The road is long and long, and I will search up and down." From Qu Yuan's "Li Sao" "The road is long and long, and I will search up and down." Author: Qu Yuan (340 BC - BC) 278), a poet and politician of the Chu State during the Warring States Period. His surname was Mi, his given name was Ping, and his given name was Yuan; , the descendant of Qu Xia, the son of King Wu of Chu Xiong Tong, is the first great patriotic poet in Chinese history and the founder of Chinese romantic literature. He is known as the "ancestor of Chinese poetry" and "the emergence of poetry". , marking that Chinese poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality.
First of all, this famous line comes from "Li Sao" by Qu Yuan, the great patriotic poet "the ancestor of Chu Ci". He was rich in knowledge, knowledgeable and ambitious. Internally, he advocated the promotion of talents and the establishment of laws and regulations. Externally, he advocated uniting Qi to resist Qin. Because he was slandered by the nobles, he was exiled to northern Han Dynasty and the Yuanxiang River Basin. Qu Yuan's life was chaotic. When his ambitions were not realized, he poured his lingering sentiments into poetry.
The emergence of Qu Yuan's works had a profound impact on later generations of poetry. After the Qin army broke through, he sank into the Miluo River and died in the Chu Kingdom. In 1953, on the 2230th anniversary of Qu Yuan's death, the World Peace Council passed a resolution and designated Qu Yuan as one of the four major cultural celebrities in the world.
Qu Yuan was a descendant of Qu Xia, the son of King Xiong Tong of Chu State during the Warring States Period of our country. He was a great patriotic poet in Chinese history. He was well educated, knowledgeable and successful in his youth. In his early years, he served as Zuotu and Sanlu officials, and was also in charge of domestic and foreign affairs. He advocated appointing talents internally, strictly enforcing laws and regulations, and united Qi to resist Qin externally. However, he was excluded and framed by the old elite of Chu State, and was exiled to the Han Dynasty. North and the Yuanxiang River Basin. After the Chu State's Yingdu was conquered by the Qin Army, he sank into the Miluo River and died for his country.
Qu Yuan's fate is closely linked to that of the Chu State. Upright and unyielding, he worked tirelessly for the prosperity of the country. He once implemented the "reform" in Chu State and fought against the decadent old forces. As a result, he was slandered, demoted, and exiled.
A few years after he was reactivated for some reason, he was idle because he repeatedly admonished King Huai. He continued to persuade King Huai through others to "join Qi" (union with Qi). In the eleventh year of King Nan of Zhou, Qu Yuan was again dismissed. Wandering North.
In the thirteenth year of King Nan of Zhou (302 BC), Chu was attacked by Qi, Wei, and Han. At the request of King Huai of Chu, King Qin took Prince Huai as a hostage. He sent troops to repel the armies of the Three Kingdoms. The following year, Prince Chu killed a Qin minister and fled back to Chu privately. This incident angered the King of Qin, which led to Qin's continuous attacks on Chu. King Huai of Chu listened to the slander, which greatly damaged the interests of Chu State, which was intolerable to honest people, so Qu Yuan wrote "Li Sao" out of sorrow and anger. "Li Sao" is one of Qu Yuan's masterpieces, and it is based on Qu Yuan's own experience. , ideals, sorrows and joys, honors and disgrace, and even the whole life. It is a magnificent poem with infinite personality charm. It is Qu Yuan's most important work.
In 278 BC, when he saw that a large area of ??Chu State was captured by Qin State, he was extremely depressed and completely desperate. Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
Qu Yuan used his life to give a good interpretation of this sentence. The light of his thoughts is like the bright moon in the sky, forever shining in the starry sky of history.