Title: QU Yuan's Given Name and Style:The Author of An Old Fisherman and Choosing the Dwelling Place,When and Where It Is Written
Abstract: Scholars since Ming Dynasty has questioned from time to time the view that QU Yuan is the author of An Old Fisherman and Choosing the Dwelling Place since the statementQU Yuan is sent into exileat the beginning of two poems is not in accordance with the habit that the ancient people did not refer to themselves by their style. Furthermore,the narration in two poems is also believed not in accordance with history.Actually,thegiven nameshould bestylein the statementQU Yuan's given name is Pingin Records of the Historian.People before the Northern and Southern Dynasties through Tang Dynasty maintained the consensus that QU Yuan's given name isYuanand his style isPing.Apart from this,the time he wrote these two poems was that when he was put into exile to the north of Hanjiang River by King Huai instead of that when he was put into exile to the south of Yangtze River by King Qingxiang.Those doubts can be cleared up by such an explanation.Besides,the argument that Daoist Thought is expressed in these two poems is not valid because of a misunderstanding of the poems.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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