Ch'ü Yüan

American  

[chy yyahn] / ˈtʃü ˈyüɑn /

(Pinyin) Qu Yuan

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

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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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Ch'u Yuan took the hint: leaped into the Mi-lo;—and yearly since then they have held the Dragon-boat Festival on the waters of Middle China to commemorate the search for his body.—

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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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