East Han Dynasty Cai Yong "Qin Cultivation" recorded, the first five days of the month of Puyue in memory of Jie Zi push. Cai Yong describes a passage to the effect that: the Jin state heavy ear and jie zi push, fleeing outside for 19 years, jie zi push had cut the meat on the thigh, to heavy ear fruit belly. Afterwards, Chong Er returned to his country and took the throne, but he forgot to reward Jie Zi Pui.

For this reason, Jie Zi push some resentment, wrote a "Song of the Dragon and the Snake" feeling Jin Wendong, and then carried his mother to hide in the mountains. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the mountain, and it was a very long time ago. Later, Chong Er set fire to the mountain to force Jie Zi Tui to come down. Unexpectedly, Jie Zi push and his mother was burned in the mountains.

In order to honor the memory of Jie Zi push, Jin Wen Gong ordered the first five days of the bushy moon every year, no fire, only eat cold food, zongzi is a kind of cold food. The first time I saw this, I thought it would be a good idea for me to go back to the old days, when I was a kid, and I was a kid. Although, there are many people thought it was Qingming Tongliang Festival.

The second, Qu Yuan (about 340 BC ~ 278 BC)

Qu Yuan, the sweat of this character, the earliest presented in this moment, "Shi Ji - Qu Yuan biography". In this year, there is no Qu Yuan this person private character records. According to Wen Yiduo, the Qu Yuan and Dragon Boat Festival tied all the way, is the Southern Liang Wu Jun "renewed Qi Harmonious Records" only presented.

In 278 B.C., Qin general Bai Qi led an army southward and overran the capital of Chu. Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River on this day, the fifth day of the busiest month of the year. In this year, Qu Yuan was deposed by the king of Chu political center, which is equivalent to banishment to the south of the Yangtze River region.

For this reason, the people of Chu drove the paddle, but failed to find Qu Yuan on the rippling Tear Luo River. This led to the formation of dragon boat racing. In addition, in order to prevent the dragon from eating the lost body of Qu Yuan, rice and many other foodstuffs were thrown. Subsequently, the formation of dumplings.

The third one, Wu Zixu (559 BC - 484 BC)

Wu Zixu was a native of Chu, and then, because Chu wanted to destroy his hundred mouths (his father and brother were killed by the king of Chu), Wu Zixu fled to Wu. Subsequently, he and Sun Wu became good companions, and almost destroyed the state of Chu, and exhumed the body of King Ping of Chu and whipped his body.

After King Helu of Wu, King Fu-chai of Wu ascended the throne. In the battle between Wu and Yue, the Wu army defeated Yue, and King Goujian of Yue asked for peace. Wu Zixu suggested that no one should be left behind, but Fu Chai went his own way and favored peace. Subsequently, Yue exercised vilification plan, buy * ministers, the ultimate Fu Chai gave ancient Wu Zixu.

Before the ancient, Wu Zixu said: I will dig out my eyes after me, and put them on the east gate of the national capital to see the Vietnamese army destroy Wu. The first time I saw him, he was so angry that he put his body in a leather bag and threw it into the river on the fifth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar. The descendants of Wu Zixu are thus reminded of the Dragon Boat Festival.

The fourth, Goujian (about 520 years ago - 465 years ago)

Goujian, Si surname, alias Hatsuasa, Miscanthus, Xia Yu descendants, the son of the king of Yue, the son of the king of Yue, the end of the years of the state of the Yue ruler. After losing the battle for supremacy with Wu, under the deputy of Fan Li, the state of Yue quickly regained its strength and eventually defeated Wu.

In the process of regaining strength, the state of Yue did a lot of things, full of trickery and ingenuity. But there was one: maneuvering the navy by rowing dragon boats. This is to prevent Wu from realizing the idea of practicing army. This is documented in the biographies of the Yuezhi.

Because of the practice of the hook practice the use of dragon boat approach, and now the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Racing is one of the key items. Therefore, some people say, the festival of the Dragon Boat Festival, but also for the memory of the hook trample and set up and used.

The fifth, Cao E (130-143)

Cao E is a Shangyu people in the Eastern Han Dynasty, his father drowned in the river, several days to see the body, the filial daughter of the Cao E was only fourteen years old, and cried day and night along the river. After seventeen days, on the fifth day of the month of Pugilism, the sky threw himself into the river. Unexpectedly, five days later, Cao E embraced his father's body surfaced, the crowd was surprised.

Although, there is still a theory that Cao E's father, Cao Xu, drowned in the Shun River on the fifth day of Puyue to welcome the god of Wu (Wu Zixu) in the festival **. After seventeen days, on the 22nd day of the month of Pu also threw himself into the river, and five days later, Cao E's body embraced his father's body surfaced.

But either way, Cao E is mythologized. Cao E lived in the village town that was renamed Cao E town, Shun River was changed to Cao E River, cast the river where the construction of Cao E temple, there is still the famous "Cao E monument" article as evidence. The first five days of the month of Puyuma has become a festival of remembrance.

Sixth, Zhou Chu (236-297)

Zhou Chu is Jiangsu Yixing people, the end of the Three Kingdoms Eastern Wu in the early years of the Western Jin dynasty, "swinging the head of the gold is not changed," "Zhou Chu in the removal of three evils "The allusion to Zhou Chu is about him. When he was young, he was called "the third evil"; then he went upward with all his strength and became a pillar of the country.

History says, in the Western Jin Dynasty, Zhou Chu has served as a governor of Xinping, Guanghan governor, Chu Neishi, scattered ride standing service, the Royal Historian and other positions, matters of merit, upright; offenders of eminence, was sent to the north-west of the crime of dibei, Qiang and other tribal mutinies, was killed on the frontier.

It is worthwhile to pay attention to is that the word "Dragon Boat Festival" was first presented in the Western Jin Dynasty famous minister Zhou Zhu's "Records of the Terroir", this literature has become a contemporary people to review the Dragon Boat Festival, such as the traditional customs of the festival of the nervous reference. Therefore, some people think that the Dragon Boat Festival at the moment, but also in memory of Zhou.