Different Views of Scholars in the Han Dynasty on Ci-Poetry and Fu-Poetry
摘要
The Songs of Chu (Chuci) originated in the late Warring States Period and was popular in the Han Dynasty with remarkable creation characteristics, which was greatly different from the poems in The Book of Songs. Since people in the Han Dynasty respected The Book of Songs as the classic and the highest paradigm, how they evaluated the Songs of Chu would naturally stir a debate with different opinions.