The Dragon Boat Festival story - the legend of Qu Yuan, the great husband of Sanlu
Qu Yuan, who lived in the Warring States period, was ambitious and showed amazing talent when he was young, and gained the trust of King Huai of Chu, and was given the official position of "left apostle", which was recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian (史记), and was in charge of internal and external affairs. According to Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian", he was a minister in charge of internal affairs and diplomacy, discussing state affairs with the king and meeting guests and dealing with vassals.
The Warring States period was a chaotic period in which Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, and Qin competed for supremacy, and Qin became increasingly powerful after the appointment of Shang Yang to change the law, often launching attacks on the six states. At that time, only Chu and Qi were able to fight against them.
Given the situation at that time, Qu Yuan advocated the improvement of internal affairs, and externally advocated the alliance of Qi against Qin, thus infringing on the interests of the upper ruling class, and was ostracized and framed by those who had been bribed by Qin's favorite concubine of the King Huai of Chu, Zheng Sleeve, Shangguan Dafu, and Yin Zi Jiao.
The confused King Huai of Chu listened to the slanders, alienated Qu Yuan and banished him to the north of Han, as a result, King Huai of Chu was tricked by Qin to be a prisoner for three years and died in a foreign country. Seeing all this, Qu Yuan was extremely angry. He was firmly opposed to surrendering to Qin in humiliation, which was met with even more serious persecution by his political opponents. The newly crowned King Xiang of Chu, who was even more corrupt than his father, banished Qu Yuan to a place even more remote than Hanbei.
Qu Yuan's spirit and life were devastated by his long exile. One day when he was chanting by the river, he met a fisherman, who, seeing his haggard face and withered body, advised him not to be so formal and easy-going, and to be in the company of the powerful and the rich. Qu Yuan said, "I would rather be buried in the belly of a fish in the Xiangliu River; how can I be in the dust of the world with my white face?"
278 AD, the capital of Chu was attacked by the Qin army, the poet was a great blow to the spirit, see the country's destruction of the difficult, but unable to exert their own power, he was worried as if burned, in the extreme disappointment and pain, the poet came to the east of the Yangtze River Miluo River, holding a stone to sink himself. He was about sixty-two years old when he died, on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.
Expanded InformationDuanwu Festival, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals. According to the "Jing Chu chronicle" records, because of the mid-summer, Shunyang on the May is mid-summer, its first noon is the day of the good weather Shunyang, so the fifth day of May is also known as the "Duanyang Festival".
In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Festival of the first day of the sun, the Dragon Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, the day in the festival and so on. Dragon Boat Festival customs are mainly food dumplings and dragon boat races. The custom of eating rice dumplings has been prevalent in China for thousands of years; dragon boat races are very popular along the coast of southern China, and after spreading abroad, they are loved by people from all over the world and have formed an international competition.
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