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Qu Yuan was a great poet in ancient China. What he composed is the masterpiece of Chu Rhetoric, which is the source of the creation of what in the history of China's literature

Qu Ping: (ca. 340 - ca. 278 BC) the word Yuan, usually called Qu Yuan; Mi surname Qu. Also since the cloud name Zhengze, the word Lingjun, Han nationality, the end of the Warring States period, Chu Danyang (present-day Hunan Xiangxi) people, Chu King Wu Xiongtong's son of the descendants of the Qu flaw. Although Qu Yuan was loyal to King Huai of Chu, he was repeatedly ostracized, and after the death of King Huai, he was exiled because King Hai Xiang listened to slander, and finally died on May 5 by throwing himself into Miluo River. Qu Yuan is one of the greatest romantic poets in China, the earliest known famous poet in China, and a world cultural celebrity. He created the genre of "Chu Rhetoric" and the tradition of "Vanilla Beauty" with no content. His representative works include "Li Sao" (离骚) and "Qu Yuan's Life" (屈原的身世). The material of Qu Yuan's life is recorded in the earlier and more specific biography of Qu Yuan (屈原列传). Of course, there are also occasional omissions or misremembering of historical facts in the biographies. The Nine Songs, The Heavenly Questions, and so on. In order to May 5 as a day to commemorate Qu Yuan commonly known as the Dragon Boat Festival. Qu Yuan's works, after the establishment of the Han Dynasty in the Chu capital Guanzhong, will have a greater impact, "Chu rhetoric" continues to learn and develop, the literature of the north gradually Chu. The emerging poems in five or seven lines were all related to Chusuo. The Han Dynasty fugue writers are all affected by "Chu rhetoric", after the Han "Shao Sao" works, all generations, the author often use Qu Yuan's poems to express their own chest block, and even Qu Yuan's encounter with the self-metaphors, which is a direct development of Qu Yuan's literature.