What are the two sources of China's ancient poetry? They are collectively called Li Sao.

China's ancient poetry originated from The Book of Songs, a representative of realism, and Chu Ci, a representative of romanticism, which are collectively called Li Sao (or coquettish).

The word coquettish comes from The Book of Songs and Songs of the South, and is also commonly used in common sayings to describe a person's frivolous behavior. This meaning has nothing to do with the Book of Songs and Songs of the South, but with illness. According to the textual research of Yun Gong's "Seven-year itch, how coquettish".

The word "Sao" has two meanings in modern Chinese. One is positive, describing a person's unique achievements in a certain field, such as "leading the way", which comes from Guo Feng in The Book of Songs and Li Sao in The Songs of the South.

Another meaning of coquettish is somewhat negative, which describes that a person (usually a woman) does not behave well in behavior and is not implicit in the expression of sexual orientation. The source of the latter meaning of coquettish has nothing to do with elegant art such as The Book of Songs and Songs of the South, and it is hard for ordinary people to imagine that the coquettish style with some problems actually comes from the description of diseases.

The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, which collected poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty (1 1 century) to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (6th century BC) for about 500 years. Chu Ci is the first poetry anthology written by China. They are the brilliant crystallization of the northern Central Plains culture and the southern Chu culture in the pre-Qin period, respectively, and are the sources of the two fine traditions of realism and romanticism in the history of China's poetry.