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  2. Qu Yuan - Wikipedia

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    Qu Yuan is the only person in the whole of Chinese history who is fully entitled to be called 'the people's poet'." [19] Guo Moruo's 1942 play Qu Yuan [20] gave him similar treatment, drawing parallels to Hamlet and King Lear. [18]

  3. Li Sao - Wikipedia

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    The poem "Li Sao" is in the Chuci collection and is traditionally attributed to Qu Yuan [a] of the Kingdom of Chu, who died about 278 BCE.. Qu Yuan manifests himself in a poetic character, in the tradition of Classical Chinese poetry, contrasting with the anonymous poetic voices encountered in the Shijing and the other early poems which exist as preserved in the form of incidental ...

  4. Song of Phoenix - Wikipedia

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    It tells the story of Qu Yuan, a Chinese poet and government official known for his accomplishments during the Warring States Era. In the fictionalized dramatization, Qu Yuan falls in love with a slave girl named Mo Chou Nu. Their love is a forbidden romance, which is complicated by palace politics and the affairs of the nation.

  5. Dragon Boat Festival - Wikipedia

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    The relationship between zongzi, Qu Yuan and the Dragon Boat Festival first appeared during the early Han dynasty. [20] The stories of both Qu Yuan and Wu Zixu were recorded in Sima Qian's Shiji, completed 187 and 393 years after the respective events, because historians wanted to praise both characters.

  6. Heavenly Questions - Wikipedia

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    Of all the poems attributed to Qu Yuan, "Tianwen" contains more myths than any of the other pieces which may be attributed to him; however, due to the formal structure of "Tianwen" as a series of questions, information regarding the myths alluded to appear more as a series of allusive fragments than as cohesively narrated stories. [1] According ...

  7. Chu Ci - Wikipedia

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    The Chu Ci, variously translated as Verses of Chu, Songs of Chu, or Elegies of Chu, is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry including works traditionally attributed mainly to Qu Yuan and Song Yu from the Warring States period, as well as a large number of works composed during the Han dynasty several centuries later.

  8. Lament for Ying - Wikipedia

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    Lament for Ying (Chinese: 哀郢; pinyin: Āi Yǐng) is a poem which has sometimes been attributed to Chinese poet Qu Yuan, and dated to around 278 BCE.Lament for Ying is from the "Nine Declarations" (Jiu Zhang) section of the Chuci poetry anthology, compiled in ancient China.

  9. The Great Summons - Wikipedia

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    Various interpretations of "The Great Summons" have been made, as to whose soul is being summoned, by whom, and in what context. According to a historically unlikely tradition, Qu Yuan was on the verge of suicide for political reasons, and wrote "The Great Summons" to persuade himself to cling to life.