Qu Yuan
Chinese poet and politician (c.340–278 BC)
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Warring States poet who shaped classical Chinese verse through the Chu Ci anthology and became so symbolically tied to patriotism that a suicide legend spawned the Dragon Boat Festival.
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Qu Yuan was a Chinese poet and aristocrat in the State of Chu during the Warring States period. He is known for his patriotism and contributions to classical poetry and verses, especially through the poems of the Chu Ci anthology, a volume of poems attributed to or considered to be inspired by his verse writing. Together with the Shi Jing, the Chu Ci is one of the two greatest collections of ancient Chinese verse. He is also remembered in connection to the supposed origin of the Dragon Boat Festival.
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