 Qu Yuan Sang while Walking (Quzi xingyin tu 屈子行吟圖), by Chen Hongshou (1616) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Author | (trad.) Qu Yuan, Song Yu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Original title | 楚辭 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Classical Chinese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Poetry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publication place | China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 楚辭 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 楚辞 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Words of Chu"[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.[2][3] The traditional version of the Chu Ci contains 17 major sections, anthologized with its current contents by Wang Yi, a 2nd-century AD librarian who served under Emperor Shun of Han.[2] Classical Chinese poetry prior to the Qin dynasty is largely known through the Chu Ci and the Classic of Poetry.[4]
- ^ Hawkes (1985), p. 28.
- ^ a b Hawkes, David. Ch'u Tz'u: Songs of the South, an Ancient Chinese Anthology. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959), 28.
- ^ Kern 2012.
- ^ "Sao Poetry," Fusheng Wu pp. 36–58. In Zong-Qi Cai, ed., How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-231-13940-3.