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A Comparison of the Attitude of Writing and the Artistic Style Between QU Yuan's Works and ZHUANG Zi's

Zong Ming-hua

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The works of QU Yuan and Zi are on a basis of feelings of love and hate and take their roots in Chu Culture.Therefore,they both are always known as ZHUANG Sao in Chinese classical literary history.However QU Yuan's artistic style is different from Zi's because of their different social status and mentality.QU Yuan born to the purple spontaneously chose the artistic reform of Chu Ge,whereas Zi voluntarily used artistic fantasy to compose fables with strong self-consciousness.That is the main reason why they all authored the works in romance style but make readers enjoyable with different artistic styles.

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The works of QU Yuan and Zi are on a basis of feelings of love and hate and take their roots in Chu Culture.Therefore,they both are always known as ZHUANG Sao in Chinese classical literary history.However QU Yuan's artistic style is different from Zi's because of their different social status and mentality.QU Yuan born to the purple spontaneously chose the artistic reform of Chu Ge,whereas Zi voluntarily used artistic fantasy to compose fables with strong self-consciousness.That is the main reason why they all authored the works in romance style but make readers enjoyable with different artistic styles.

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The works of QU Yuan and Zi are on a basis of feelings of love and hate and take their roots in Chu Culture.Therefore,they both are always known as ZHUANG Sao in Chinese classical literary history.However QU Yuan's artistic style is different from Zi's because of their different social status and mentality.QU Yuan born to the purple spontaneously chose the artistic reform of Chu Ge,whereas Zi voluntarily used artistic fantasy to compose fables with strong self-consciousness.That is the main reason why they all authored the works in romance style but make readers enjoyable with different artistic styles.

Key concepts: Fantasy, Style (visual arts), Romance, Feeling, Consciousness, Writing style, Literature, Art

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