1, Qu Yuan
In 278 BC, Qin Jun invaded Kyoto, Chu. Qu Yuan was heartbroken to see his motherland being invaded, but he was reluctant to give up his motherland. On May 5th, after he wrote his last poem "Huai Sha", he plunged into the Miluo River and wrote a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.
After Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the local people immediately rowed to rescue him. In order to mourn, people rowed on rivers, and later it gradually developed into a dragon boat race. People were afraid that fish in the river would eat his body, so they went home and threw rice balls into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from ruining Qu Yuan's body. Later, eating zongzi became a custom.
2. Wu Zixu
Fu Cha gave Wu Zixu a sword to kill himself. Before he died, Wu Zixu said to his neighbor, "After I die, I will gouge out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Wujing to watch the Vietnamese army enter the city to destroy Wu", and then committed suicide. Fu Cha was furious, so he carried the body of Zixu into the river on May 5th, so it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.
3. Cao E
The third legend of Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E who saved her drowning father in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 23-220). Cao E was a native of Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Her father drowned in the river and didn't see her body for several days. At that time, Cao E, the filial daughter, was only fourteen years old, crying day and night by the river. 17 days later, he also threw himself into the river on May 5, and fished out his father's body five days later. This was passed down as a myth, and then to the governor of the county government, who made it a monument for disciple Han Danchun to make a eulogy. Therefore, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E.
4, meson push
Jiezitui is the protagonist of the Cold Food Festival and the legend of the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day, but some people think that the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is related to Jiezitui. According to Cao Qin written by Cai Yong in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the sages.
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Around the Dragon Boat Festival customs:
1, Zigui Qu Yuan's hometown
Dragon Boat Festival three times, hanging calamus leaves and drinking realgar wine on the fifth day of May; Dragon boat race on May 15; At the end of May 25th, a plague boat was sent to the Dragon Boat Festival to reunite relatives and friends. What is particularly unique is that the farmers in Zigui spontaneously organized the Sao Tan Poetry Society, which sang poems against each other and sang harmoniously during the Dragon Boat Festival, which has been passed down for more than 400 years.
2. Huangshi
Cisse Shenzhou will mainly focus on activities such as making Shenzhouxing, singing opera, offering sacrifices, cruising and launching Shenzhouxing into the water. From the eighth Buddha's birthday on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month to the official court session on May 15 to 18, the whole activity lasted for 40 days, which was a long-term blessing and sacrifice activity for the Dragon Boat Festival in China.
3. By the Miluo River
Generally, it starts on May 1 and ends on May 15. In addition to holding banquets, eating zongzi, hanging calamus with mugwort, drinking realgar wine and racing dragon boats, there are also special customs along the Yangtze River, such as carving dragon heads, stealing sacred trees, singing hymns, launching dragon boats, making dragon heads red, worshiping temples, Dragon Boat Festival and Qu Yuan. These folk customs have rich cultural connotations, leaving many Dragon Boat Festival folk songs such as "I would rather starve for a year than lose my boat in May".
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