Just like Tibetan " Shiba Question-and-Answer Song", " Asking Heaven" is a Creation Epic of the Chu people in question-and-answer song style formed in religious activities. It belongs to the wizard history literature, inherited, studied and spread by Quyuan. Because its contents were similar to temple fresco, Quyuan wrote its question part on the fresco, also because its syntactical structures of question and answer were almost the same, it was unnecessary to write out the answer part. All these lead to the illusion that there is no answer part in it. The Chu people copied and sang it as classic, passing it from generation to generation. "Asking Heaven" is well-organized through interlink structure in general except some so-called minor mistakes.%《天问》犹如藏民族《世巴问答歌》，是在神事活动中形成的楚民族的问歌体创世史诗，属于巫史文献的范畴。屈原是其传承者、整理者和传播者。由于祠庙壁画与《天问》内容基本相同，屈原把《天问》的问歌部分写在壁画上，又由于《天问》问和答的句式几乎完全相同，所以没必要写出答的部分，造成《天问》有问无答的假象。楚公室之人将其抄录、传唱，崇为经典，使文本形式的《天问》得以传世。《天问》是创世史诗，其连环式结构使《天问》整体结构“井井有条”，而具体叙事偶或“文义不次”，因而被后世以“错简”论之。
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