At present, the only records of Qu Yuan's suicide are Sima Qian's Biographies of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng. Sima Qian quoted Qu Yuan's Fisherman as an argument in this biography. After Qu Yuan was exiled, he looked haggard and haggard. He met a fisherman on the Miluo River. The fisherman asked, why did you sink into this field? Qu yuan said, the world is cloudy and I am alone, everyone is drunk and I wake up alone, so I am unlucky. The fisherman said, to be a man, we should judge the situation, and those who know the times are heroes. Why can't you go with them? Qu Yuan said, I would rather jump into Xiangjiang River and be buried in the belly of a fish than defile my innocent body.
The fisherman rowed away with a smile, and then Qu Yuan sank into the raging river with a stone in his arms.
Zhu, a famous scholar, believes that it is very arbitrary for Sima Qian to easily conclude that Qu Yuan died of suicide based on a "Fisherman". Mao Dun and Guo Moruo once verified that The Fisherman was not written by Qu Yuan, but by Qu Yuan's student Song Yu. In fact, Qu Yuan did not commit suicide, but he killed him. The man who killed him was Chu Huaiwang's favorite concubine, Zheng Xiu. The reason why Zheng Xiu pursued Qu Yuan was not vendetta, but love murder.
Qu Yuan used to be a red man around Chu Huaiwang. After a long time, he had an affair with the enchanting Zheng Xiu. Qu Yuan wrote a poem "Nine Songs", in which there is a lady Xiang, the god of Xiang water, who is the daughter of two concubines. Qu Yuan expressed his infinite attachment to Mrs. Xiang in his poem, which moved him deeply and became the most consumed and emotional poem in Nine Songs. This poem reveals a message that Mrs. Xiang and Qu Yuan had a secret tryst in a remote place.
The woman who most conforms to the prototype of Mrs. Xiang is Zheng Xiu. Xiang is a metaphor for Chu, and his wife is a metaphor for his favorite concubine.
Why did Zheng Xiu kill the person he loved the most? As Chu Huaiwang was under house arrest by the Qin people, the newly appointed King Xiang of Chu needed to clean up the old forces in Chu Huaiwang. In order to keep his wealth and glory, Zheng Xiu attacked Qu Yuan.
The old man once highly restored the specific scene of Qu Yuan's death. Qu Yuan: Qu Zi is endowed with Chu Sao, holding a murder knife. Busy growing peppers and orchids jumped into Wan Li. ?
Chu Sao is Li Sao. If you leave, don't leave Sao, hate also. Li Sao means to leave sorrow and not hate. Sima Qian said: "Qu Yuan's exile is based on Li Sao." Qu Yuan was exiled by King Xiang of Chu and ran all the way to the Miluo River. Zheng Xiu sent an assassin with high martial arts skills to assassinate him. When Qu Yuan wrote Li Sao, he drew his sword against the enemy, fought a battle and retreated to a place of wormwood. No way back, he had to throw himself into the river.
Zhu said that Qu Yuan was not thrown into the river, but was caught by an assassin, put into a sack and drowned in the river. When Qu Yuan was killed, a fisherman happened to pass by and witnessed the whole process of the assassin's killing. The people of Chu were scared by the arrogance of the king of Chu and dared not tell the truth, so they used dragon boat races to compare Qu Yuan's being chased by killers on the river, and zongzi to compare Qu Yuan's real cause of death. Glutinous rice symbolizes Qu Yuan's body, bamboo leaves symbolize his sack, and the straw rope tied with zongzi symbolizes the rope tied in his pocket. Throwing the wrapped zongzi into the river is a metaphor for the truth that Qu Yuan was drowned. Later generations don't know what it means. It is a great fallacy to say that zongzi is thrown into the river to feed the fish and not to let the fish eat Qu Yuan's body when they are hungry.
Or, since Zongzi symbolizes Qu Yuan, why do people still eat Zongzi? In fact, the earliest zongzi was not eaten, but was offered as a sacrifice. Later, I found that zongzi was delicious, but it was a pity to throw it away, so I ate it. It's like eating a cold pig's head for ancestor worship. Actually, eating zongzi has deviated from the original intention of the memorial service.