What happened to Qu Yuan before his death? Why did he throw himself into the river?

Qu Yuan threw himself into the river because he was politically excluded. At this time, the king of Chu was no longer willing to listen to any of his suggestions. Qu Yuan knew that Chu had perished, and he could never return to heaven. In the end, he could only throw himself into the river with a stone. You know, as a patriotic poet and politician, Qu Yuan thought that jumping into the river was his way out.

In fact, when Qu Yuan was in his twenties, he was still very trusted by Chu Huaiwang. At that time, his official position was very high, and his position was very prominent. The turning point of Qu Yuan's life is because he put forward a very advanced ideological policy to Chu Huaiwang, which threatened the interests of the old nobles. Those old nobles began to slander and slander him, and soon Qu Yuan was exiled to the northern part of Han Dynasty, but he did not give up his ideals and ambitions because of this.

In fact, many people have analyzed and guessed the reason why Qu Yuan chose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, but the main reason is that Qu Yuan's personality is too straightforward, too dark and cruel in terms of politics at that time. Even if Qu Yuan has this ambition, it is useless. He could only watch helplessly as his beloved Chu State was destroyed by the State of Qin, completely overthrowing Qu Yuan's spiritual pillar. The anger in his heart also turned into despair. It was because of his despair of the world that Qu Yuan reached the Miluo River and finally threw himself into the river on the fifth day of May, burying Chu with his own death.

Looking back on Qu Yuan's life, it can be said that it is ups and downs. After Qu Yuan's death, in order to commemorate Qu Yuan, people celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, which also gave us a three-day holiday and made generations remember his name forever.