Why did few people write Qu Yuan before Sima Qian wrote The Biography of Qu Yuan ?

In fact, there has always been a lot of controversy about Qu Yuan in the academic community. Is there such a person as Qu Yuan? What is his background? Did he write works such as "Lisao"? In fact, there is no real and reliable historical evidence to prove these problems.

Before the historical records, almost no one mentioned Qu Yuan in the classics, and Sima Qian's writing of Qu Yuan was basically based on folk oral legends, so it can be said that the historical records are the first book in the history of Chinese literature to form the name "Qu Yuan" into written materials and put forward it publicly.

Some scholars believe that it cannot be ruled out that because there is no such person as Qu Yuan (there may be a person with such a background and who wrote these works, but his name is not necessarily "Qu Yuan"), no one mentioned "Qu Yuan" before the historical records.

Because Qu Yuan was not widely known at that time, and most of the people in the past didn't like to write very much, and they didn't want to write if they knew, so no one wrote about him.

There were very few people who wrote about it before the historical records. At that time, there were more subset scriptures.

Sima Qian's evaluation of Qu Yuan in Qu Yuan's biography is as follows:

Sima Qian's sentence in "The Biography of Qu Yuan" spoke highly of his rhetoric and ambitions: Words: Qu Ping's work "Lisao", covering self-resentment, called Emperor Yu at the top, Qi Huan at the bottom, and Tang and Wu in the middle, in order to stab the world.

The breadth of morality and the coherence of chaos are inexhaustible. Its writing, its rhetoric, its ambition, and its integrity.

It is said that the text is small but its reference is huge, and the analogy is far-reaching. Zhixing: its Zhijie is clean, so it is called Wufang; His deeds are incorruptible, so he will not tolerate death.

From the dredging sludge, the cicada molts in the turbidity, floats outside the dust, does not get the dirt of the world, and the mud does not drain. Push this ambition also, although it can compete with the sun and the moon.

The Biography of Qu Yuan is an excerpt from "Historical Records: The Biography of Qu Yuan Jia Sheng", which is a biography of a character with a unique style. The Records of the Historian is the first general history of China's biographical style, which records the history of about 3,000 years from the legendary Yellow Emperor to the first four years of the Han Emperor. The biography is used to record the deeds of people other than the emperor.

Sima Qian was degraded because Qu Yuan and Jia Yi were both literary scholars, and they were both talented, and Jia Yi's "Hanging Qu Yuanfu" caused him to sigh again, so Qu Yuan and Jia Yi wrote a biography. The ancient books before the Qin Dynasty did not record Qu Yuan's life and deeds, and the biography of "Historical Records" is the earliest and most complete document that records Qu Yuan's deeds.

Wang Shirenzhi: "For the left disciple", "If you enter, you will discuss state affairs with Wang Tu, and give orders; When you go out, you will meet the guests and deal with the princes". (Left disciple:.)

Chu official name. It is equivalent to the doctor and inferior to Ling Yin. It was a very important position to participate in political affairs around the king and to draft edicts).

Qu Yuan is a very famous poet, he left a lot of works, such as Lisao is very famous; Although Sima Qian's evaluation is competing with the sun and the moon, this is a very high evaluation.

Qu Yuan is a patriotic poet, his patriotic feelings have touched generations, Sima Qian's evaluation of Qu Yuan is also in this regard, and everyone recognizes his patriotic feelings very much.

Qu Yuan should have contributed to the development of Chinese literary history, and Sima Qian felt that Qu Yuan was a great patriotic poet, and very realistic.

Qu Yuan wrote "Lisao", and Sima Qian's "Historical Records" commented on Qu Yuan's praise of his patriotism and upright and noble character.

Sima Qian said in "Historical Records": "Yu read "Lisao", "Tianwen", "Conjuring" and "Lamentation", and was sad. Suitable for Changsha, looking at Qu Yuan's self-sinking abyss, he did not taste weeping, and wanted to see his people. He felt that Qu Yuan was the leader of the great literary spirit.

In Sima Qian's historical records, it is said that Qu Yuan's ability is very strong, he treats others very well, and can deal with others well.

Sima Qian's feelings for Qu Yuan are complicated. He admired Qu Yuan for being able to commit suicide, but he himself was humiliated by the palace torture and could not commit suicide, and there were inner struggles and contradictions in it. Therefore, the whole biography describing Qu Yuan is Sima Qian's personal emotional catharsis.

Sima Qian's evaluation of Qu Yuan is more reasonable and comprehensive than that of Ban Gu, compared with Yan Zhitui, and Guo Moruo. Indeed, in the late Warring States period in which Qu Yuan lived, reunification had become the basic style of historical development, and any historical figure who promoted reunification left a mark in the book of historical merits. Zhang Yi was called a "man of danger" (a sinister and treacherous person) by Sima Qian, but he was praised by history as a "vertical and horizontal family" and became an important figure in the unification of the Qin state.

Not reused by the rulers, politically frustrated, suffering great tribulations, having great ambitions, and achieving a generation of classics.

Both of them wrote epic masterpieces, both went down in history, they were positive characters, fate was ruthless to both of them, they both fought for the regime that hurt them, and they never regretted it.

They are all literati.

Both wrote a book Historical Records Lisao.

Both are famous in history.

Both of them had unfortunate memories, so they both wrote books in anger.