There are different opinions about the legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, among which the most heard legend is about Qu Yuan.
01.Qu Yuan threw himself into the river.
Qu Yuan was a statesman during the Warring States period and the greatest patriotic poet. Receive a good education from an early age. Erudite and ambitious, he won the trust of King Chu Huai in his early years. Because he advocated a foreign alliance to resist Qin, he was excluded and slandered by other nobles, and was finally exiled. Later, it was learned that the Qin army broke through the Yingdu of Chu and sank the Miluo River. People were moved by Qu Yuan's patriotic deeds, so the day he threw himself into the river was positioned as the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate, and every day in the future, people would wrap zongzi, race dragon boats, and hang wormwood to commemorate him.
Sadness is sad and parting, and happiness is newBosom friend. - Nine Songs, Shao Si Ming".
But the grass and trees are scattered, and they are afraid of beautyTwilight. - Lisao".
Live with heaven and earth, and live with the sun and the moonThe same light. - Chapter 9: Shijiang".
Don't be sudden, talk about leisureTolerant of. - Nine Songs, Mrs. Xiang
If someone is in the mountains, he will be shaltedLixi with a female dill. - Nine Songs, Mountain Ghosts
Lisao", "Nine Songs" and "Nine Chapters" are Qu Yuan's masterpieces, which have made great contributions to the literary creation of later generations.
02.Cao E saves her father.
Cao E is a native of Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, her father Cao Xu drowned in the Shunjiang River (now Cao'e River) in the sacrificial activities of welcoming the god Wu (Wu Zixu) on May 5, and did not find any trace of her father for several days, nor did she salvage the body, when Cao E was only 14 years old, she searched along the river day and night and cried and shouted to find. After seventeen days, on the day of May 22, because of the fruitless search, disheartened, and finally threw himself into the river, it is rumored that five days later, he actually took out his father's body, which was passed down as a myth, and then passed on to the governor of the county government, and Ling Dushang erected a monument for it, so that his ** speech praised.
03.Natural celestial worship.
In ancient times, people worshipped dragons, phoenixes and other animals as gods, and held dragon boat races and rice dumplings on the fifth day of May every day, praying for the protection of the gods and warding off evil spirits.
The Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Dragon Boat Festival, the dragon rain god, in charge of the folk rain, people race dragon boats during the Dragon Boat Festival, worship the dragon god, pray for good weather in the coming year.