What is Chu Ci? What are its artistic characteristics?

Chu Ci, also known as "Chu Ci", was a great poet Qu Yuan of the Warring States Period.

A poetic genre created. 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. It is also the first collection of romantic poetry in China.

Artistic characteristics: one is the genre of the poem, and the other is the name of the poetry collection (to a certain extent, it also represents the state of Chu.

Literature). Chu Ci's creative technique is romantic, it is emotional, the imagination is peculiar, and it has a strong local characteristics and mythological color of the Chu State. Compared with the quaint four-character poems of the Book of Songs, the sentence structure of Chu Ci is more lively, and the Chu dialect is sometimes used in the sentences, which is unique in rhythm and rhyme, and is more suitable for expressing rich and complex thoughts and feelings.

What is Chu Ci about?

One. The name of Chu Ci.

Chu Ciyi is the name of the poem, which refers to a poetic style used by the Chu people represented by Qu Yuan in the Warring States Period, and is a new poetic style after the Book of Songs. One is the name of the poetry collection, when the Western Han Dynasty became the emperor, Liu Xiang sorted out the ancient documents, the works of Qu Yuan and Song Yu in the Warring States Period and the similar works of Huainan Xiaoshan, Dongfang Shuo, Wang Bao, Liu Xiang and others in the Han Dynasty A total of 16 articles were compiled into a collection, and the collection was called "Chu Ci". Later, Wang Yi of the Eastern Han Dynasty added another article to his own work, which became seventeen articles, called "Chu Ci Chapters and Sentences".

The whole book is dominated by Qu Yuan's works, and the rest of the works also inherit the form of Qu Yuan.

Two. Characteristics of Chu Ci.

As a poetic genre, Chu Ci is rich in imagination. The witch style of Chu is prevalent, and the witches are often used to play the gods during the sacrifice, and some myths and legends are performed to entertain the gods. All these have cultivated the rich imagination of the Chu people, so that the works have rich imagination, gorgeous rhetoric, and gorgeous romantic style, such as "Lisao" and "Nine Songs".

Chu Ci "all books and Chu language, as Chu sound, Ji Chu land, name Chu things [1]", has a strong local color. The sentences of Chu Ci are uneven and full of variations, and the commonly used auxiliary words "Xi", "some", etc. And the structure is generally grander, and the length is generally longer.

Three. Characteristics of the fisherman.

And the fisherman is a hermit who knows how to go with the passage of time, be at peace with what happens, and know his fate with joy. He saw through the disturbances of the world, but he never avoided it, but was at ease, pinning his sentiments on the endless nature, and maintaining the discipline of his personality in the midst of casual self-comfort.

The style of "Chu Ci" is poetry, the poem is full of the author's thoughts and feelings and rich imagination, the language is concise and vivid, with a distinct rhythm, harmonious rhyme, rich in beauty, sentences are generally arranged in lines, and the beauty of structural form is emphasized. It has the following four characteristics:

1. The content of poetry is a highly concentrated and generalized reflection of social life.

2. Poetry is lyrical and eloquent, with rich feelings and imagination.

3. The language of poetry has the characteristics of refinement, image, harmonious tone, and distinct rhythm.

4. In terms of form, poetry is not based on sentences, but on actions, and the lines are mainly based on rhythm, rather than meaning.

First, from the style of poetry, exaggeration, and rich imagination, are the common characteristics of Chu Ci.

Second, from the style of speech, compared with the "Book of Songs", the length of Chu Ci has increased greatly, and the sentence structure has also changed from four words to length and shortness, and it is uneven.

3. In terms of language, Chu Ci mostly uses Chu language and Chu sound, and a large number of dialect words in Chu have emerged, in addition, the words "Xi" and "some" have become a distinctive symbol of Chu Ci as imaginary words and exclamations.

Chu Ci: 1During the Warring States Period, the Chu poet Qu Yuan created a new poetry genre - Chu Ci based on southern folk songs and using the Chu dialect.

Qu Yuan's long lyrical poem "Lisao", with a romantic style, is a representative work of Chu Ci, so Chu Ci is also called"Detachment"。

2.Chu Ci is a form of poetry that arose in Chu during the Warring States Period, also known as "Chu Ci". The work uses the literary style, dialect rhyme and rhyme of Chu (now Hunan, Hubei, and Anhui) to describe the mountains and rivers of Chu and the historical customs, which has strong local characteristics.

3.The syntax of Chu Ci is uneven, flexible and changing, the rhetoric is gorgeous, and the duality is ingenious.

Words as linings. Warring states.

Chu Quyuan absorbed its nutrients and created "Lisao" and other masterpieces, which were imitated by later generations and succeeded by famous works, becoming a kind of literary work with characteristics, commonly known as Chu.

Words. Western han dynasty. Liu Xiangcheng's "Chu Ci" collection, Eastern Han Dynasty.

Wang Yi has made some gains, and the chapters are annotated into "Chu Ci Chapters and Sentences".