The author of "The Road is Long and the Road Has Distance" is Qu Yuan, and it comes from "Li Sao".
"The road is long and far away, I will search up and down" comes from the 97th sentence of Qu Yuan's "Li Sao". The general idea is: The road to pursuing ideals is long and far away, but I will not stop pursuing my ideals. The poet also used these two sentences to express his unswerving determination to pursue his ideals. Qu Yuan's "searching" spirit has become a noble spirit believed in and pursued by people with lofty ideals in later generations.
Detailed introduction of the author
Qu Yuan was a great patriotic poet in Chinese history, the founder of Chinese romantic literature, the founder and representative writer of "Chu Ci", and opened up a new era of poetry. The tradition of "Vanilla Beauty" is known as the "ancestor of Chu Ci". The famous Ci and Fu writers in Chu State, Song Yu, Tang Le and Jing Zai, were all influenced by Qu Yuan.
The emergence of Qu Yuan's works marks that Chinese poetry has entered a new era from elegant singing to romantic originality. His main works include "Li Sao", "Nine Songs", "Nine Chapters", "Heavenly Questions", etc. The Songs of Chu, with Qu Yuan's works as the main body, is one of the sources of Chinese romantic literature and has had a profound impact on later generations of poetry.