Write historical figures or stories related to the Dragon Boat Festival

1, in memory of the great poet Qu Yuan

Qu Yuan was a Chu man in the Warring States Period. At the age of 22, he was already a leftist official, a class 3 doctor, and assisted Chu Huaiwang. At that time, Chu Huaiwang was exiled by treacherous court officials and did not accept Qu Yuan's idea of uniting with Chyi Chin. He was tricked into house arrest by lobbyist Zhang Yi, forcing him to cede land to the city, and later died of anxiety.

Qu Yuan was heartbroken when he learned that, and wrote a letter asking King Xiang of Qin to avenge King Huai. However, Xiang Wang liked treacherous people very much. He exiled Qu Yuan to the south of the Yangtze River. Later, the State of Chu was captured by the State of Qin and was in danger. Qu Yuan's desire to save the country was shattered. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 278 BC (when Qu Yuan was sixty-two), he plunged into the choppy Miluo River with great sadness and grief.

When the Chu people heard the news, they rowed after him, but when they arrived at Dongting Lake, Qu Yuan was no longer there. This has become the beginning of the dragon boat race on this day every year. Since then, people have sprinkled rice into the river at this time every year as a sacrifice to Qu Yuan. However, because all the rice sacrificed to Qu Yuan was eaten by dragons on the river, people later wrapped rice dumplings with leaves of rice dumplings, reed leaves and colored silk.

From generation to generation, it evolved into the custom of eating palm seed on the Dragon Boat Festival.

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Qu Yuan was a poet and politician of Chu State during the Warring States Period in China. Born in Zigui, Danyang, Chu. Mi surname, Qu family, human, the word is native; Since the cloud name is regular, the spirit word is even. Chu Wuwang Xiong Tong's son Qu Xian's descendants. When I was a teenager, I was well educated, knowledgeable and ambitious.

In his early years, he was trusted by Chu Huaiwang as Zuotu, and was also a doctor of San Lv, in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs. Advocate "American politics", advocate improving talents and abilities internally, improve statutes, and unite external forces to resist Qin. Slashed by nobles, he was exiled to Hanbei and Yuanxiang Valley. After the capital of Chu was breached by Qin Jun, it sank into the Miluo River and died.

Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in the history of China, the founder of China's romantic literature, the founder and representative writer of Songs of the South, and has created the tradition of "vanilla beauty", and is known as "the father of Ci Fu" and "the father of China's poetry". The appearance of Qu Yuan's works indicates that China's poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality.

His main works are Li Sao, Nine Songs, Nine Chapters and Tian Wen. Chu Ci, with Qu Yuan's works as the main body, is one of the sources of China's romantic literature, and it is also called "coquettish" with the Book of Songs, which has a far-reaching influence on later poetry.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Qu Yuan