Ch'ü Yüan

[ chy yyahn ]

noun

1. 343–289 b.c., Chinese poet: author of the Li-sao.

Example Sentences

A river; Ch’ü Yüan drowns himself in, 152 Mi-lo Fo.

From Project Gutenberg

"The man of Tao," said the fisherman of the Mi-lo to Ch'u Yuan, "does not quarrel with his surroundings, but adapts himself to them";—and perhaps there you have the best possible explanation of the nature of those Great souls who come from time to time to save the world.

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All the world is foul," answered Ch'u Yuan, "and I alone am clean."—"If that is so," said the fisherman, "why not plunge into the current, and make its foulness clean with the infection of your purity?

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He was I suppose the greatest poet since Ch'u Yuan, who came some seven centuries earlier; it is from him we get the story some of you may know under the title Red Peach-Blossom Inlet.

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The theme of it is this: From earliest childhood Ch'u Yuan had sought the Tao, but in vain.

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