Qu Yuan went straight on the right path, exhausted his loyalty and wisdom to serve his monarch, and he was poor in the world. When you see a letter and doubt it, but you are loyal and slandered, can you have no complaints? Qu Ping's Works ...

The meaning of this sentence is: Qu Yuan acted uprightly, tried his best to help the monarch with his loyalty and wisdom, and evil villains came to alienate him, which can be said to be a dilemma. Honesty is doubted, but loyalty is slandered. Source: Historical Records Biographies of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng

Excerpt: Qu Ping went straight on the right path, devoted his loyalty and wisdom to serving his monarch, and he was poor in the world! Believe and see doubt, loyal and slandered, can you have no complaints? Qu Ping's work "Li Sao" is self-blaming.

Translation: Qu Yuan acted uprightly, tried his best to help the monarch with his loyalty and wisdom, and slandered evil people to alienate him. It can be said that he was in trouble. Honesty is doubted, but loyalty is slandered. Can there be no resentment? The reason why Qu Yuan wrote Li Sao was probably caused by resentment.

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It was Hong Xingzu who first linked Qu Yuan's loyalty to the monarch and patriotism. In the era when Hong Xingzu lived at the turn of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, ethnic contradictions were unprecedented and the Song Dynasty was in jeopardy. He himself was demoted for offending Qin Gui.

The national peril and personal resentment are intertwined in his heart, so he expressed his feelings through Qu Yuan's story. In A Supplement to the Songs of Chu, After Li Sao, he attributed the reasons for Qu Yuan's sinking to two points: First, "the same surname has no meaning to go, but only death"; One is to "go to the country and die" and can't bear to leave. The former is loyal to the monarch and the latter is patriotic. He also repeatedly stressed: "Qu Yuan's worries are also about the country."

Although Hong Xingzu has not clearly marked Qu Yuan's "patriotism" spirit, he highlighted and expanded Qu Yuan's "homesickness" complex, and for the first time in the history of Qu Yuan's acceptance, he raised it to the height of loving the country. From "hometown" to "country", the patriotic level of Qu Yuan's personality took shape.