Speaking of the "Dragon Boat Festival", everyone knows that this day is to commemorate the famous patriotic poet "Qu Yuan", but about the origin of the "Dragon Boat Festival", there are many wonderful legends among the folk, in order to let more people understand the traditional festivals of our country, the following will be the "Dragon Boat Festival" The other versions of the origin of the "Dragon Boat Festival" are sorted out one by one to share with you.
1. Commemorating the patriotic poet Qu Yuan:
Qu Yuan is the minister of the King of Chu Huai in the Spring and Autumn Period, he once advocated a rich country and a strong army, and united to resist Qin, but was opposed by Zilan and others, at the instigation of some nobles, Qu Yuan was driven out of the capital and sent to exile to the Yuan and Hunan Valleys, during his exile, he wrote the immortal poems of "Lisao", "Nine Songs", "Tianwen" and other worries about the country and the people, in 278 BC, the Qin State broke through the Chu State in one fell swoop, Qu Yuan looked at his country was invaded and his heart was like a knife, on the day of May 5, he wrote his masterpiece "Huaisha" After the death of Qu Yuan, the people of Chu were very sad, they came to the Miluo River to pay tribute to Qu Yuan, the fishermen rowed up the boat to salvage Qu Yuan's body, the people on the shore put the prepared rice balls and eggs and other food into the river to feed the fish and shrimp, so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body, everyone was afraid that the rice balls thrown into the river were eaten by the dragon in the water, so they wrapped the rice with leaves, and the outside was wrapped with ribbons, and then slowly evolved into the rice dumplings that every household had to eat during the Dragon Boat Festival, and as time went by, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival every year, dragon boats would be rowed all over the country, eat zongzi, drink realgar wine, etc., in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
2. Commemorating the filial daughter Cao E:
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a famous filial daughter named Cao E, her filial piety touched the heavens and the earth, and it is said that "Wu Zixu" was sacrificed on May 5 Cao E's father Cao Xu accidentally fell to the Shunjiang River (now Cao E River) at that time Cao E was only 14 years old, in order to find his father is not tired, crying along the river day and night, but still do not see his father's body for several days, the young Cao E is unwilling to accept the fact of his father's death, and can not survive the thoughts of his father, on the seventeenth day of his father falling into the water Cao E also threw himself into the river, but the strange thing is that five days after Cao E threw himself into the river, people were surprised to see Cao E and Cao Xu's father and daughter The bodies of the two hugged each other tightly and surfaced, the villagers all thought that Cao E's filial piety touched the world, and people changed the name of the village where Cao E lived to Cao E Town in order to commemorate this filial piety, renamed the river of martyrdom as Cao'e River, and built a temple in the local area to comfort Cao'e's filial piety.
3. Commemoration of Wu Zixu:
Wu Zixu, a native of Chu, his father and brother were killed by the king of Chu, and later Wu Zixu went through several setbacks to help Wu to attack Chu, and entered the Chu capital Yingcheng in five battles. At that time, the king of Chuping was dead, Wu Zixu finally avenged the revenge of his father and brother being killed, a wash of grievances, after the death of King Wu, his son and husband sent to succeed to the throne, Wu army's morale was high, and then defeated the Yue country, the king of Yue Goujian asked and the husband to agree, but Wu Zixu suggested that the Yue country should be completely eliminated, the husband did not listen, Wu Dazai Bo Yao was bribed by the Yue country, slander and framed Wu Zixu, Wu Wangfu heard the slander, gave Wu Zixu a sword to kill himself, Wu Zixu was loyal and regarded death as home, before he died he said to his neighbors: After I die, please gouge out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of the capital of Wu to see the Yue**The team entered the city to destroy Wu, and died after saying that. The husband was furious when he heard this, and ordered someone to put Wu Zixu's body in a leather bag, and put it into the Qiantang River on May 5, and then it was really as Wu Zixu said, the state of Wu was broken by the Yue country, and since then, there is a shocking tide of the Qiantang River every year, it is said that Wu Zixu rode a white horse car, stood at the head of the tide, and roared at the snow injustice to the king of Wu and the traitor, therefore, people called the Qiantang tide "Wu Xu tide", also known as the "angry tide".