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The "Heavenly Questions" was an influence on the later works of the "Chuci". David Hinton sees the "Heavenly Questions" and the "Nine Songs" as introducing a "shamanistic world from the folk tradition" into the literary tradition of Chinese poetry: appearing in form close to the older, oral tradition in "Heavenly Questions" and the "Nine Songs", these voices from the shamanic world were transformed into poetry of "self-conscious individual authorship" with a personal voice in the "Li Sao".