Real name: Qu Ping

Nickname: General

Words: "Yuan" and "Ling Jun"

Time: Eastern Zhou and Warring States Period

Place of Birth: Chu Danyang (now Yichang City, Hubei Province)

Date of birth: about 342 BC

Time of death: 278 BC

Main works: Li Sao, Nine Chapters, Nine Songs and Nine Questions.

Identity: Ci writer, poet and politician.

Shengping:

Qu Yuan, son of Chu Wuwang Xiong Tong, descendant of Qu Xian, doctor of Chu State, and one of the earliest great poets in China. After Wuqi, another politician who advocated political reform in Chu was Qu Yuan.

He founded Chu Ci and the tradition of "vanilla beauty". During the Warring States Period, Chu was born into a noble family, worked as a doctor and was a disciple in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs. He advocated using talents internally, cultivating statutes, and uniting external forces against Qin. Later, he was exiled to the Yuan Xianghe Valley because he was excluded by the nobles.

In 278 BC, General Bai Qi of the State of Qin captured the capital of Chu in one fell swoop and burned the tomb presented by King Chu in Yiling (now Yichang City, Hubei Province). Qu Yuan, who was worried about his country and people, committed suicide in the Miluo River, and the Dragon Boat Festival is said to be the anniversary of his death.

He initiated a new era of poetry from collective singing to individual independent writing. He is the founder of China's romantic poetry and the first great patriotic poet in China. 1953 to commemorate the 2230th anniversary of Qu Yuan's death, the World Peace Council passed a resolution to identify Qu Yuan as one of the four cultural celebrities in the world.