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Qu Yuan
saidundated
O Soul come back to watch the birds in flight! He who has found such manifold delightsShall feel his cheeks aglowAnd the blood-spirit dancing through his limbs.
— Lines 144–147
Qu Yuan
Chinese poet and politician (c.340–278 BC)
- Fame59.7
- Momentum10.1
- China rank#154
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Updated 2026-06-09
A poet whose drowning became a festival. Qu Yuan wrote grieving verses for a crumbling kingdom, then—according to legend—walked into a river. Two millennia later, dragon boats still race in his name.
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Qu Yuan was an aristocrat in the State of Chu during the Warring States period, c. 340–278 BC. He's credited with shaping the Chu Ci anthology, one of ancient China's two greatest verse collections alongside the Shi Jing, and is widely accepted as the author of "The Lament." The historical record is thin and contested: the first reference to him surfaced in 174 BC, when an exiled official named Jia Yi wrote of a earlier man who'd met a "similar fate." Eighty years later, Sima Qian drafted the first biography in his Records of the Grand Historian, though it's riddled with contradictions. What e…
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