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    typical Han poetry styles, and with Qu Yuan's style in The Lament. Some Chuci poems use the typical Book of Songs (Shijing) four syllable line, with its...
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    translation: "Encountering Sorrow") is an ancient Chinese poem from the anthology Chuci traditionally attributed to Qu Yuan. Li Sao dates from the 3rd century BCE...
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  • pinyin: Yuǎnyóu; English: Far Roaming) is a short work anthologized in the Chuci (楚辭 Songs of Chu, sometimes called The Songs of the South). "Yuanyou" is...
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    Han poetry (section Chuci)
    important poetic contribution from the Han era is the compilation of the Chuci anthology, which contains some of the oldest and most important poetic verses...
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    Xian (Taoism) (section Chuci)
    changes in how Daoists viewed immortality. Early text such as Zhuangzi, Chuci, and Liezi texts allegorically used xian immortals and magic islands to...
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    line-lengths and other influences from the poetry typical of the state of Chu. The Chuci collection consists primarily of poems ascribed to Qu Yuan (屈原) (329–299...
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    Yinglong (section Chuci)
    ground? Where did the seas and rivers flow? The (early second century CE) Chuci commentary of Wang Yi 王逸 answers that Yinglong drew lines on the ground...
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  • Zhenren (section Chuci)
    (universal resonance) and completely overwhelms his detractors. The southern Chuci (2nd century CE), which has Daoist elements although not strictly a "Daoist...
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  • active and vital soul than the p'o. The Chuci uses hun 65 times and po 5 times (4 in hunpo, which the Chuci uses interchangeably with hun). The identification...
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  • insatiable". The earliest references to the legendary bashe 巴蛇 are in the Chuci and Shanhaijing, two Chinese classic texts containing Warring States period...
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  • Lament for Ying is from the "Nine Declarations" (Jiu Zhang) section of the Chuci poetry anthology, compiled in ancient China. The Ying in the title is a...
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  • Feilong (section Chuci)
    and plague and make the harvest plentiful. The (3rd–2nd centuries BCE) Chuci uses feilong in two poems. The Li Sao 離騷 "On Encountering Trouble" says...
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    contribution to culture. The Xiaoxiang poetry tradition begins with the Chuci tradition, which was associated with Qu Yuan's exile, in the centuries before...
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    following): the so-called "Greater Siming" and the "Lesser Siming". The Chuci poetry anthology (collected late BC - early BCE) has a section Nine Songs...
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    Wangliang (section Chuci)
    Remonstrances" section (6th remonstrance, 《哀命》) of the c. 3rd–2nd century BCE Chuci (with some later additions) poetically uses wangliang (罔兩) to mean "feeling...
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    prominent members of the Shanashen Trahen Osh mountain range, namely the chucis and the kracenard pine rallies, running perpendicular and far from one another...
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  • is considerable and their position is high. The (3rd–2nd centuries BCE) Chuci parallels tengshe 騰蛇 with feiju 飛駏 "flying horse" in the poem "A Road Beyond"...
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  • This is a list of the sections and individual pieces contained within the ancient poetry anthology Chu Ci (traditional Chinese: 楚辭; simplified Chinese:...
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    sections of the poetry anthology which was published under the title of the Chuci (also known as the Songs of Chu or as the Songs of the South). Despite the...
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    actually composing the Classic of Poetry (Shijing), the Songs of the South (Chuci), or the Nineteen Poems: These corpora were closed categories, one could...
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    literati tradition. Landscape images were present in the early Shijing and the Chuci, but in later poetry the emphasis changed, as in painting to the Shan shui...
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    variable lines generally typical of the Chuci pieces, the vocabulary also differs from most of the rest of the Chuci, sharing more in common with works in...
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    "Heavenly Questions", contained in the Chuci anthology, traditionally attributed to the authorship of Qu Yuan of Chu. The Chuci (together with some of its commentaries)...
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    expressing high emotion or grief. The Warring States period (c. 475 – 221 BCE) Chuci "Songs of the South" used xiao and changxiao to mean a piercing whistle...
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  • Ganying (section Chuci)
    resonance". The Zhuangzi, Lüshi chunqiu (twice), Huainanzi (twice), and Chuci all mention plucking the classical pentatonic gong 宮 and jue 角 notes on...
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    made, as to whose soul is being summoned, by whom, and in what context. Chuci Classical Chinese poetry Duanwu Festival History of fu poetry List of wu...
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  • has one more character in the fourth sentence. The c. 3rd–1st century BCE Chuci (Songs of Chu) poetry anthology collectively refers to Marquis Sui's pearl...
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    sections of the poetry anthology which was published under the title of the Chuci (also known as the Songs of Chu or as the Songs of the South). Despite the...
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    examples below are roughly arranged chronologically. The 3rd-2nd centuries BCE Chuci "Songs of Chu" mentions Han Zhong (韓眾) in two poems about shamanistic spirit...
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    Bai's affinity with the past, and a continuity with the traditions of the Chuci and the early fu. Watson finds this "element of fantasy" to be behind Li...
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