Is Chu Ci a poem?

First of all, Chu Ci must be a poem in a general sense. Because it is represented by Li Sao, it is called "Sao"; The Book of Songs is also called "wind" because of its "national style" and "coquettish".

Here are some information about your question.

1. In ancient times, phonology was still immature, but Chu Ci developed from the folk songs of Chu (South), and the pronunciation of some auxiliary words was different from that of the Central Plains. For example, "you" is equivalent to "Luo" in modern folk songs, which belongs to the habit of Chu people; "Only" reading zhǐ expresses a sigh. The Book of Songs is also useful, for example, "Mothers are natural, and I will not forgive others!" . Some works change rhyme halfway, and the concept of rhyme change is not a later definition, but a smooth one. The sentence patterns of these works are mostly neat and gorgeous.

2. A few works can't read "poetic flavor" according to people's habits, which is related to the later development of poetry. Later, with the development of phonology, ancient-style metrical poems appeared, which abandoned the scattered and complete Chu Ci system and highlighted neatness. However, Sao style is not "prose" in the broad sense of ancient Chinese, and its paragraphs and sentence patterns are still neat, not ordinary classical Chinese.

3. In the development of literature, Chu Ci was inherited and developed by later generations in another form, namely "Fu". Fu is also a kind of verse, which uses a lot of parallel prose and is arranged in an extremely neat, gorgeous and catchy way. For example, in Fisherman: "The world is muddy, why not spit its mud and make waves?" Everyone is drunk, why not feed them and lick them? "Is the predecessor of compound sentence.