Songs of the South were edited by Liu Xiang and written by Qu Yuan.
Introduction of Songs of the South:
Songs of the South is a new poetic style created by Qu Yuan, and it is also the first collection of romantic poems in the history of China literature. The name of "Chuci" existed in the early Western Han Dynasty, and it was edited by Liu Xiangnai. Wang Yi wrote chapters in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The original collection of Qu Yuan and Song Yu, Chu people in the Warring States Period, and sixteen poems written by Huainan Xiaoshan, Dong Fangshuo, Wang Bao and Liu Xiang in the Han Dynasty. Later, Wang Yi added his own Jiu Si into seventeen articles.
The whole book is mainly based on Qu Yuan's works, and the other articles are also in the form of Qu Fu. Because of its use of the literary style, dialect rhyme and local products of Chu (note: today's Hunan and Hubei areas), it has a strong local color, hence the name "Chu Ci", which has a far-reaching impact on later poetry. "Songs of the South" has experienced the creation of Qu Yuan's works, the imitation after bending, the collection in the early Han Dynasty, and the collection by Liu Xiang.
The book should be written between 26 BC and 6 BC. Liu Xiang's original book "Songs of the South" died early, and later generations can only trace back and guess the original appearance indirectly through Wang Yi's "Songs of the South" (the original book is also missing) and Song Hongxingzu's "Supplement to Songs of the South" (the supplement to Songs of the South).
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The influence of The Songs of the South:
The Songs of the South are of unusual significance to the whole cultural system of China, especially in literature, because they created the poems of China's romantic literature, so later generations called this style "The Songs of the South" and "Sao". The four genres of poetry, novel, prose and drama all exist in different degrees. The discipline that studies the Songs of the South (Songs of the South) and its research history is now called "Songs of the South".
From its beginning to the Han Dynasty, it flourished in the Song Dynasty, and it became a prominent school in China's classical cultural halls in modern times. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Songs of the South flowed into Japanese and other "Confucian-Chinese cultural circles", and after the 16th century, it even flowed into Europe. By the 19th century, the songs of Chu attracted wide attention in Europe and America, and a large number of translations and research works appeared in various languages. In the international sinology field, the songs of Chu have always been one of the research hotspots.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Chu Ci (China's first collection of romantic poems)