1. The original version of the Dragon Boat Festival

is divided into the Dragon Boat Festival, which is rumored to be Qu Yuan throughout the ages.

It's funny that the Chu River is so empty that it can't be washed away.

2. Interpretation

The Dragon Boat Festival, according to legend, was the day when Qu Yuan, the first great man in China, committed suicide by throwing himself into the river. Later generations injured him and died unjustly, so he threw zongzi into the river as a sacrifice and rowed to save him, which led to the custom of solar eclipse and dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival. The author's quatrain raises a thought-provoking question: despite all kinds of praises and sacrifices by later generations, tragedies like Qu Yuan's sinking into the river have happened after all, and such grievances cannot be simply washed away.

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Notes

1. Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

2. since: since.

3. Qu Yuan (34-278 BC): the earliest romantic poet in China and a statesman of Chu in the Warring States Period. The name is flat and the word is original. Zheng Xiu, Yin Zilan, doctor Jin Shang, the imperial concubine, were vilified and excluded and exiled. Chu was defeated by Qin, and after the fall of Ying capital, it sank to the Miluo River. According to legend, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival originated from the commemoration of Qu Yuan.

4. Chu River: the river in Chu State, here Miluo.