Song Yu's masterpiece in Chu ci

Song Yu's masterpiece in Chu Ci is Nine Arguments.

Nine Debates is a lyric poem written by Song Yu, a Chu writer in the Warring States Period. To some extent, it reflects the darkness of reality and expresses the poet's ambition.

Although the whole poem mostly imitates Qu Yuan's Li Sao, it also has its own characteristics. Good at borrowing scenery to express emotion, blending feelings into scenery, and changeable syntax. He can skillfully use rhetorical devices such as double-tone rhyme and overlapping words, and his tone rhythm is cadence, full of musical beauty and strong artistic appeal.

The theme of Nine Debates is Sad Autumn. It organically combines the bleak natural phenomena of mountains and rivers in autumn with the poet's frustrated parade and the sadness of his wandering mood. Projecting people's feelings into nature, the work embodies a tragic atmosphere that can't be sent away and haunts repeatedly, arousing people's feelings about natural changes and personnel ups and downs.

Brief comments on Song Yu;

Song Yu is one of the four most beautiful men in ancient China, who are as famous as Pan An, Warrior Lan Ling and Wei Jie. Apart from their symmetrical appearance, they all have their outstanding talents.

Song Yu was a native of Chu during the Warring States Period. He was born after Qu Yuan. It is generally believed that he is a disciple of Qu Yuan, but some scholars doubt this statement. Sima Qian recorded that Song Yu, Le Tang and Jing Ke were famous for their ci.

Song Yu's talent and fame compete with each other, and his works occupy a lofty position in the history of China literature. His masterpiece Jiu Bian is comparable to Qu Yuan's Li Sao, and is called the "Gemini" of Chu Ci.

The witch in "Ode to God" eclipsed the two beauties and stones in the Spring and Autumn Period. Both Sima Xiangru's "Beauty Fu" and Cao Zhi's "Luo Shen Fu" have obvious traces of imitating "Goddess Fu", which shows the influence of "Goddess Fu" on later generations.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Nine Debates