The Dragon Boat Festival is a very important festival in the Chinese tradition, and the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and known as the four traditional festivals, in the impression that the Dragon Boat Festival seems to be an exclusive festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, in fact, the Dragon Boat Festival is by no means the exclusive use of Qu Yuan, which is a grand festival after thousands of years of evolution, the North and the South of the culture continues to merge.

I, in honor of Qu Yuan

The earliest version of this saying came from the Southern Liang Dynasty Wu Jun "Qi Harmonious Records," as well as the Southern and Northern Liang Dynasty Liang Zong Security Hours "Jing Chu chronicles" records. Legend has it that Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month, and was trapped by a dragon after his death, and the world was so saddened by this event that whenever this day came around, he would throw five-colored silk dumplings into the water in order to drive away the dragon. There is also a legend that Qu Yuan cast Miluo River, the local people heard immediately rowing boats to rescue, has been searching to the Dongting Lake, and finally did not see the body of Qu Yuan. At that time, it was a rainy day, and the boats on the lake gathered together by the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that they were salvaging the wise minister Qu Daifu, they braved the rain again and scrambled to row into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to send condolences, people will swing in the river above, after this gradually developed into a dragon boat race. It seems that the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, dragon boat racing and commemorate the Qu Yuan is related, here in the Tang Dynasty Wenxiu "Dragon Boat" poem as evidence: "Festival points since who said Dragon Boat, the ancient rumors for Qu Yuan. I can laugh at the emptiness of the Chu River, but I can't wash away the injustice of the upright ministers."

Second, in honor of Wu Zixu

The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is widely circulated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, commemorates Wu Ziken of the Spring and Autumn Period. Wu Zixu, a native of Chu, had his father and brother killed by the king of Chu. Later, Zixu abandoned his darkness and ran to Wu, helping Wu to conquer Chu, and entered the capital of Chu, Ying City, in five battles. At that time, King Ping of Chu had already died, and Zixu dug up his grave and whipped his body 300 times to avenge the killing of his father and brother. After the death of King Helu of Wu, his son Fu Chai succeeded to the throne. The Wu army had high morale and won a hundred battles, and the Yue kingdom was greatly defeated, and King Goujian of Yue asked for peace, and Fu Chai agreed to it. Zixu suggested that the state of Yue should be completely destroyed, but Fu-chai refused to listen to him, and Wu's Dazai, who had been bribed by the state of Yue, framed Zixu with slanderous rumors, and Fu-chai believed him and gave Zixu a sword, which he used to kill himself. Zixu was a loyal man, and he was very happy to die. Before he died, he said to his neighbors, "When I die, I will dig out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Wu Jing to see the Yue army entering the city to destroy Wu", and then he killed himself. Fu Chai was furious and ordered to take Zixu's body and put it in leather to throw it into the river on the fifth day of the fifth month, so it is said that the Duanwu Festival is also the day of commemorating Wu Zixu.

Third, to commemorate the filial daughter of Cao E

The third legend of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the filial daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao E to save her father from throwing himself into the river. Cao E is the Eastern Han Dynasty Shangyu people, his father drowned in the river, a few days to see the body, when the filial daughter of Cao E was only fourteen years old, day and night along the river crying. After seventeen days, she threw herself into the river on May 5, and five days later, she carried her father's body out of the river, which became a myth, and was then passed on to the governor of the county, who made Dushan erect a monument for it, and let his disciple Handan Chun make a eulogy in praise of it.

The tomb of Cao E, an old woman, is in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and the monument of Cao E was written by Pu Wangyi. To commemorate Cao E's filial piety, a Cao E Temple was built at the place where Cao E threw herself into the river, the village where she lived was renamed Cao E Town, and the place where Cao E died for her father was named Cao E River.

Four, in honor of Taimyr [tái dài]

According to the Shanxi Province history scholars, Taimyr's rule of the water from the age of earlier than the Great Yu water, Zhuanxu Emperor era water officials.

Then Taimyr for the treatment of floods, running north and south, channeling Fen water, all the way to the water to the Lingshi head of the mountain was blocked, Taimyr led the people fighting in the Lingshi head of the mountain, open the mountain drainage project is very difficult, people day and night construction food and shelter in the mountains, digging more than just the mountain.

When the water was overcrowded and no road, there is no boat, (King Yu water treatment is also on foot up and down, only three times and not into the story, according to the evidence of the Taimyr water treatment to be earlier than the Great Yu, the Taimyr water treatment to the Fen water is mainly to the water treatment of the history and legends only in Shanxi, and the Great Yu rule is the Yellow River, so the footprint of the Great Yu's water treatment and the merit to be greater than the Taimyr) the Taimyr and the people led by the opening of the mountain The source of daily food became a problem, every family on both sides of the Fen River has laborers in the water with Taimyr, in order to ensure that food can be transported to the construction site on time, without delay and affect the people's dietary security, the people came up with a way to send food to the water, wrapped in bamboo buckets and rushes and other wrapped food to rafts ride downstream to give food to people downstream of the water, on the way there is also a lot of food was eaten by fish and shrimp in the water. With the flow of population, soon (the earliest original form of zongzi) this food has spread throughout the Han Chinese people.

Now Shanxi folk, May 5 to commemorate the Fen God Taimyr, the offerings in the dumplings.

Fifth, in honor of Jie Zi push

Legend, Duke of Jin Wen Duke Chong Er was in exile for nineteen years, the minister Jie Zi push had secretly cut off the meat of his legs to cook to Chong Er to eat. Later, when Chong Er returned to his country and became the king, he rewarded all the princes and ministers who went into exile with him, but he forgot about Jie Zi Pui. Jie Zi Tui did not want to be a government official, but went to Mianshan Mountain to live in seclusion, carrying his mother behind his back. When Chong Er found out about this, he was so sorry that he went to Mian Shan to look for him, but Jie Zi Tui refused to come out. But Kai Zi Tui refused to come out of the mountain. Chong Er had no choice but to order a fire to burn the mountain, in order to force him to come out of the mountain. Who knows, the fire burned for three days, Jie Zi push actually embraced the tree and his mother was burned alive. In order to honor him, every Dragon Boat Festival day, every family in the eaves of the insertion of willow, people will be inserted in the eaves of the willow known as the "soul willow".

The ancient Dragon Boat Festival, after thousands of years of evolution and inheritance, has become one of the most important traditional festivals of the Chinese nation with the participation of all people, diversified activities, and rich in connotations. Nowadays, everyone over the Dragon Boat Festival, heritage is a culture, the continuation of folklore and folk customs, its heavy historical and cultural atmosphere, is to commemorate our bright civilization.