《九歌》是宗教祭扫乐歌，是楚人宗教活动带来的艺术产品，所祭诸神都是入异己的自然力的灵性化。对自然的图腾与崇拜是人的本质力量不足以征服自然支配自然而在观念形态上的屈从，“荆楚变夷”的沉湘间的淫相之风正是这一原因的反映。“信鬼而好调”的自然宗教习俗与“作歌乐 The “Nine Songs” are religious sacrificial songs, which are the art products brought by the religious activities of the Chu people. All the sacrificed gods are the spiritual forces of nature into the alien. Totem and worship of nature is the essential power of man is not enough to conquer the natural domination of nature and the subjective conception of form, “Jing Chu denigrated” Shen Xiang prostitution phase of the wind is precisely the reason for this reflection. “Religious ghosts and good tune,” the natural religious practices and "make songs