In memory of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, the Chinese people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and this custom later spread to Korea, Japan, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries.
Qu Yuan, who lived in the Warring States period more than 2,300 years ago, was ambitious and showed amazing talents when he was young, and he was trusted by Chu Huaiwang. Left disciple? According to Sima Qian's "Historical Records", what happened to him? Discuss state affairs with the king? Outside? Meet guests and deal with princes? , is the minister in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs.
The Warring States period was a chaotic period in which Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin fought for hegemony. After the reform of Shang Yang, Qin became stronger and stronger, and often attacked six countries. At that time, only Chu and Qi could compete with it. In view of the situation at that time, Qu Yuan advocated improving internal affairs and uniting with Qin in foreign countries, thus infringing on the interests of the upper ruling class, and was squeezed out and framed by Chu Huaiwang's favorite, Zheng Xiu, Shangguan Doctor and Lingyin Zijiao, who were bribed by Qin State.
The confused Huai Wang listened to the slanderers, alienated Qu Yuan, and exiled him to Hanbei. As a result, Chu Huaiwang was deceived by the State of Qin to be a prisoner for three years and died in a foreign country.
Qu Yuan was extremely angry when he saw all this. He resolutely opposed humiliating surrender to the state of Qin, which was more seriously persecuted by his political opponents. King Xiang of Chu, who was newly enthroned, was more fatuous than his father and exiled Qu Yuan to a more remote place than Hanbei.
During his long exile, Qu Yuan did not give in. He sticks to his political opinions and never goes with the flow. Pick up a pen and express your love for the motherland, reprimand? Small group? Wrong country, leaving immortal poems for future generations.
Qu Yuan was the first greatest and most outstanding romantic poet in the history of China literature. Later generations called his works? Chu ci? . The masterpiece is Li Sao, which is the longest lyric poem in Qu Yuan's works, with 373 sentences and 2,777 words. The poem describes the blow and persecution suffered by the poet to carry out his own political opinions, and deeply expresses his inner pain, loyalty to the people and the motherland.
Qu Yuan's mental and life suffering during his long exile journey can be imagined. One day, while he was singing by the river, he met a hermit who was fishing. When the hermit saw that he was haggard and haggard, he advised him? Don't stand on ceremony? 、? Be easygoing? In cahoots with the powerful. Qu Yuan said:? I would rather go to Xiangliu and be buried in the belly of a river fish; Can Ann be covered with the dust of the secular world with the white of Hao Hao? In 278 AD, the capital of Chu State was attacked by the Qin army, and the poet suffered a great mental blow. Seeing that the country was broken, he was unable to exert his strength. He was so worried that in extreme disappointment and pain, the poet came to the Miluo River in the east of the Yangtze River, bowing his weight. He was about sixty-two years old when he died, which was the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
More than two thousand years, this is not a short moment in the long river of history, but despite river of no return, the image of the poet Qu Yuan remains in people's hearts. Nowadays, on the Dragon Boat Festival, people still row dragon boats in rivers and tie zongzi with colorful silk thread to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan, which shows that the poet's works and spirit will last forever!
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