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Qu Yuan is the royal family of the Chu State, is a great politician, but also a talented poet, but Qu Yuan's surname is why is it called Qu Yuan, is there any story or saying in between, here Niu Ye shares the origin story of Qu Yuan's name, let's take a look at it together.
Origin of Qu Yuan's name
Before the Warring States, only nobles had surnames, with noble men calling them surnames and women surnames. The clan comes from a fiefdom, the clan is used to distinguish the nobles, the nobility has a clan, the surname is used to distinguish marriage, and there can be no intermarriage between the same surname.
Qu Yuan's surname was 芈, and his name was Ping (名平), a descendant of Qu Feng, the son of Xiong Tong, the King of Chuwu during the Warring States period, and Qu was a clan member, so his name was Qu Yuan, not Qi Yuan. Because she is a woman, her name can be mi yue.
Qu Yuan's achievements
First of all, Qu Yuan was a great poet, talented, and leading the way, who pioneered a new genre and wrote in that genre. Shang reached the height of the peak, and wrote "Leaving the Troubles", "Nine Songs", "Nine Chapters", "Heavenly Questions" and other masterpieces.
Secondly, Qu Yuan was a patriotic politician, in a high position, a descendant of the royal family and an important courtier in the DPRK, an important promoter of the Alliance of the Six Kingdoms, and although he was exiled by traitors many times, he never betrayed the ambition of the country.
Why did Qu Yuan throw himself into the river and die
After the chu state was attacked by the Qin general Bai Qi, seeing that his home country did not exist, Qu Yuanning died rather than dishonored, and chose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river (Miluo River). Then, the reasons why Qu Yuan threw himself into the river and died were as follows.
The first is the personality of Qu Yuan, a patriotic and upright person, who can be said to be jealous and hateful, who cannot tolerate sand in his eyes, who is indomitable in front of the powerful people of the Chu state, but does not understand the detours, and the result is that he is ostracized and left behind.
The second was the king's inability to do so, which hastened the demise of the Chu state. King Huai of Chu was plundered by foreign enemies, his son succeeded to the throne, exiled Qu Yuan, and eventually the State of Chu was destroyed by Qin, Qu Yuan had no way to report to the country, did not want to see the lost writing of his home country, and finally chose to commit suicide in the Miluo River.