Chu Ci s literary contributions? What is the literary significance of Chu Ci?

"Chu Ci", also known as "Chu Ci", is a poetic style created by Qu Yuan, a great poet of the Warring States Period. The work uses the literary style and dialect rhyme of Chu (now the area of the two lakes) to describe the mountains and rivers, characters and historical customs of Chu, and has strong local characteristics. During the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang compiled Qu Yuan's works and Song Yu's works "inherited from Qu Fu" into a collection called "Chu Ci".

And became the successor to the Book of Songs

Later, a collection of poems that had a profound impact on Chinese literature.

Chu Ci, whose original meaning refers to the words of Chu, was gradually fixed into two meanings: one is the genre of poetry, and the other is the name of the poetry collection (to a certain extent, it also represents the literature of Chu). In terms of poetry genre, it is a new poetic genre created by poets represented by Qu Yuan in the late Warring States period on the basis of Chu folk songs.

In terms of the name of the collection, it is a collection of poems in the style of "Chu Ci" compiled by Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty on the basis of his predecessors, including the works of Qu Yuan and Song Yu of the Chu people of the Warring States Period, as well as the imitation works of Jia Yi, Huainan Xiaoshan, Zhuang Ji, Dongfang Shuo, Wang Bao and Liu Xiang in the Han Dynasty.

The name of "Chu Ci" was first seen in "Historical Records: The Biography of Zhang Tang". It can be seen that this name existed in the early Han Dynasty at the latest. Its original meaning was to refer to the lyrics of Chu in general, and it became a special term later, referring to the new poetry style represented by the creation of Qu Yuan of Chu during the Warring States Period.

This style of poetry has a strong regional cultural color, as Huang Bosi of the Song Dynasty said, "all books are Chu language, Chu sound, Ji Chu land, and famous Chu things" ("Dongguan Yu Commentary").

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang compiled the works of Qu Yuan and Song Yu, as well as the works of the Han Dynasty people who imitated this poetic style, and the title of the book was "Chu Ci". This is another collection of poems with far-reaching influence in ancient China after the Book of Songs. In addition, because of Qu Yuan's "Lisao".

It is the representative work of Chu Ci, so Chu Ci is also called "Sao" or "Sao". The people of the Han Dynasty also generally referred to Chu Ci as "Fu". "Historical Records".

It has been said that Qu Yuan "made "Huaisha".

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There are also names such as "Qu Yuanfu" and "Song Yufu".

In the Han Dynasty, Chu Ci was also known as Ci or Cifu. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang compiled the works of Qu Yuan and Song Yu and Huainan Xiaoshan, Dongfang Shuo, Wang Bao, Liu Xiang and others in the Han Dynasty to imitate Qu Yuan and Song Yu, a total of 16 works, which were named "Chu Ci". Chu Ci then became the name of the poetry collection.

Because Qu Yuan's "Lisao" is the representative work of "Chu Ci", Chu Ci is also called "Sao" or "Sao Body".

The first collection of romantic poetry in Chinese history, opening up a precedent for this kind of romantic poetry. ··

The production of Chu Ci made ancient poetry enter a new stage from collective creation to independent creation of poets, realized the major emancipation of poetic language and style, created a lyrical image with distinctive personality, and opened up the road of romanticism of ancient poetry.

The Book of Poetry is the earliest collection of poetry in China, allowing people to understand the life of people at that time of labor, sacrifice, love and marriage, Chu Ci is a poetry genre created by Qu Yuan using the Chu dialect, and has become a literary work with romantic characteristics.

The Book of Songs is the glorious starting point of Chinese realist literature. Because of its rich content and high intellectual and artistic achievements, it occupies an important position in the cultural history of China and the world.

The Book of Songs has a lofty position and far-reaching influence in the history of Chinese literature, laying the fine tradition of Chinese poetry, and the national characteristics of Chinese poetry art have been formed from this.

The Book of Poetry is based on the real life of society, there is no vanity and grotesque, there are very few supernatural myths, the description of sacrifices, feasts, and agricultural affairs is the product of the social economy and ritual culture of the Zhou Dynasty, and the description of the current political style, war and servitude, marriage and love, shows the political situation, social life, customs and folk feelings of the Zhou Dynasty, and the spiritual tradition of "the hungry sing about their food, and the laborers sing about their affairs" has been inherited and carried forward by later generations.

Chu Ci has had an extremely profound and extensive impact on the development of Chinese literature, and it exists in almost every literary field and in different genres of literature to varying degrees.

Chu Ci is recognized as a monument of poetry alongside the Book of Songs, which creates a new poetic style and plays an extremely important role in the development of poetry. First of all, "Chu Ci" pioneered the four-word style of the "Book of Songs" and repeated chapters and rhymes; Secondly, "Chu Ci" enriches the subject matter of poetry and expands the field of expression of poetry.

The founder of Chu Ci is Liu Xiangchengji, and Wang Yi of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote chapters and sentences. Chu Ci is the first collection of romantic poetry in the history of Chinese literature, and the whole book is dominated by Qu Yuan's works, and the rest of the poems are also inherited from Qu Fu. With its use of Chudi's literary style, dialect rhyme and local products, it has a strong local color.

Chu Ci has unusual significance to the entire Chinese cultural system, especially in literature, Chu Ci created the poems of Chinese romantic literature, so later generations called this style of writing "Chu Ci style" and "Sao style". The four major genres of poetry, **, prose, and drama all exist to varying degrees.

As early as the Tang Dynasty, Chu Ci flowed into Japan and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle, and after the 16th century, it even flowed into Europe. By the 19th century, Chu Ci had attracted wide attention in Europe and the United States, and a large number of translations and research works in various languages appeared, and Chu Ci has always been one of the hot spots of research in the international sinology community.