The Dragon Boat Festival origin and fable Dragon Boat Festival are the

ancient traditional holiday, the beginning to China's Spring and

Autumn Period Warring States time, until now already some more than

2,000 years history. Dragon Boat Festival's origin and the fable are

very many, here only introduces following four kinds: The source to

commemorates Qu Yuan according to "Shihchi" "Qu Yuan the Jia fresh

biography" the record, Qu Yuan, is Spring and Autumn Period time

Minister Chu Huaiwang. He initiates to lift virtuous giving energy,

rich the country and strengthen the army, advocated strong association Qi Kangqin, encounters

person's the and so on expensive clan orchid intense opposition, Qu

Yuan suffers greedily goes to the duty, is expelled the capital city,

exiles Yuan, the Hunan basin. He in the exile, wrote down has been

concerned about country and people "Li Sao", "Day Asked", "Nine Songs"

and so on immortal poem, the alone style, affected profoundly (thus,

Dragon Boat Festival also called poet festival ). 278 B.C., the Qin

armed force breaks through the Chu country Kyoto. Qu Yuan saw own

motherland are invaded, feels as if a knife were piercing heart, but

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throughout does not endure to discard own motherland, on May 5, after

has written down makes "Bosom Sand", holds the stone t

o throw

the Miluo river body to die, has composed a tune grand patriotism

music movement by own life. After fable Qu Yuan died, the Chu country

common people are sorrowful exceptionally, well up in abundance to

Miluo the waterfront are grieved by reminder of deceased Qu Yuan. The

fishermen delimit the ships, back and forth salvages his true body in

the river. Has a fisherman to put out food and so on food group, egg

which prepares for Qu Yuan, "splash, splash" throws in the river, said

was lets the fish lobster crab eat to the full, could not go nips

Doctor Qu's body. After the people see imitate in abundance. A senior

doctor brings world realgar wine to pour into the river, said wants

the medicine corona flood dragon marine animals, in order to avoid

injures Doctor Qu. Afterwards for feared the food group eats for the

flood dragon, the people find out with the melia japonica leaf rice,

outside entangles the color silk, develops Cheng Zongzi. Later, in

Every year in May fifth day, will have the dragon boat boat race, has

eaten the steamed rice dumpling, drinks the realgar wine the custom;

To this comes commemorative patriotic poet Qu Yuan. The source to

commemorates Wu Zixu Dragon Boat Festival the second fable, spreads

area Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces very broadly

, is commemorates the

Spring and Autumn Period time (the B.C.E. 770-- previous 476 years) Wu

Zixu. Wu Zixu, the Chu country person, father and brother kills for Chu king,

afterwards the child assisted rushed to the Wu country,

helped Wu Fachu, five fought enters Chu Duying the city. At that time

Chu Pingwang has died, sub- assists flogs a corpse 300, to the

newspaper kills the enmity. After Wu Wanghe the hut dies, its

sub- husband difference continues the position , the Wu armed force

morale high, is ever-victorious, jumps over the country rout,

Yue Wang Goujian please with, the husband difference permits it.

assists the suggestion, should thoroughly eliminate more the country,

the husband misses does not listen, Wu Guoda butchers, is jumped over

the country bribe, the slanderous talk frames the child to assist,

husband bad letter it, bestows the child to assist the treasured

sword, sub- Xu Yici dies. Sub- Xu Benwei loyal is good, is unafraid of

death, said in front of dying to the neighbor person: "After I died,

digs out my eye is hanging east gate of in the Wujing, looked more the

country army enters the city to extinguish Wu", then suicides dies,

the husband misses Wen Yan to be angry, is assisted the wrench the

corpse to install in the leather invests on May 5 the big river

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therefore hands down Dragon Boat Festival also for commemorates date

of the Wu Zixu. The source to commemoration Cao the E Dragon

Boat Festival's third fable , is for commemorates the Eastern Han

Dynasty (the A.D. 23--220 year) Cao Ejiu the father to throw

the river. Cao E is the Eastern Han Dynasty Shangyu person , the father

drowns Yu Jiangzhong, on severalth does not see the corpse, at that

time filial daughter Cao Enian the only 14 years old, the day and night along

the river wailed. Crossed 17 day, also throws the river in May 5, five

will hold the father corpse in the future. Passes on in light of this

for the myth, subsequently hands down to the county government office

county magistrate, made still to set up a stone monument for it, pure

lets his disciple Handan make the eulogy refined language praise .

The filial daughter grave of the Cao E, in now Zhejiang Shaoxing, rear-drive Cao

Ebei is the Jin king righteousness book. The posterity for

commemorates the Cao E's filial piety festival, the river place

constructs Cao Emiao in Cao Etou, she lives the villages and small towns change name as Cao Ezhen, Cao Exun the father place choose a

name as Cao'e Jiang. Source Yu Guyue the nationality totem offers a

sacrifice to the modern massive archaeological finds and the

archaeology research

confirmed that, Middle and lower reaches Yangtze

River general areas, in the neolites time, some one geometry imprint

ceramic remains for the characteristic culture. Should remain the race

is a worship dragon totem clan and tribe ---- history calls

hundred races according to the expert inference. On the unearthed

earthenware decorative design in a utensil and the historical fable

show, they have break send tattoo the custom, lives to the region of

rivers and lakes, compares oneself to others is the dragon

descendants. Its production tool, are massive or the stone implement,

also has the shovel, the chisel and so on the small bronzeware. As in

the daily necessities pots and blows, the fever boils food Seal Tao

Ding is they unique, is one of they race group symbols. Still had

hundred people until the the Qin and Han Dynasty time, Dragon Boat

Festival was they establishes uses in to offer a sacrifice to

ancestor's holiday. In in the number millennium historical

development, the majority of hundred Vietnamese people's already fused

in the Han Nationality to go, other parts evolved for south many

national minorities, therefore, Dragon Boat Festival has become the

entire Chinese nation's holiday.