What are the stories of Dragon Boat Festival

The stories of Dragon Boat Festival include: commemorating Qu Yuan, commemorating Wu Zixu, commemorating Jie Zitui, Goujian drilling the navy, commemorating the filial daughter Cao'e, and so on.

1, in honor of Qu Yuan

278 BC, the Qin army broke through the capital of Chu, Qu Yuan saw his motherland was invaded, his heart was like a knife, but always can not bear to give up their own motherland, on the fifth of May, in the writing of the final work "Huai Sha", hold the stone thrown into the Miluo River to kill themselves; the later generations of people to commemorate the Qu Yuan, the formation of the Dragon Boat Festival.

2, in honor of Wu Zixu

Wu Zixu, the name of the member of the state of Chu, his father and brother were killed by the king of Chu, and then Zixu abandoned the darkness and ran to the state of Wu, the state of Wu won the war against the state of Yue, the king of Yue asked to make peace, Wu Zixu suggested that should be completely eliminated from Yue, but the king of Wu agreed to the king's invitation to make peace, and ultimately, the state of Wu fell, and Wu Zixu threw himself into the river on the fifth day of the fifth month, and so the Duanwu Festival was also said to be a day in honor of Wu Zixu.

3, in honor of Jie Zi push

Jie Zi push is the cold food festival and the Qingming Festival origin of the legend of the protagonist, but there are also believed to be the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival and Jie Zi push related. According to Cai Yong's qin music work, "qin manipulation", the Dragon Boat Festival is in honor of the sage Jie Zi push.

4, Goujian practicing water army

Song dynasty Gao Cheng "things of the source" publication, the Dragon Boat Festival is derived from the Spring and Autumn period, King Goujian so the day of the practice of the water army. Things primitive" cited "the Yue Di Chuan" cloud: "the race started in the Yue Wang Goujian, now the dragon boat is also."

5, commemorating the filial daughter Cao E

Cao E is the Eastern Han Dynasty Shangyu people, his father drowned in the river, several days to see the body, the filial daughter of Cao E was only fourteen years old, day and night along the river crying. After seventeen days, she threw herself into the river on May 5, and five days later, she carried out her father's body. The story was passed down as a myth, and was then passed down to the governor of the county, who made Dushan erect a monument for it, and had his disciple Handan Chun make a eulogy in praise of it. Therefore, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate the filial daughter of Cao E.