To commemorate one of China's greatest romantic poets. Qu Yuan.
Qu Yuan is one of China's greatest romantic poets and the earliest known poet and great statesman in our country. He founded the literary genre "Chu Ci" (that is, he founded The style of "Ci Fu") also created the tradition of "vanilla beauty"
According to the "Biography of Qu Yuan Jia Sheng" in "Historical Records", Qu Yuan advocated the promotion of talents and talents, enriched the country and strengthened the army, and advocated alliances. Qi resisted Qin, but was strongly opposed by the aristocrat Zilan and others. Qu Yuan was dismissed from his post and was expelled from the capital and exiled to the Yuan and Xiang River basins. In exile, he wrote "Li Sao" and "Li Sao", which were concerned about the country and the people. Immortal poems such as "Heavenly Questions" and "Nine Songs" are unique in style and have far-reaching influence (therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Poet's Day). In 278 BC, the Qin army conquered Kyoto, the state of Chu. Seeing that his homeland was invaded, Qu Yuan was heartbroken. It was like being cut by a knife, but he could not bear to abandon his motherland. On May 5, after writing his final work "Huaisha", he bouldered into the Miluo River and died, composing a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life. .
It is said that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu State were extremely sad and flocked to the Miluo River to pay their respects to Qu Yuan. Fishermen rowed their boats back and forth on the river to salvage his true body. The rice balls, eggs and other food prepared by Qu Yuan were thrown into the river "plop, plop", saying that when the fish, lobsters and crabs were full, they would not bite Dr. Qu's body. After seeing this, an old doctor followed suit. Then they took a jar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying it was to stun dragons and water animals so as not to harm Doctor Qu. Later, in order to fear that the rice balls would be eaten by the dragons, people came up with the idea of ??wrapping the rice with neem leaves and wrapping it with colorful silk, which developed into rice dumplings. .
Since then, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, there has been a custom of rowing dragon boats, eating rice dumplings, and drinking realgar wine to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
In memory of Wu Zixu: The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival is widely circulated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It commemorates Wu Zixu, a famous member of the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC-476 BC), a native of Chu, whose father and brother were killed by the King of Chu, and later his son. Xu abandoned the secret and turned to the bright, and rushed to the state of Wu to help Wu attack Chu. After five battles, he entered Yingcheng, the capital of Chu. At that time, King Ping of Chu was dead, so Zixu dug up the grave and whipped the corpse three hundred times to avenge the death of his father and brother. After the death of King Helu of Wu, his son Fucha succeeded to the throne. The Wu army had high morale and won every battle. The country of Yue was defeated. King Goujian of Yue asked for peace, and Fucha agreed. Zixu suggested that the Yue Kingdom should be completely eliminated, but Fu Chai refused to listen, and the Wu State slaughtered him. He was bribed by the Yue Kingdom and framed Zixu with slanderous words. Fu Chai believed it and gave Zixu a sword, and Zixu died with it. Zixu was a loyal man and regarded death as home. Before he died, he said to his neighbors: "After I die, dig out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Wu Jing to watch the Yue army enter the city and destroy Wu." Then he committed suicide and died. After hearing this, he was furious and ordered Zixu's body to be packed in leather and thrown into the river on May 5th. Therefore, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.