* Qu Yuan, Chinese poet and scholar from State of Chu ( 340 – 278 BC )

* Qu Yuan, poet, scholar, and minister from Chu

* Qu Yuan, Chinese poet ( approximate date ) ( d. 278 BC )

* Qu Yuan, Chinese poet from southern Chu who lived during the Warring States Period.

Qu Yuan risks his life to go up to the court to persuade the King of Huai not to go to the negotiation.

In China, an anthology of poems by Qu Yuan and Song Yu, Songs of Chu, defined a new form of poetry that came from the area of Chu during the Warring States period.

* Verse poetry of ancient states such as " Lisao ", " Jiu Ge ", and " Heavenly Questions " traditionally attributed to the authorship of Qu Yuan of Chu

Separately in southern China, the Chuci is ascribed to Qu Yuan ( c. 340-278 BCE ) and his follower Song Yu ( fl.

Examples of this new socialist literature include The Builder ( Chuanye Shi 创业史 ) by Liu Qing 柳青, The Song of Youth ( Qing Chun Zhi Ge 青春之歌 ) by Yang Mo 杨沫, Tracks in the Snowy Forest ( Lin Hai Xue Yuan 林海雪原 ) by Qu Bo ( novelist ) 曲波, Keep the Red Flag Flying ( Hong Qi Pu 红旗谱 ) by Liang Bin 梁斌, The Red Sun ( Hong Ri 红日 ) by Wu Qiang 吴强, and Red Crag ( Hong Yan 红岩 ) by Luo Guangbin 罗广斌 and Yang Yiyan ( 杨益言 ).

Early Chinese music and poetry was influenced by the Book of Songs, and the Chinese poet and statesman Qu Yuan.

** Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon ; this one-day holiday dubbed the Dragon Boat Festival was held in honor of an ancient Chinese statesman Qu Yuan ( c. 340 BC-278 BC ) from the State of Chu.

Ashamed that he could not save the dire affairs of his state or his king by offering good council, Qu Yuan leaped into a river and committed suicide ; it was said that soon after many went out on the river in boats in a desperate attempt to rescue him if still alive.

In his chapter on the patriotic minister and poet Qu Yuan, Sima Qian writes, " I have read Yuan's works Li Sao, Tianwen (" Heaven Asking "), Zhaohun ( summoning the soul ), and Ai Ying ( Lament for Ying )”.

That Qu Yuan sacrificed himself in protest through drowning speaks to this early notion.

The other main legend concerns the poignant saga of a Chinese court official named Qu Yuan, also phoneticised Ch ' u Yuen.

Qu Yuan is popularly regarded as a minister in one of the Warring State governments, the southern state of Chu ( present day Hunan and Hubei provinces ), a champion of political loyalty and integrity, and eager to maintain the Chu state's autonomy and hegemony.

Formerly, it was believed that the Chu monarch fell under the influence of other corrupt, jealous ministers who slandered Qu Yuan as ' a sting in flesh ', and therefore the fooled king banished Qu, his most loyal counsellor.

The common people, upon learning of his suicide, rushed out on the water in their fishing boats to the middle of the river and tried desperatedly to save Qu Yuan.

However, late one night, the spirit of Qu Yuan appeared before his friends ( that is, he resurrected from the dead ) and told them that the rice meant for him was being intercepted by a huge river dragon.

In commemoration of Qu Yuan it is said, people hold dragon boat races annually on the day of his death.

Over the past 5 decades, a number of countries have issued postage stamps commemorating Qu Yuan and dragon boat competitions in New Zealand ( Wellington ), Canada ( Vancouver ), China and Hong Kong SAR, among others.

Meanwhile, Liu Yao, who was by imperial decree the governor of Yang Province ( 揚州 ; covering present-day southern Jiangsu, southern Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian ), occupied Qu ' e as the regional seat Shouchun ( 壽春 ; present-day Shou County, Anhui ) was already occupied by Yuan Shu.

The Chuci collection consists primarily of poems ascribed to Qu Yuan ( 329-299 BCE ) and his follower Song Yu, although in its present form the anthology dates to Wang I's 158 CE compilation and notes, which are the only historically reliable source of both the text and information regarding its composition.

In Songs of Chu ( c. 340-278 BC ), Chapter 3 " Asking Heaven " (), author Qu Yuan writes that Nüwa molded figures from the yellow earth, giving them life and the ability to bear children.

Rafe de Crespigny states that Zhang's rhapsody used imagery similar to Qu Yuan's ( 340 – 278 BC ) poem " Li Sao " and focused on whether or not good men should flee the corrupted world or remain virtuous within it.

The poem below, Puis Qu ' en Oubli, is his 18th rondeau.

The poet Qu Yuan wrote a poem called Ladies Xiang ( 湘夫人 ) documented the songs of the rituals.

Lament for Ying ( Chinese: 哀郢, pinyin: āi Yǐng ) is a poem written by noted Chinese poet Qu Yuan in around 278 BCE.

Written in 373 verses containing 2490 characters, Li Sao is the earliest Chinese long poem and is acclaimed as the literary representative of Qu Yuan's high moral conduct and patriotism.

Zhao Hun (; Pinyin: Zhāo Hún ) is a poem by Qu Yuan, and collected in the Chu Ci ( 楚辭 Songs of Chu, sometimes Songs of the South ).

Yuan You (; Pinyin: Yuǎn Yòu ; ) is a poem attributed to Qu Yuan and published in the Chu Ci ( 楚辭 Songs of Chu, sometimes known in translation as the Songs of the South ).

Bu Ju (; Pinyin: Bǔ Jū ; ) a poem attributed to Qu Yuan and published in the Chu Ci ( 楚辭 Songs of Chu, sometimes Songs of the South ).

Yu Fu (; Pinyin: Yú Fù ; ) is a poem attributed to Qu Yuan and published in the Chu Ci ( 楚辭 Songs of Chu, sometimes Songs of the South ).

When the Qin general Bai Qi took Yingdu, the Chu capital, in 278 BC, Qu Yuan's grief was so intense that he drowned himself in the Miluo river after penning the Lament for Ying.

However, both the city of Ying and the entire state of Chu itself experienced doom due to the expansion of the state of Qin, which ended up consolidating China at the expense of the other former independent states: including Qu Yuan's home state — hence the " Lament ".

Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian mentions five of Qu Yuan's works: Li Sao (" Encountering Sorrow "), Tian Wen, Zhao Hun (" Summoning of the Soul "), Ai Ying (" Lament for Ying "), Huai Sha.

In Chretien de Troyes's Perceval, Gawain carries Escalibor and it is stated, " for at his belt hung Excalibor, the finest sword that there was, which sliced through iron as through wood " (" Qu ' il avoit cainte Escalibor, la meillor espee qui fust, qu ' ele trenche fer come fust .").

Mona Lisa, noted for being very theatrical, released Avant Qu ' il Ne Soit Trop Tard ( 1978 ).

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

* Paskwüw ( Paskwa, Pisqua, usually called Pasquah-‘ The Plain ’; French: Les Prairies ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born 1828, son of the famous chief Mahkaysis, 1874 his tribal group were making their living with bison hunting in the vicinity of today's Leech Lake, Saskatchewan, they had also created gardens and raised a small herd of cattle, in September 1874 Pasqua took part in the negotiations on the Treaty 4 in Qu ' Appelle Valley, he asked the Canadian government for the payment of £ 300, 000 to the tribes, which the Hudson's Bay Company had received for the sale of Rupert's land to Canada, despite the refusal of Canada he finally signed the treaty and moved to a reserve five miles west of Fort Qu ' Appelle, stayed out with his tribal group from the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, died in March 1889 he succumbed to the tuberculosis )

For the purposes of scoring Qu counts as two letters: squid would score two points ( for a five-letter word ) despite being formed from a chain of only four cubes.

In Islam, lashes for punishment for women are often performed with the Qu ' ran under one arm to minimise the swing and as a reminder of the source of legislation.

Other single sheets of calligraphy, designed for albums, might contain short poems, Qu ' ranic verses, or other texts.

The main languages, all using Arabic script, are Arabic, always used for Qu ' ranic verses, Persian in the Persianate world, especially for poetry, and Turkish, with Urdu appearing in later centuries.

Apart from miniature painting and calligraphy, other arts of the book are decorative illumination, the only type found in Qu ' ran manuscripts, and Islamic book covers, which are often highly decorative in luxury manuscripts, using either the geometric motifs found in illumination, or sometimes figurative images probably drawn for the craftsmen by miniature painters.

Sun Ce brought his father's body to Qu ' e ( 曲阿 ; present-day Situ Town, Jiangsu ) for burial and settled his mother down before heading for Danyang ( 丹楊 ; present-day Xuancheng, Anhui ), where his uncle Wu Jing was the governor.

Outside of this, the Qu ' ran makes no allowances for violent behavior.

Fard claimed that Prophet Muhammad of Arabia was a white skinned Arab and that he was the best example for all mankind, emphasizing to his followers that The Holy Qu ' ran and the life of Prophet Muhammad must be studied.

According to Elijah, Fard wanted the Holy Qu ' ran a book of spiritual guidance for all mankind, to become law of the land.