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Ch'ü Yüan

(Pinyin) Qu Yuan

[chy yyahn]

noun

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



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

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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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Ch'u Yuan had followers in that and the next century; but perhaps his greatness was hardly to be approached for a thousand years.

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The Dragon was yet a long way off; though indeed it must be allowed that flight, when Chwangtse wrote and Ch'u Yuan sung, was surprised with the far churr of startling wings under the stars.

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Not for such an age as that Chwangtse and Ch'u Yuan wrote, but indeed you may say for all time.

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