1 slim. Li Sao expresses her pursuit of a beautiful and noble moral realm in the image of vanilla. "Not only should I take care of it, but also I should take care of it ..." They are all vanilla. Qu Yuan's pursuit of self-cultivation and virtue is metaphorically expressed through clothes and herbs. This is consistent with the Confucian character of "self-cultivation" and "cautious independence".

2 Governing the country. Li Sao expresses Qu Yuan's hope to improve the monarch through his own efforts-"May the beauty of Sun be exhausted", which symbolizes the monarch. His political and ethical ideal is to guide the monarch to reach the moral realm of the first generation of saints through himself. The purity of the past three times, ... It can be seen that his enterprising spirit of governing the country is the most important spirit of Confucianism. And this respect for the first generation of holy kings is also in line with the ideal of Confucianism returning to the Duke of Zhou.

In a word, self-cultivation and governing the country both embody the Confucian idea of "helping the world if you are rich, and helping the world if you are poor", and pursue the perfection of your own moral character, that is, "self-cultivation", which is extended to "governing the country", but this ideal is difficult to realize in secular society, so "retiring and mending clothes" has returned to Confucian "governing the country" and "serving the country". As Guo Moruo said, Qu Yuan's Li Sao embodies two things, one is aesthetic art, but the Confucian spirit.