Qu Yuan is an important minister of Chu State. He was trusted by Chu Huaiwang as a left disciple in his early years. He often discussed state affairs with Chu Huaiwang and participated in the formulation of laws. While presiding over foreign affairs. He advocated that Chu should unite with Qi and * * * should contend with Qin. With the efforts of Qu Yuan, the national strength of Chu State has been enhanced. However, due to Qu Yuan's honest and frank personality and the slander and rejection of others, Qu Yuan was gradually alienated by Chu Huaiwang.

In the twenty-fourth year of Wang Huai, Qu Yuan was expelled from the capital and lived in the Northern Han Dynasty. During his exile, Qu Yuan felt depressed and began to create literature. His works are full of nostalgia for Chu and Chu Feng, and enthusiasm for serving the people and the country. Later, he was called back. Thirty years after Wang Huai, Chu Huaiwang refused to listen to Qu Yuan's dissuasion, insisted on entering Qin, was detained, and died in Qin. ?

After King Xiang of Chu ascended the throne, Chu Qing was ignorant, listened to Yin's slanderers and expelled Qu Yuan again. Qu Yuan lives in Xiangshui, Shui Yuan, Hunan. In the twenty-first year of King Xiang of Qing Dynasty (the first 278 years), General Qin sent his troops to the south, but returned in vain, destroying the capital. In desperation and indignation, Qu Yuan threw a big stone into the Miluo River and died.

Legend has it that local people threw zongzi to fish to prevent Qu Yuan's body from being eaten by fish, and later it gradually formed a ceremony. From now on, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. People will eat zongzi and row dragon boats to commemorate this great patriotic poet. According to Wen Yiduo's research, the Dragon Boat Festival existed in wuyue before Qu Yuan jumped into the river.

Extended data Qu Yuan (about 340-278 BC) was a poet and politician of Chu State during the Warring States Period in China. Born in Zigui, Danyang, Chu (now Yichang, Hubei). Mi surname, Qu family, human, the word is native; Since the cloud name is regular, the spirit word is even. Chu Wuwang Xiong Tong's son Qu Xian's descendants. When I was a teenager, I was well educated, knowledgeable and ambitious.

In his early years, he was trusted by Chu Huaiwang as Zuotu, and was also a doctor of San Lv, in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs. He advocated "American politics", promoting and appointing talents internally, perfecting statutes and uniting external forces to resist Qin. Slashed by nobles, he was exiled to Hanbei and Yuanxiang Valley. After Qin Jun invaded the capital of Chu, Qu Yuan drowned in the Miluo River.

Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in the history of China, the founder of China's romantic literature, the founder and representative writer of Songs of the South, and has created the tradition of "vanilla beauty", and is known as "the father of Ci Fu" and "the father of China's poetry".

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Qu Yuan-Baidu Encyclopedia