Qu Yuan was hunted down and drowned, and the people wanted to reveal something after witnessing it

No one harmed Qu Yuan, Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the river. In the thirty-fifth year of King Zhou (280 BC), in the nineteenth year of King Xiang of Chu, Qin attacked Chu by mistake, and Chu ceded Shangyong and northern Han; In the second year, Qin Bai attacked Chu and took the evil, Deng, and Xiling.

In the thirty-seventh year of the reign of King Zhou (278 BC), Bai Qi further captured Yingdu, and King Chu Qingxiang had no choice but to flee in embarrassment with the ruling nobles and "protect Chencheng (now Huaiyang County, Henan)". In a state of extreme depression and complete despair, Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. This year was probably the twenty-first year of King Xiang of Chu (278 BC), and Qu Yuan was about sixty-two years old at that time.

The traditional custom of eating brown seeds during the Dragon Boat Festival is related to the commemoration of Qu Yuan. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, fishermen near the Huanluo River heard the news and immediately rushed to the rescue in fishing boats. In order to save Qu Yuan's body as soon as possible, some of them used wooden planks and flat poles as oars, and several people rowed a boat, scrambling down the river to Dongting Lake, but they never found it.

The people here were worried that Qu Yuan's body would be eaten by the fish, so they threw the rice in bamboo slips and threw it in the water so that the fish would eat it, so as not to hurt him. In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty (1st century AD), there was a man named Ou Hui in Changsha, who slept during the day and dreamed that Qu Yuan said to him: "I heard that you are coming to worship me, I am very grateful to you."

However, every year, the sacrificial rice that everyone throws into the water is eaten by Jiaolong. I hope you stuff the bamboo tube with neem leaves and wrap it around with five-colored silk threads, because the dragon is afraid of these things. "Do as he says.

This is probably the origin of May 5, the Dragon Boat Festival, where every household wraps brown seeds. According to Xiao Liangshi's Wu Jun's "Continuation of Qi Harmonic Records", he said: "The world makes brown, and with colorful silk and neem leaves, all of which are the legacy of Miluo."

During the Warring States Period, the three doctors of Chu were slandered again, and seeing that Chu was politically corrupt and unable to save it, he sank himself in the Miluo River on May 5. The people of Chu mourn Qu Yuan, and on the fifth day of the fifth month of May every year, they put the rice into the bamboo tube, cook it and put it into the river as a memorial.

When it came to the Eastern Han Dynasty, the legend was Qu Yuan"Dreams"A Yangtze River man said"People threw themselves into the river to sacrifice rice, and the dragon in the river took it away. In the future, if you sacrifice me again, you must plug the mouth of the bamboo tube with neem leaves, and wrap the tube with colored silk, which is what the dragon is afraid of.

People have complied, and since then, on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, they have used neem leaf colored silk to put the bamboo tube dumplings containing rice into the river. Over time, customs were formed. Later, people use mushroom leaves, reed leaves to wrap millet rice, glutinous rice, make zongzi, although no longer put into the river, but on May 5, use five-colored red zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan, this implication has remained in the world for thousands of years.

Hmmm( No, I once wanted to see it.

Didn't find it Don't forget how to find a person's body in the middle of the river, it must have been washed away by the river.

Dragon Boat Festival: In ancient times, the patriotic poet Qu caused the destruction of the Chu State and threw himself into the Luo River. In order to prevent the fish and shrimp from eating Qu Yuan's corpse, people threw food into the river, and there was also a saying that it was for the doctor Qu Yuan to eat, but one day people dreamed that Qu Yuan dreamed that the food was eaten by fish, so in order to let the doctor eat the food, they wrapped it in leaves, and gradually evolved into zongzi.

And people threw food into the river and took boats, which also evolved into dragon boating, so there was gradually the Dragon Boat Festival and zongzi. There is also a saying that the Dragon Boat Festival is a sacrifice to the dragon god.

In ancient times, the festival was made of living people.

Later, everyone changed to wrap zongzi instead of living.

Man, throw yourself into the water and let the dragon eat it. Dragon boat racing is also one of the sacrificial activities to the dragon god.

Happy LZ Dragon Boat Festival.