1. The widely circulated view of "commemorating historical figures" holds that the Dragon Boat Festival originated in commemoration of Qu Yuan, according to Wu Yun's "Qi Yi" and Zong Ao's "The Chronicle of Jingchu". Others think it is to commemorate Wu Zixu and Cao E, etc. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other foods prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs were full and would not bite the doctor. People followed suit after seeing it. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he would stun the dragon water beast with medicine so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. Later, people were afraid that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, so they came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and then wrapping it with colored silk to make it develop into brown seeds. After that, on the fifth day of May every year, there is the custom of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine. In memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

2. Mr. Wen Yiduo believes that the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival for ancient Baiyue people to hold dragon totem worship activities. He demonstrated his views in detail in the two papers "Dragon Boat Festival Examination" and "Dragon Boat Festival History Education" (see the complete works of Wen Yiduo). The development of archaeological research and a large number of unearthed cultural relics confirm that Mr. Wen Yiduo's textual research is scientific. The Pearl River Basin, the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin in China are the common cradles of ancient culture in China. According to the combination of the excavated original cultural relics and historical records, there once lived a people who worshipped the dragon totem in the south of China, that is, the Guyue nationality (also known as Baiyue nationality), and the Dragon Boat Festival was founded by them to worship the ancestors of the dragon.

3. People think that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from an evil month and an evil day (see Zhang's Dragon Boat Festival is not due to Qu Yuan). People in the Han Dynasty believed that May 5th was an evil month and day, and there was a custom of "not mentioning May", that is, babies born on May 5th could not be raised by any sex. Once raised, men will harm their fathers and women will harm their mothers. There are even some sayings, such as "When May comes, you will never move again" and "When you build a house in May, your head will be bald". This custom has been popular since the Warring States and the Han Dynasty at the latest. This custom is recorded in Lun Heng by Chong, Custom Tong by Ying Shao and the Book of the Later Han Dynasty.

It is said that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the solstice in summer (see the Origin of Dragon Boat Festival by Liu Deqian for details). The founder of the summer solstice theory is Mr. Huang Shi. 1963, in his book History of the Customs and Habits of the Dragon Boat Festival (published by Hong Kong Qinxing Bookstore 1963), he proposed that the Dragon Boat Festival originated in ancient times, with three generations flowing in parallel, and expanded into rivers in Qin and Han Dynasties and lakes and seas in Tang and Song Dynasties. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the summer solstice theory, and scholars have studied it from a broader perspective. 1983, Mr. Liu Deqian thought that the Dragon Boat Festival came from the summer solstice in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties in another article, On the Origin of Dragon Boat Festival (Knowledge of Literature and History, No.5, 1983), and proposed that Qu Yuan had nothing to do with "fighting a hundred herbs" or "collecting miscellaneous medicines" during the Dragon Boat Festival. Liu Deqian put forward three main reasons in Another Story about the Origin of Dragon Boat Festival and Interesting Talk about Traditional Festivals in China: The authoritative book "The Story of the Year of Jingchu" did not mention the festival custom of eating zongzi on the fifth day of May, but was written on the solstice festival in summer. As for the race, Du Taiqing's Jade Candle Collection in Sui Dynasty listed it as an entertainment activity from summer to the sun, which shows that it is not necessarily to salvage Qu Yuan, a great poet who threw himself into the river. Some contents in the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as "stepping on a hundred herbs", "fighting a hundred herbs" and "collecting miscellaneous medicines", have nothing to do with Qu Yuan. The first explanation of the Dragon Boat Festival in Ji Hua Li is: "The sun shines, and the Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, so it can also be called midsummer Festival. Therefore, the earliest origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is the summer solstice.