Song Qi, a famous historian and poet in Song Dynasty, said: "Li Sao was the ancestor of Ci Fu and was written by later generations. If it is perfect, it can't be too strict or too round. " In other words, Li Sao not only opened up a vast literary field, but also was an unattainable model of China's poetry and prose.
Because of the poet's incomparable grief and passion, the whole poem is like a river, boundless. But after careful consideration, both the conception of artistic conception and the external structure reflect the poet's extraordinary artistic ingenuity.
Conceptually, this poem describes two worlds: the real world and the surreal world composed of heaven, gods, ancient figures and personified sun, moon, wind, thunder, wind and birds. This surreal fantasy world is a supplement to the real world. There is no king on the ground and no emperor in the sky; On the earth, it is "everyone strives for greed." If you can't find a comrade, you can't achieve anything if you beg for your daughter.
Li Sao is a passionate political lyric poem and an artistic masterpiece combining realism and romanticism. Some fragments in the poem reflect the historical facts at that time. However, in the performance, it completely adopts the romantic method: not only the materials of myths and legends are used, but also a large number of figurative methods are used to express feelings with flowers and birds, "taking feelings as the inside, taking things as the table, and being depressed and resentful" (Liu Zawen). The deployment of vehicles in the figurative symbols used by poets is based on the inheritance of traditional culture, which always gives people a feeling of endless meaning.