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Qu Yuan
- Qin Shi #43 |
屈原 1
琴史 #43 2 Qu Yuan at the river's edge (selection) 3 |
Qu Yuan (ca. 340 - 278), original name Qu Ping, is most famous for having drowned himself in the Miluo River.4 This event is commemorated annually in the Dragon Boat Festival, the original purpose of which was apparently to feed Qu Yuan's spirit from boats. A nickname for Qu Yuan is Shui Xian (Water Immortal), and some versions of the melodies of with title (see
Shuixian Qu) connect it to Qu Yuan.
Qu Yuan is said to have written such qin melodies as Zi Chen Qu,5 Zepan Yin and Li Sao, but these melodies were certainly written by later people who were inspired by his thoughts; likewise the lament called Chen Xiang Yuan,6 said to have been written by his wife.
The original Qin Shi essay begins as follows.
Further details in preparation.
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a
separate page)
1.
Qu Yuan sources
屈原 7845.70 戰國楚人，名平別號靈均。 Chu Yuan, from Chu during the Warring States period, had the original name Ping and another nickname Lingjun. Biography in
Wikipedia.
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2.
Qin Shi #43: 9 lines
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3.
Qu Yuan image
The above is from Image 1 illustrating the melody Zepan Yin.
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4.
Miluo River 汨羅 (sometimes written Milo;
compare Canglang)
17563.3 Miluo has Luo with the water radical (character not in my computer), saying it is a variant of 汨羅 Miluo formerly used for the river of that name that flows westward into the Xiang River between Changsha and Yueyang. The entry 17563.1 汨羅 mentions only a Milo River in Jiangxi, but the one above Changsha is the one now commonly associated with Qu Yuan. The biography in Qin Shi says Qu Yuan "自投汨淵以死 threw himself into the 汨淵 depths of the Mi river in order to die."
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5.
Song of Drowning Oneself (自沈曲 Zi Chen Qu)
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6.
Lament of Drowning in the Xiang (沉湘怨 Chen Xiang Yuan)
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