Second, the introduction:
1, Songs of the South is a new poetic style created by Qu Yuan and the first collection of romantic poems in the history of China literature. The name of "Songs of the South" existed in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty and was compiled by Liu Xiangnai. Wang Yi wrote chapters and sentences in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Qu Yuan and Song Yu, Chu people in the Warring States Period, and sixteen original poems written by Xiaoshan, Dong Fangshuo, Wang Bao and Liu Xiang in Huainan in the Han Dynasty. Later, Wang Yi added his Jiu Si to Article 17. The book is mainly based on Qu Yuan's works, and the rest are also in the form of Qu Fu. Because of its use of Chu's style, dialect phonology and local products, it has a strong local color, so it is named "Chu Ci", which has a far-reaching influence on later poems.
2. Qu Yuan (about 340 BC or 339 ~ 278 BC), a poet and politician of Chu State during the Warring States Period, was born in Danyang, Yichang City, Hubei Province. His surname was Mi, Qu, Ping and Yuan. And because the name of the cloud is regular, the spirit word is general, during the Warring States period. Chu Wuwang Xiong Tong's son Qu Xian's descendants. When I was a teenager, I was well educated, knowledgeable and ambitious. In his early years, he was trusted by Chu Huaiwang as Zuotu, and was also a doctor of San Lv, in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs. He advocated "American politics", promoting and appointing talents internally, perfecting statutes and uniting external forces to resist Qin. Slashed by nobles, he was exiled to Hanbei and Yuanxiang Valley. After General Qin attacked Ying, the capital of Chu State (now Jiangling, Hubei Province), Qu Yuan drowned in the Miluo River and died heroically.