Is the Dragon Boat Festival first to commemorate Qu Yuan? I remember when I was a child, I heard on TV that it was to celebrate the harvest. What is it like ~

The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, who committed suicide in the Miluo River on the fifth day of May.

It is said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the local people immediately rowed for rescue, and all the way to Dongting Lake, but Qu Yuan's body was never seen. It was raining at that time, and the boats on the lake gathered at the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that it was to salvage the sage Dr. Qu, they went out in the rain and rushed into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to mourn, people rowed on rivers, and later it gradually developed into a dragon boat race. People were afraid that fish in the river would eat his body, so they went home and threw rice balls into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from ruining Qu Yuan's body. Later, eating zongzi became a custom. Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival are all related to commemorating Qu Yuan.

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