The Dragon Boat Festival is in honor of which historical person

The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet of China. Legend has it that when the Qin state broke through the capital of Chu, Qu Yuan watched the destruction of his family's country and was in great sorrow. After writing his final work "Huai Sha", he threw himself into the Miluo River with a stone in his arms. When the local people heard about this, they immediately rowed a boat to rescue him, but they could not even find Qu Yuan's body. So in order to send their condolences, every year people would boat on the river and throw rice balls into the river to commemorate Qu Yuan.

Duanwu Festival is to commemorate which historical person

Duanwu Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Festival, ZhengYang Festival, TianZhong Festival, etc., the festival is in the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is the traditional Chinese folk festival. The Dragon Boat Festival originates from the worship of heavenly signs and evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in the ancient times. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally created by the ancestors of Wu and Yue in the south to worship the dragon ancestor, and later it was also used as a festival to honor Qu Yuan. In addition, it also commemorates Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui.

Among the legends of the Dragon Boat Festival, it is said that it commemorates Cao E, a filial daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty who saved her father's life by throwing herself into the river. 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 14 years old, day and night along the river crying. After seventeen days, she threw herself into the river on May 5, and carried her father's body out five days later. The story was passed down as a myth, and then it was passed down to the governor of the county, who made Dushan erect a monument for it, and let his disciple Handan Chun make a eulogy in praise of it. Therefore, according to legend, the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E.