Qu Yuan
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| Qu Yuan | |
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 Portrait o Qu Yuan bi Chen Hongshou (17t century) | |
| Born |
c. 340 BC State o Chu, in modren Hubei, China |
| Dee'd |
278 BC Miluo River |
| Thrift | Poet, govrenment meenister |
| Qu Yuan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.svg) "Qu Yuan" in auncient seal script (tap) an regular (bottom) Cheenese chairacters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Qu Yuan (c. 340–278 BC)[1][2][3] wis a Cheenese poet an meenister wha lived during the Warrin States period o auncient Cheenae. He is kent for his patriotism an contreibutions tae clessical poetry an verses, especially throu the poems o the Chu Ci anthology (an aa kent as The Sangs o the Sooth or Sangs o Chu): a volume o poems attributit tae or conseedert tae be inspired bi his verse writin. Thegither wi the Shi Jing, the Chu Ci is ane o the twa great collections o auncient Cheenese verse. He is an aa remembered as the supposed origin o the Dragon Boat Festival.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ CUHK (2007), p. 205.
- ↑ Knechtges (2010), p. 745.
- ↑ Kern (2010), p. 76.
