Qu Yuan what festival is related to

Qu Yuan is associated with the Dragon Boat Festival. Qu Yuan is associated with the festival, mainly because to establish Qu Yuan so a typical, so that the general public to learn to understand the implementation of the idea of loyalty to the ruler and love of the country. Rulers high roof, the emperor changed dozens of, commemorate Qu Yuan is every dynasty to adhere to, so later people put the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

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. Fishermen rowed up their boats and went back and forth on the river to salvage his real body. 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 doctor brought a altar of yellow wine into the river, said to be the medicine to stun the dragon water beasts, so as not to harm Dr. Qu.

Later for fear of rice balls for the dragon eat, people came up with neem leaves wrapped rice, wrapped around the colorful silk, after the development of brown, on the fifth day of May each year, there is a dragon boat race, eat zongzi, drink andrographis wine custom; to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

Duanwu Festival, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bath Orchid Festival. It is a traditional cultural festival popular in China as well as the countries in the Chinese character cultural circle, originated in China.