Which celebrities have died today during the Dragon Boat Festival in history

The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Midday Festival, the May Festival, etc. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of China's national holidays and has been included in the list of the world's intangible cultural heritage.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, originally a festival for the Chinese to eliminate diseases and prevent epidemics, and before the spring and autumn in the land of Wuyue, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month; Later, because the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it became a traditional festival for the Chinese Han people to commemorate Qu Yuan; In some areas, there are also sayings commemorating Wu Zixu and Cao E.

The Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine, hanging calamus, artemisia grass, mugwort leaves, atractylodes, angelica, and dragon boat racing.

Huang Jiaju, Su Xingxuan, Voltaire, Wu Zixu, Mary Cassatt, Liu Tianhua, Lin Boqu, Liu Yazi, Peng Jiamu, Jin Peizhang, Qu Yuan.

Life and death have a life and wealth in the sky, and there is no good or bad for people who die on the Dragon Boat Festival, but they just happen to die on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival. Qu Yuan is a celebrity who died on the Dragon Boat Festival.

Qu Yuan (c. 340 BC – 278 BC) was a poet and politician of Chu during the Warring States period. In his early years, he was trusted by King Chu Huai, and served as a leftist disciple and a doctor in Sanlu, and was also in charge of domestic and foreign affairs. He advocated "American politics", advocated the internal promotion of meritocracy, the cultivation of the law, and the external force to unite to resist Qin.

Because he was excluded and slandered by the nobles, he was exiled to the northern Han and Yuanxiang valleys. In 278 BC, the Qin state conquered the Chu capital, and Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the river during his exile.

In addition, on June 22, 1865, when he advocated the issuance of paper money (Karl Marx had considered him a visionary in Capital), Daoguang Jinshi Wang Maoyin died. (Born in 1798). June 22, 1967 - Li Lisan, the former main leader of the Communist Party of China, was forced to commit suicide.

June 22, 1969 – American movie star Judy Garland dies (born 1922). June 22, 1988 - Xiao Jun passed away (born in 1907). June 22, 2000 - Zhang Xueliang's third (and last) wife Zhao Yidi passed away.

June 22, 2002 - Hong Kong martial arts film director Zhang Che passed away. June 22, 2004 – Kim Sun-il (born 1970), an English translator for a South Korean company serving the U.S. military, was kidnapped by militants in Iraq and killed after South Korea** refused the militants' request to withdraw its troops. June 22, 2015 – James Horner, American composer.

June 22, 2017 – Sheila Michaels, American feminist. June 22, 2020 - Chu Ruigeng passed away at the age of 75, a well-known contemporary Chinese essay critic and journalist. June 22, 2020 - The famous American director Joe Schumacher has passed away at the age of 80.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival, in addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, there are also commemorating Wu Zixu, Cao E, Shengsou Jie Zitui and so on.

The most widely spread is to commemorate Qu Yuan, Qu Yuan is a native of Chu during the Warring States Period, in 278 BC, the Qin army broke through the Chu State of Kyoto, Qu Yuan saw his motherland being invaded, his heart was like a knife, and he returned to May on the fifth day of the Hongfamine, and committed suicide by bouldering into the Miluo River.

Another is more widely spread in order to commemorate the filial piety of Cao E, the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao E's father drowned in the river, a few days without seeing the body, Cao E cried along the river day and night, after 17 days, in May 5 into the river, five days later to hold out the body of the father, after the county order knew about this matter and ordered people to erect a monument for it, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also to commemorate the day of the filial piety Cao E.