Chu Yuan

Chu Yuan was a patriotic poet and statesman in ancient China born over 2000 years ago in the state of Chu of the Warring States Period a period of transition from Slavery to Feudalism System Chin Chu Chao Wei Yen Han and Chi were the Seven States occupying various parts of China at incessant war of annexation with one another Of the Seven States Chin grew most powerful Visavis Chins military pressure and Chus political corruption Chu Yuan advocated alliance with Chi to resist Chin abroad and political reforms at home so as to unify whole China Chu Yuans political viewpoint met with sabotage by slaveowning aristocrat bloc was unable to be carried out in Chu Being so indignant he finally took his own life by jumping into the river His poems Li Sao Tien Wen etc in the development history of Chinese literature shone with everlasting brilliance