A study of Chuci ; its relationship with Taoism

人们早就认识到，楚辞的许多作品都出自屈原之手。但《楚辞》收录的这些作品在风格和内容上千差万别，我们不能相信一个人就能创作出这些不同的作品，我们可以将这些作品分为三个阶段：早期、中期(离骚阶段)和后期。早期的作品深受宗教仪式的影响，后期的作品与道教有着直接的关系。我们考察了后两部作品中发现的道家元素，并确认了这些作品创作的大致时间。

It had long been recognized that the many works of Chuci were made by Quyuan. But these works collected in Chuci are widely different in styles and contents, so we can not believe that one person can compose these various works.We can divide these works into three stages ; early stage, intermidiate stage(Lisao stage) and latter stage. The works that blonged to early stage were deeply influenced by religious rites, and that of latter stage had direct relationship with Taoism. We had examined the Taoist element that are found in the latter works, and recognized an approximate time when these works were composed.