"The road is long and the journey is long" is Qu Yuan's famous saying. The next sentence of "The road is long and the journey is long" is "I will search up and down", which comes from the 97th sentence of Qu Yuan's "Li Sao". "The road is long and long, and I will search up and down." It means that the road is narrow, long, and boundless, and I will work hard to pursue my ideal.

Qu Yuan (340 BC - 278 BC) was a poet and politician of the Chu State during the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in Chinese history and the founder of Chinese romantic literature. He is known as the "ancestor of Chinese poetry" and "the ancestor of poetry". Qu Yuan's works include "Li Sao", "Tian Wen", "Nine Songs", "Nine Chapters" and so on.

"Li Sao" is a magnificent prose poem, which enjoys a high status in the history of Chinese literature. "Li Sao" was written when Qu Yuan was exiled in the Jiangnan area. It is a work of sorrow and anger filled by the writer's passion for the motherland. Qu Yuan felt that his way of governing the country could not be accepted by the King of Chu, so he had to walk away sadly and angrily to seek the ideal way of life.