1. The widely circulated view of "commemoration of historical figures", based on the Liang Liang's Wu Jun's "Renewal of Qi Harmonious Records" and Zong Purin's "Jing and Chu Years and Times Records", believes that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the commemoration of Qu Yuan. It is also believed to commemorate Wu Zixu, Cao E, and so on. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were in great sorrow and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to him. Fishermen rowed up their boats and salvaged his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out for Qu Yuan prepared rice balls, eggs and other food, "flop, flop" thrown into the river, said that the fish and lobsters and crabs eat enough, will not go to bite the body of Dr. Qu. People see have followed suit. An old physician to bring a altar of yellow wine poured into the river, said to be drug stunned dragon water beasts, so as not to harm Dr. Qu. Later, for fear of rice balls for the dragon to eat, people came up with neem leaves wrapped rice, wrapped in colorful silk, the development of brown. Later, on the fifth day of May every year, there is a dragon boat race, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine custom; in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

2, Mr. Wen Yiduo that the Dragon Boat Festival is the ancient Baiyue held a dragon totem worship activities of the festival, he in the "Dragon Boat Festival Examination" and "Dragon Boat Festival of historical education" (see "Wen Yiduo complete works") two papers in detail to prove his point. The development of archaeological research and the excavation of a large number of unearthed artifacts have confirmed that Mr. Wen Yiduo's testimony is scientific. The Pearl River Valley, Yangtze River Valley and Yellow River Valley in China are the birthplace of the ancient culture of the Chinese nation. From the excavation of the primitive cultural remains and historical records combined to see, south of the Yangtze River in China had generations of breeding a worship of the dragon totem community, that is, the ancient Yue (also known as the Baiyue), the Dragon Boat Festival is the creation of the festival they used to sacrifice the dragon ancestor.

3, that the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the evil month of the evil day (see Zhang Xinqin, "Dragon Boat Festival is not due to Qu Yuan"). Han Dynasty people believe that the fifth of May for the evil month, the evil day, and there is "not to lift the May child" custom, that is, the baby born on the fifth day, whether male or female can not raise adults. Once raised, the male harm father, female harm mother. Even appeared in the "May to the official, to the free not to move", "May cover the house, people bald" and so on. This custom at least from the Warring States began to popularize, until the Han Dynasty prevailed. This custom in the Han Wang Chong's "on the balance", Ying Shao "customs" and "after the Han book", many records.

4, that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the summer solstice (see Liu Deqian "" Dragon Boat "" origin and another ""). The first advocate of the summer solstice said Mr. Huang Shi, in 1963, he was in the "Dragon Boat Rituals and Customs History" (published by Hong Kong Chin Hing Book Co., Ltd. in 1963), a book, the Dragon Boat Festival, such as a trickle of water in the ancient times, the three generations of the convergence of the river, the Qin and Han Dynasty, expanding into the river, the Tang and Song Dynasty, the hundreds of rivers into the lake and the sea. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the summer solstice said after the world, scholars through a hundred, from a wider perspective to study. 1983, Mr. Liu Deqian in the "Dragon Boat Festival origin and another" ("Knowledge of literature and history" 1983 5), that the Dragon Boat Festival from the summer, Shang, Zhou period of the summer solstice, and put forward the Dragon Boat Festival in the "bucket of herbs", "and suggested that the Duanwu Festival has nothing to do with Qu Yuan. Liu Deqian in the "Dragon Boat Festival" and the origin of a "and" traditional Chinese festivals, put forward three main reasons: the authoritative work of the years and times "Jing Chu years and times" did not mention the fifth of May to eat zongzi holiday customs, but to eat zongzi written in the summer solstice festival. As for the race, the Sui dynasty Du Taiqing made the "jade candles BaoDian" it into the summer solstice recreational activities, visible is not necessarily in order to salvage the great poet Qu Yuan cast into the river. Some elements of the Dragon Boat Festival customs, such as "stepping on a hundred grasses", "fighting a hundred grasses", "picking miscellaneous medicines" and so on, actually has nothing to do with Qu Yuan. The first explanation of the Dragon Boat Festival in the "Times and Favors of China" is: "The sun is shining, and the Dragon Boat Festival is in the middle of summer, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Festival of the Sky. Thus, the Dragon Boat Festival is the earliest origin of the summer solstice.