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The culture of Chu state have effect on Qu Yuan, Song Yu and Xun Zi living in the Warring States Period at different levels. The Ci Fu works they created have the same background and writing time, so their works reflected the similar characteristics such as: narrating in detail, ask-and-answer, political discourse ect. Because of their different personalities, dreams and conditions, the prose works of them show diversity characters. In literary stylistic field, they choose different writing styles according to the contents. In this paper, based on their prose work, firstly to define the concept of Ci Fu, secondly to determine the scope of the subject, then to compare and analyze the literary stylistics of their Ci Fu works. The ultimate goal is to find the similar features in their works followed by Fu. At the same time we can reveal the literature features in the transitionary literature styles from the Warring States Period to Han Dynasty. In the political field, the situation was changing from division to unity, as a result of that in the literature field, many literary styles cracked, mixed and impacted with each other, then form the unified, recognized and fashion style ,which is the origin of the style of Fu. Forms based on content, changing as the content developing. Presenting aspiration and expressing emotion are the most important points in literature, according to them, to study the forms of their works, finally to find the law of literature going.Chapter I is to define the scope of this study, to lay the foundation for the expansion later, the academic controversy about the called name of CiFu is summarized in this chapter, and finally to determine the direction and principles of the study, locking the range of reference material.Chapter II briefly elaborates Quyuan, Songyu and Xunzi’s creative background. Literary creation is inseparable from the political life and environment. Before the deeply discussion of original text literary style, it is necessary to simply introduce personality characteristics and dreams of the three, which are the spiritual reasons to choose the literary styles.Chapter III firstly discusses the similar forms of ask-and-answer, narration and rhetoric, looking for similarities in the performance of the personality styles, to focus on comparative analysis of the text, states the impact for the characters of Fu such as: Elaboration, ask-and-answer, Quan Bai Feng Yi.Chapter IV in two aspects: Irony Persuasion and Spiritual Sustenance, states the different literary styles performance of homogeneous content, the aims of all three’s CiFu creation are to intervene politics and pursuit themselves, that well explain why they choose such literary styles.Chapter V is the conclusion of this article, discussing in three aspects: the classification of CiFu, the reasons of connectional called-name Ci and Fu and the status and role of Quyuan, Songyu and Xunzi in CiFu developmental history.
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