At present, the Songs of Chu and the Chu Culture symposium & Hubei Qu Yuan seminar annual meeting was held in Yangtze University in Jingzhou. Over 100 persons from mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan and other experts and scholars at home and abroad have attended the meeting.
The contents of the symposium include Qu Yuan, Chu Culture and Jingzhou; research on Qu Yuan and his works; research on Song Yu and his works; research on writers in Chu State and their works;research on the Songs of Chu and unearthed literature; research on the problems of Qu Yuan study methodology and so on. Among which the discussion of folk beliefs on Qu Yuan, Tian Wen’s myth status, “Lisao” paraphrasing and vision and plight of Qu Yuan study are the main part of the symposium.
The journalist has got that within the received papers by the symposium, the studies about Qu Yuan's thought and legend have accounted for more than half: A View on Qu Yuan's Death From Folk Religion, A New Legend of Qu Yuan's Death Causes, the Reason Why the Legend “Qu Yuan Dies for the Lord” Has the Same Sound in Folks, Yin Jifu Hometown, Qu Yuan's Original Family Home Shiyan City, Hubei Province Bears A Very Deep Culture of Qu Yuan, The View of Soul in The Songs of Chu Spirit Trap; Overseas scholars from Malaysia, Japan, etc. are quite interested in the source of Chu Culture, for example, The Use of Geography Research Methods on Research of Early Chu Culture Geographical Partition, The Chu Culture's Influence on Modern Writer Shen Congwen's Natural Awareness, etc.
The research on Qu Yuan and the songs of Chu have special academic status in Hubei. Since the establishment, Hubei Qu Yuan Academy has held “Forum on the development of cooperation across the Straits of Qu Yuan's culture and tourism industry”, “Chinese Qu Yuan's hometown of Dragon Boat Festival on both sides of the Taiwan Straits Qu Yuan Cultural Forum” and other large-scale symposiums in succession, which create a good cultural atmosphere for both sides of the Taiwan Straits economic ties and academic exchanges, as well as emotional communication.
Jingzhou is the capital of Chu. Chueses have made it as the capital for 411 years, also built Chu culture which can be comparable with the ancient Greek and Roman civilization。