Why did The Book of Songs and Songs of the South form two different styles?

Three hundred years after The Book of Songs, China's literary world was almost shrouded in the glory of prose, and poetry was always in a silent period. It was the poet Qu Yuan and his descendants who broke the silence. Together, they created a new style poem with Chu local characteristics, which was later called Chu Ci.

The songs in the south are very different from the Book of Songs. Personally, there are the following differences:

1. belongs to individual creation rather than collective singing;

2. Romanticism rather than realism;

3. Pay attention to subjective lyricism rather than natural realism;

4. Represent the scenery in the south instead of the scenery in the north;

5 is a symbol of the whole rather than a single metaphor;

6. The sentence pattern is clever miscellaneous words rather than rigid four words;

The seventh chapter is a giant system with a grand structure, not a short chapter that repeats itself;

8 style is gorgeous and elegant rather than natural and simple;

9 has distinctive local characteristics.

On the stylistic features of Chu Ci.

1. Poetic style and rich imagination are the common characteristics of Chu Ci. For example, Li Sao is full of absurd imagination and repeatedly expresses true feelings.

2. Stylistically, compared with The Book of Songs, the length of The Songs of Chu has greatly increased, and the sentence pattern has changed from four characters to unlimited and uneven.

3. As far as language is concerned, Chu dialect is mostly used in Songs of Chu, and there are a large number of dialect words in Chu. In addition, "xi" and "some" as function words have also become a distinctive symbol of Chu Ci.