The longest ancient poem in China is Qu Yuan (Pre-Qin Dynasty), the author of "Li Sao".
1. Chapter 1 (Demoted), line 53: The poet starts from his family background and birth, reviews his efforts, pursuits, struggles and failures throughout his life, and expresses it with sadness and indignation. An unswerving spirit and an attitude of never regretting anything.
2. Chapter 2 (Reflection) Line 38; then faced with his own failure, he conducted a deep reflection. After all, failure is an indisputable fact.
Therefore, the poet starts with "the path seems unclear", and first expresses his reflection by "retreating to fix his clothes", but only in this way, there is a lack of waves and it is difficult to go deep, so he borrows The character "Sister" reproaches and persuades from the negative side, so as to force the section "Go to Emperor Shun for comment", which not only deepens the reflection, but also strengthens the emotion.
Even the "sister" with whom I have the closest friendship and cares most about me scolds and persuades me like this. Who else in the world can understand me? In a fit of anger, he "went to Emperor Shun for comment." The result of reflection has strengthened my ideals and beliefs.
3. Chapter 3 (Try Again) Line 38: I actively searched again, but after searching high and low, there was no result. The poet writes about his "careful pathfinding". This was a renewed effort after being slandered, but whether it was knocking on the "Heaven's Gate" or "seeking beautiful women", it all ended in failure.
4. Chapter 4 (Wandering) Line 38: The poet fell into depression and wandering again. Your hard-working search failed again, where will you go?
The poet was helpless, so he "took Qiongmao to divine divination" and asked Lingfen to predict for him to resolve his doubts. The result of the spirit divination was that he had to travel far away from Chu State to find a way out.
After some consideration, I am still hesitant. So he asked the wizard again to seek advice from the gods. After that, after repeated and careful thinking, he finally decided to "travel far away on his own" and leave Chu State for travel.
5. Chapter 5 (He voted), line 21; after careful consideration, the poet ended his wandering, recognized the "auspicious hexagram" of the spirit atmosphere, and chose the "auspicious day" to set off.
However, the journey full of longing was abandoned midway because of "care for the country of Chu": "I turned around and stopped."
In the end, the only choice was to die for the country and "follow Peng Xian back!"