When and where did Chuci rise?

Chuci is a poetic style that rose in Chu during the Warring States Period.

Chu Ci is the earliest collection of romantic poems and the source of romantic literature. The name "Chu Ci" first appeared in Records of the Historian and Biography of Corrupt Officials. It can be seen that this name already existed in the early Han Dynasty at the latest. Its original meaning refers to Chu Ci in general, and later becomes a proper name, which refers to the new poetic style represented by Qu Yuan's creation during the Warring States Period. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang sorted out the works of Qu Yuan and Song Yu, and the works of Xiaoshan, Dong Fangshuo, Bao Wang and Liu Xiang in Huainan in the Han Dynasty, with a total of 16 articles named "Songs of the South". It is the ancestor of the set. Later, Wang Yi added his Jiu Si to Article 17. They are: Li Sao, Jiu Ge, Tian Wen, Jiu Zhang, Yuanyou, Buju, Fisherman, Jiu Bian, Evocation, Grand Tactics, Xi Shi, Recruit Hermit, Seven admonitions and Mourning. This seventeen-article chapter structure has become a popular reading for later generations.

The Songs of Chu describes the mountains, rivers, people and historical customs of Chu with the dialect phonology of Chu (now Hunan and Hubei), which has a strong regional cultural color. As Huang, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said, "All books are written in Chu language, and Chu sounds are written, and Chu knows everything" (Notes on the East View). The book is mainly based on Qu Yuan's works, and other articles also inherit the form of Qu Fu, with unrestrained feelings and strange imagination. Compared with the simple four-character poems in The Book of Songs, the sentence patterns of Chu Ci are more vivid, and sometimes Chu dialect is used in sentences, which is more suitable for expressing rich and complicated thoughts and feelings.