In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Zixu, a loyal minister of the state of Wu, died unjustly and was transformed into a god of Tao, and the world mourned and sacrificed to him, so there was the Dragon Boat Festival. Wu Zixu was a native of Chu, and his father and brother were both killed by the king of Chu. Zixu was a loyal man, and he looked upon death as a homecoming. Before he died, he said to his neighbors: "After I die, I will dig out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Wu, to see the Yue team enter the city to destroy Wu", and then he cut his own throat and died, and he was ordered to take Zixu's body and put it into a leather bag to throw it into the river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

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Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, a poet of the Chu state during the Warring States period, who threw himself into the Tear Luo River on the fifth day of the Ming dynasty to die a martyr's death. Qu Ping, the word Yuan, usually known as Qu Yuan, since the cloud name Zhengze, the number of Lingjun, Han nationality, the end of the Warring States period in the State of Chu Danyang, Chu King Xiongtong's son of the descendants of Qu Yuan. Although Qu Yuan was loyal to King Huai of Chu, he was repeatedly ostracized, and after the death of King Huai, he was exiled because King Hai Xiang listened to the slander, and eventually threw himself into the Miluo River and died.