Qu Yuan wrote it in 1942+ October. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese invaders stepped up their aggression against China and concentrated their main forces on a large-scale "sweeping" of the anti-Japanese base areas. Chiang Kai-shek, on the other hand, stepped up his anti-* * and separatist activities, resulting in the "Southern Anhui Incident" of 194 1 and 1. At the same time, in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, producers and anti-Japanese progressives were massacred. The whole Kuomintang area has become a suffocating tin can.

Facing the dark reality, all progressives in China are angry. Guo Moruo used historical drama as a spear, borrowed the past from the present, and created the historical drama Qu Yuan, consciously "reviving the anger of Qu Yuan's era". And said: "I intend to use the era of Qu Yuan to symbolize our era."

2. The contradiction and theme of Qu Yuan.

The contradictions and conflicts in Qu Yuan are mainly manifested in the sharp contradictions and struggles between the patriotic political line of uniting Qi Kang, represented by Qu Yuan, and the reactionary line of falling to Qin and betraying the country, represented by Shanxi merchants. This is the essence of ideological conflict and conflict in the whole drama. On this basis, the struggle against persecution and persecution is formed, which constitutes the action line running through the whole play.

The theme drama launched this life-and-death struggle between light and darkness, justice and evil, which showed the noble quality of Qu Yuan, an ancient patriotic poet and politician, and made the whole drama full of lofty tragic spirit and majestic righteousness. It angrily exposed and lashed out at those ghosts who betrayed the country for glory, were ignorant, and framed loyalty, shouting "We only have thunder, only lightning, only storms" and "Destroy, destroy, destroy everything sleeping in the dark arms!" The strongest voice of the times.

3. The personality characteristics and significance of Qu Yuan's image.

Qu Yuan was a great poet and politician in the Warring States Period. His lofty patriotism and selfless fighting spirit are his personality characteristics. He loves the motherland and people, and sincerely hopes that Chu will become strong and realize the great cause of reunifying China.

Significance: The image of Qu Yuan is a great patriotic image. He is the ideal of the people, the embodiment of light and justice, and the soul of the Chinese nation. His noble political sentiments and ideals, tenacious will to struggle, strong integrity and character have saturated the great and long-standing historical spirit of our nation, showing the infinite strength of the nation, and also showing the author's strong revolutionary style of love, hate and fighting.