According to Qu's genealogy, Qu Yuan's wife is Mrs. Deng. Xiangyang custom in Jin Dynasty: "Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and every time his wife threw herself into the water, she sacrificed it." It means that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, his wife would throw food into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May every year as a sacrifice to Qu Yuan. In the Qing Dynasty, the Collection of Ancient and Modern Catalogues recorded that there was a phoenix temple six miles southwest of Yiyang County, Hunan Province, dedicated to Qu Yuan's wife and son, and the Qing Dynasty's Yiyang County Records also recorded the same. There is a portrait of Qu Yuan's wife in the genealogy of Qu's family in the 11th year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty in Shanyang County, Shaanxi Province, which is marked as "Portrait of Ling Jun with Madame Deng in A.D.".

Qu Yuan (about 340 BC-278 BC) was a great patriotic poet in ancient China. Han nationality, whose ancestral home is Danyang, Chu, was originally named Qu Yuan, also known as Ling Jun, and is the son of Xiong Tong and the descendant of Qu Xian. Although Qu Yuan was loyal to Chu Huaiwang, he was repeatedly rejected. After the death of King Huai, Xiang Wang was exiled because he listened to slanderers. Finally, in the twenty-first year of King Xiang (278 BC), he died in Miluo River. Qu Yuan is about 62 years old.