Oranges, you beautiful tree between heaven and earth, were born to adapt to this soil and water.
Lyric: This is a poem about objects, ostensibly praising Chenpi, but actually the poet's confession of his ideal and personality.
This poem expresses ambition with things and describes people with things, which not only connects me with things, but also integrates the past and the present, thus creating a poem praised by Lin Yunming of A Qing Dynasty, "It seems that each sentence in two paragraphs is an orange, but the original and the orange can not be divided into two, and set each other off" ("Chu Ci Deng"). Since then, the oranges in the South China contain rich cultural connotations of "independence and love for the motherland", and people with lofty ideals have been sung and imitated by people.
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Qu Yuan was a poet and politician of Chu during the Warring States Period. He wrote many immortal poems, became the founder of China's ancient romantic poetry, and created a new poetry genre-Chu Ci on the basis of Chu folk songs. The style of "Chu Ci" initiated by him is unique in the history of China literature, and it is also called "coquettish" with the Book of Songs, which has had a positive impact on later poetry creation.
Nine Chapters of Ode to an Orange is regarded as an early work of Qu Yuan, and scholars believe that it was written by the poet when he was a diplomat in Qi State (citing the saying in Liezi that "oranges are born in Huainan but bitter oranges"). During his exile in Du Ying, he took oranges in southern China as an example to fight for festivals, and wrote this famous poem about oranges with deep affection.