1. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu mourned abnormally and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fishermen rowed up their boats and salvaged his real body back and forth on the river. One fisherman took out the rice balls, eggs and other food prepared for Qu Yuan, "flop, flop" into the river, saying that the fish, lobsters and crabs eat enough, they will not bite the body of the Qu doctor.

2, people see have followed suit. An old physician to bring a altar of yellow wine poured into the river, said to be the medicine to stun the dragon water beasts, so as not to harm the Qu doctor. Later, for fear of rice balls for the dragon eat, people came up with neem leaves wrapped in rice, wrapped in colorful silk, the development of brown.

3, later, on the fifth day of May each year, there is a dragon boat race, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine custom; to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.