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Bu Ju (Chinese: 卜居; Pinyin: Bǔ Jū; English: Divination) is a short work anthologized in the Chu Ci (楚辭 Songs of Chu sometimes called The Songs of the South). Although traditionally attributed to Qu Yuan there is little likelihood that he is the author. (Hawks 2011 [1985]: 203) Rather Bu ju is a biographical or pseudobiographical account of an incident in Qu Yuan’s life mostly in prose but with a short incidental verse ascribed to be a quote from Qu Yuan.