楚辭

Songs of the South, also known as "Chu Ci" is to create a poetry of the great poet Qu Yuan of the Warring States Period. The work uses Chu (now the literary style of the two lakes area), speech and rhyming, narrates Chu mountains characters, historical setting, with strong local characteristics. Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang, the works of Qu Yuan and Song Yu et al inherited Qu Yuan's works compiled into a set called "Songs of the South". And after following the "Book of Songs", a far-reaching of literature poetry collection. And is China's first Romantic poetry collection.