What are the characteristics of the style of Chu Ci?

The style of Chu Rhetoric is poetry, which is full of the author's thoughts and feelings and rich imagination, the language is cohesive and figurative, with distinctive rhythms, harmonious rhythms, rich in musical beauty, and the statements are generally arranged in lines, focusing on the beauty of the structural form. 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 has rich feelings and imagination.

3. The language of poetry is characterized by conciseness, image, tonal harmony and distinctive rhythm, and the language has musical beauty.

4. In form, poetry is not a unit of sentence, but a unit of line, and the lines are mainly based on rhythm, not on meaning.

Expanded:

The Chu Rhetoric is recognized as a monument of poetry alongside the Poetry Classic, which created a new poetic style and played an extremely important role in the development of poetry. The Chu Rhetoric is a groundbreaking break from the four-syllable, chapter-and-chapter style of the Classic of Poetry.

The Chu Rhetoric enriched the subject matter of poetry and expanded the field of poetic expression. For example, the poems of inviting the hidden and traveling to the immortals were bred directly from the Chu Rhetoric, and the poems of political chanting, etc., were also greatly influenced by the Chu Rhetoric.

Most importantly, the Chu Ci created a literary tradition in the poetry world, and the schools of poetry that are now regarded as "Romanticism" were all inspired by it without exception, and drew spiritual and artistic nourishment from it. The works of Qu Yuan, Ruan Ji, Li Bai, and even Gong Zizhen are the embodiment of this romantic style of poetry.