Qu Yuan’s most famous saying is: The road is long and long, but I will search high and low. "Li Sao"

Qu Yuan (about 340 BC - 278 BC), surnamed Mi, Qu's family name, given name Ping, courtesy name Yuan, also named Zhengze, courtesy name Lingjun, was born in Danyang, Chu State Zigui (now Yichang, Hubei) was a poet and politician of the Chu State during the Warring States Period. Descendants of Qu Xia, son of Xiong Tong, King of Chu Wu. When he was young, he received a good education, was knowledgeable and had great ambitions.

In his early years, he was trusted by King Huai of Chu and served as Zuotu and Sanlu officials, and was also in charge of domestic and foreign affairs. He advocated "beautiful government", advocated appointing talents internally, amending laws and regulations, and advocating to unite Qi to resist Qin externally. Because he was excluded and slandered by the nobles, he was exiled to northern Han Dynasty and Yuanxiang River Basin. ? After the Chu State's Yingdu was captured by the Qin army, he sank into the Miluo River and died for the Chu State.

Qu Yuan was a great patriotic poet in Chinese history, the founder of Chinese romantic literature, the founder and representative writer of "Chu Ci", and pioneered the tradition of "vanilla beauty", known as "The ancestor of Chu Ci", Song Yu, Tang Le and Jing Chai, the famous poets and poets of Chu State, were all influenced by Qu Yuan.

The emergence of Qu Yuan's works marks that Chinese poetry has entered a new era from elegant singing to romantic originality. His main works include "Li Sao", "Nine Songs", "Nine Chapters", "Heavenly Questions", etc. The Songs of Chu, with Qu Yuan's works as the main body, is one of the sources of Chinese romantic literature and has had a profound impact on later generations of poetry.