Chu Ci is a collection of Chu Ci in China during the Warring States Period, and the second collection of poems in China history after The Book of Songs. Like The Book of Songs, it became the source of the development of China ancient poetry in the next two thousand years.
The works use Chu's writing style and dialect rhyme to describe Chu's mountains and rivers and historical customs, which has strong local characteristics. Liu Xiang compared Qu Yuan's works with those of Song Yu and others in Han Dynasty. Inherit Qu Fu? His works were edited into a collection called Songs of the South.
Chu Ci, the lyric poetry of Chu people, is a new genre of China's poetry, which originated in Chu at the end of the Warring States Period. This is China's first romantic poetry collection of China. Although it has experienced a long historical baptism, the songs of Chu are still enduring.
Qu Yuan, Ping Ming, an aristocrat of Chu State, used to be a doctor in San Lv and an apprentice in Chu Huaiwang. He is loyal to the monarch and patriotic, and advocates joint Qin. He was framed by the aristocratic group. He was exiled to Jiangnan twice and later died in Miluo River. His major works include Li Sao, Nine Songs, Nine Questions, Nine Chapters, and Evocation, among which romanticism is strong, which is of extraordinary significance to the whole cultural system of China. Li Sao, with its rich literary and emotional characteristics, represents the highest level of literary creation at the end of the Warring States Period, and Chuci is therefore loved by later generations and has become a famous piece sung for a hundred years.
The appearance of Chu Ci broke the silence after the Book of Songs for two or three centuries, and made it shine brilliantly in the poetry circle. Therefore, later generations called The Book of Songs and Songs of the South coquettish, and the four major genres of poetry, novel, prose and drama all existed to varying degrees, which is also the reason why Songs of the South have been enduring for so many years.