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Who is the founder and representative author of Chu Ci, which started the tradition of "vanilla beauty"?

Qu Yuan

Qu Yuan was a great patriotic poet of Chu State during the Warring States Period, and the founder and representative author of Songs of the South, which started the tradition of "vanilla beauty". He was loyal to the monarch and patriotic, but he was framed by traitors and exiled by the king of Chu. Seeing that the country was in trouble but unable to save it, he threw himself into the Miluo River in grief and indignation.

It is said that our custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival today is to commemorate Qu Yuan.