Wang Yi's Preface to Nine Debates on Chapters and Sentences of Chu Ci in the Eastern Han Dynasty said: "Song was also a disciple of Qu Yuan. Min pitied his teacher's loyalty, exiled him and pretended to be a "nine arguments" to show his ambition. " This is the first person in the existing historical documents who said that Song Yu was a disciple of Qu Yuan and called Qu Yuan "his teacher".

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Song Yu (298-222 BC) was a poet of Chu State, a descendant of Song Xianggong and a native of Chu State. He is a scholar-bureaucrat in the state of Chu. Song Yu was a famous poet in the Warring States Period, who was as famous as Le Tang and Jing Ke. His works are Nine Arguments. The so-called "Xialiba people", "Yangchun Baixue" and "Qu Gao and Widow" all refer to him, and all the allusions come from him. The first emperor was twenty-five years old and died in 222 BC at the age of 76.

Regarding the life of Song Yu, according to Records of the Historian Biography of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng, "After Qu Yuan's death, Chu had followers such as Song Yu, Jing Cha, all of whom were famous for their kind words. However, all the ancestors finally dared not protest directly against Qu Yuan's calm words. The narrative is extremely brief. There is a saying in Han Shi Zhuan that "Song Yu met Chu Xiang because of his friends".