Chu Ci is the earliest collection of romantic poems and the source of romantic literature. The name "Chu Ci" first appeared in Records of the Historian and Biography of Corrupt Officials. It can be seen that this name already existed in the early Han Dynasty at the latest. Its original meaning refers to Chu Ci, which later became a proper noun, and refers to the new poetic style represented by Qu Yuan's creation during the Warring States Period.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang sorted out the works of Qu Yuan and Song Yu, and the works of Xiaoshan, Dong Fangshuo, Bao Wang and Liu Xiang in Huainan in the Han Dynasty, with a total of 16 articles named "Songs of the South". It is the ancestor of the set. Later, Wang Yi added his Jiu Si to Article 17.
They are: Li Sao, Jiu Ge, Tian Wen, Jiu Zhang, Yuanyou, Buju, Fisherman, Jiu Bian, Evocation, Grand Tactics, Xi Shi, Recruit Hermit, Seven admonitions and Mourning. This seventeen-article chapter structure has become a popular reading for later generations.
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1, Liu Xiang
Liu Xiang (about 77-6 BC) was a historian, bibliographer and writer in the Western Han Dynasty. [65]? . His real name was changed to Peng Chengpei (now Pei County, Jiangsu Province). Grandson of King Jiao Liu IV of Chu Yuan in the Han Dynasty. Managing the Biography of Spring and Autumn Valley Liang is also good at Zuo Zhuan. He used to be an exhortation doctor and Zong Zheng. With the disaster in the world of Yin and Yang, he attached himself to the current politics and wrote many times to illegally exert the autocracy of eunuchs and consorts.
When he became emperor, he served as doctor Guanglu and a captain in Zhong Lei. He once reviewed a batch of books and wrote Bielu, the originator of China's bibliography. And "Songs of the South". There are thirty-three pieces of ci and fu, and there are many missing today. Only nine sighs is the last song. The original collection has been lost, which was compiled by Liu in Ming Dynasty.
2. Wang Yi
Wang Yi was a writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Zishu was born in Yicheng, Nanjun (now Hubei). Andy is the school bookkeeper and Shun Di is an official. Chapters and Sentences of Songs of the South of China is the earliest complete annotation of Songs of the South of China, which is highly valued by later scholars.
He wrote 2 1 essays on Fu, Fu, Books and Theory, and 123 Chinese poems, but many of them have been lost. Jiu Si is written in memory of Qu Yuan and exists in the chapters and sentences of Songs of the South. The original collection has been lost, and Wang Shushi's Collection was compiled in Ming Dynasty.
3. Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan (about 340 BC-278 BC) was a poet of Chu in the Warring States Period. The name is flat and the word is original; He also claimed that his name was formal and his words were even. The nobles of Chu in the Warring States Period. At first, I assisted Wang Huai, and as a left disciple, Dr. San Lv. He is well-read, and advocates that it should be stipulated clearly and that talents should be rewarded. He is allied with Qi in the east and rejected Qiang Qin in the west. Later, he was pushed out by the nobles Zilan and Shanxi merchants.
Qing Xiang was exiled after he became king, and he wandered in Yuan and Xiang river basins for a long time. Later, because the politics of Chu was more corrupt, Xianying was attacked by Qin Jun, unable to save the peril of Chu, and deeply felt that the political ideal could not be realized, so he died in Miluo River.
His works include Li Sao, Nine Chapters and Nine Songs. Among them, Li Sao and other systems are grand, which are significantly different from the Book of Songs and have a great influence on later generations. All his works handed down from ancient times are preserved in Liu Xiang's Collection of Songs of the South. Han Shu Literature and Art Annals also includes 20 Qu Yuan Fu. The book has long been lost, so it is impossible to make a detailed textual research on whether the content is different from the Songs of the South.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Chu Ci (China's First Romantic Poetry Collection)