What are the origins of Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival?

According to legend, there was a monster named Nian in ancient China, with long tentacles and a ferocious face. Nian lived on the seabed for many years, and climbed ashore every New Year's Eve, devouring livestock and killing people.

Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village fled to the deep mountains to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast.

On New Year's Eve this year, people in Taohua Village were taking refuge in the mountains when an old beggar came from outside the village. He was leaning on crutches, carrying a bag on his arm, with elegant silver whiskers and staring at Matthew.

Some villagers sealed windows and locked doors, some packed their bags, some herded cattle and drove sheep, and people shouted boo everywhere, which was a scene of panic. At this time, who still has the mind to take care of this begging old man?

Only an old woman in the east of the village gave the old man some food and suggested that he go up the mountain quickly to avoid Nian beast. The old man smiled and said, "If my mother-in-law lets me stay at home for one night, I will definitely drive Nian beast away.

The old woman looked at him carefully in surprise and found that he was handsome, energetic and different. But she continued to persuade and begged the old man to laugh without saying a word. My mother-in-law had no choice but to leave home and take refuge in the mountains.

At midnight, Nian beast broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: the old woman's house at the east end of the village had red paper on the door and a fire lit in the house. The beast Nian trembled and let out a long whistle.

Nian stared at her mother-in-law's house for a while, then screamed and rushed over. When we were near the door, there was a sudden explosion in the yard, and Nian trembled and dared not go any further.

It turns out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion. At this time, my mother-in-law's door was wide open, and I saw an old man in a red robe laughing in the hospital. "Nian" was frightened to disgrace and fled in confusion.

The next day was the first day of the first month, and the people who came back from refuge were very surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, the old woman suddenly realized and quickly told the villagers the promise of begging for the elderly.

The villagers flocked to the old woman's house together, only to find red paper on her mother-in-law's door, a pile of unburned bamboo still exploding in the yard, and several red candles still glowing in the house. ...

In order to celebrate the arrival of Youxiang, ecstatic villagers put on new clothes and hats one after another and went to their relatives and friends' homes to congratulate and say hello. The story soon spread in the surrounding villages, and people all knew the way to drive away the "Nian" beast.

Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, every family has posted red couplets and set off firecrackers. Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of the first day, I want to say hello to my relatives and friends.

This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.

The Legend of the Spring Festival (2)

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a young man named "Wannian" who made a living by collecting firewood. He is very clever. Seeing that the festival was chaotic at that time, he was determined to get it right, but he didn't know where to start.

One day, he went up the mountain to cut wood, and when he was resting, he remembered the festival again. He thought hard and stared at the shadows of the trees. Suddenly, he was inspired by the moving shadow. When he got home, he designed a sundial to measure the length of a day. But what about cloudy, cloudy, foggy and rainy weather? Later, he firewood on the mountain, went to the spring to drink water, and saw the spring dripping rhythmically on the cliff, which aroused his interest. He looked at the dripping spring with ecstasy. After returning home, he began to make a five-layer leaky pot. Keep time by leaking water. In this way, he slowly discovered that by measuring the shadow of the sun and recording the time with water leakage, the length of the weather would repeat every 360 days. The solstice in winter is the shortest day.

Due to the disorder of holiday order, which affects agricultural production, people complain a lot. Zu Ti, the son of heaven, is also worried. He telephoned the officials to find out the cause of the holiday chaos. A Heng, a festival official, said that people have offended God. If you want a normal holiday, you must worship the gods and ask for forgiveness. The son of heaven believed it, led hundreds of officials to the Temple of Heaven to worship the gods, and gathered the people of the whole country to set up a platform to worship the heavens.

Ten thousand years thought that sacrifice was futile. He took his self-made sundial instrument and water leakage device to see the son of heaven, explaining the reasons for the disorder caused by the inaccurate solar terms. According to the results of my own determination for many years, I explained the winter solstice and the cycle of the sun and the moon. After hearing this, the son of heaven felt that Wan Nian was reasonable, so he left Wan Nian, built a sundial table and a leaky pot pavilion in front of the Temple of Heaven, and sent twelve boys to serve Wan Nian.

After a while, the son of heaven sent Ah Heng to study the calendar in Wannian. Wannian took out his own calendar and said, "Sunrise and sunset are 360, so start all over again. The vegetation is divided into four seasons and there are twelve laps a year. " A Heng, who was jealous, was uneasy when he heard this. He thought: If the festival is decided in the year of ten thousand, it will definitely be reused by the emperor. What will happen to me then? He is determined to kill Wan Nian.

So, he bought an assassin with a large sum of money to assassinate Wan Nian. However, Wan Nian worked hard from morning till night and never left Riyuege. Riyuege is heavily guarded, so the assassin can't find a chance to do it. As time went by, the assassin was in a hurry. Finally, he decided to kill one arrow for ten thousand years.

One day at noon, Wannian went to the sundial to see the shadow of the sun. The assassin hid in a corner and shot Wannian with a bow and arrow. I heard a whoosh, and the arrow landed on Wan Nian's arm. Ten thousand years later, the boy shouted to catch the assassin. The guards arrived at the news, caught the assassin and sent him to see the son of heaven.

The son of heaven learned from the assassin that the assassination of Wan Nian was originally planned by Ah Heng, so he sentenced Ah Heng to criminal law and personally boarded the Sun Moon Pavilion to visit Wan Nian. Wan Nian pointed to Shen Xing and said, "Now Shen Xing has caught up with silkworms, the astrology has recovered, and the children have sex at night. The old year passed and spring began again. I hope that the son of heaven will set a festival. "

"Spring is the beginning of a year. Let's call it Spring Festival." The son of heaven said, "You have been here for more than three years and worked hard to make a solar calendar, which is a great achievement." Today, I was ambushed and seriously injured. Now come with me to the palace to recuperate and spend the Spring Festival with me. "

Wan Nian replied: "Thanks to the emperor's love, it is only a solar calendar or a grass calendar, which is still inaccurate. We have to decorate the end of the year, otherwise, over time, it will cause seasonal disorder. In order to live up to expectations, I must stay here and continue to set the solar calendar. "

Cold comes and summer goes, and spring goes and winter comes. After years of long-term observation and careful calculation, the solar calendar was finally set. When he dedicated the solar calendar to the son of heaven, the son of heaven was deeply moved by his white hair, so he named the solar calendar "perpetual calendar" and named it the longevity of the moon and the moon. Today, people call the Spring Festival "Year" and hang it in Shou Xingtu. Legend has it that it is to commemorate the great achievements of ten thousand years.

The origin of Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first lunar month is the traditional Lantern Festival in China. The first month is January, and the ancients called the night "Xiao". The fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as "Shangyuan Festival". According to the folk tradition in China, the moon is high in the sky and there are 10,000 lanterns on the ground on the festival night of Spring Festival, so people can watch lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, eat Yuanxiao and have family reunion. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were held on the 15th day of the first month. Sima Qian listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival in taichu calendar law.

Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, and it is said that it was set up to commemorate Pinglu during the reign of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty. After the death of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, Lv Hou's son Liu Ying became Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty. Hui Di was born weak and indecisive, and power gradually fell into the hands of Lv Hou. After Hui Di's death, he monopolized state affairs and turned Liu's world into Lu's. The old courtiers and Liu Zongshi were deeply indignant, but they were afraid of cruelty and dared not speak out. After Lv Hou's death, Zhu Lu has been in a state of anxiety, afraid of being hurt and excluded. So, in the general's home, they secretly assembled and plotted to make trouble in order to completely seize Liu's country.

This incident reached the ears of Liu Nang, the king of the Liu clan. In order to protect Liu Jiangshan, Liu Nang decided to attack Zhu Lu, and got in touch with the founding fathers to make a plot. The "Zhu-Lu Rebellion" was finally completely put down. After the rebellion, the ministers made Liu Heng, the second son of Liu Bang, emperor and called him Emperor Wen. Impressed by the hard-won peace and prosperity, Emperor Wen designated the 15th day of the first month of the first month to quell the "Zhu-Lu Rebellion" as a day to have fun with the people, and every household in Beijing celebrated with lanterns and colorful decorations. Since then, the fifteenth day of the first month has become a popular folk festival-"Lantern Festival".

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were held on the 15th day of the first month. Sima Qian listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival in taichu calendar law.

The origin of the Mid-Autumn festival

The 15th day of the eighth lunar month is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China and the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. August 15th is in the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. In the ancient Chinese calendar, August in the middle of autumn is called "Mid-Autumn Festival", so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Mid-Autumn Festival".

Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient festival, and it is an important custom to offer sacrifices and enjoy the moon. Ancient emperors had a social system of offering sacrifices to the moon in spring, and folks also had the custom of offering sacrifices to the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Later, it was more important to enjoy the moon than to sacrifice it, and serious sacrifice turned into light entertainment. The custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, and many poets wrote poems about the moon in their masterpieces. In the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yue Bai's court and folk activities to enjoy the moon were even larger. So far, there are many historical sites in China, such as Yue Bai Altar, Moon Pavilion and Moon Tower. The "Moon Altar" in Beijing was built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and was used for royal sacrifice to the moon. Whenever the moon rises in the Mid-Autumn Festival, a box is set up in the open air, with moon cakes, pomegranates, dates and other fruits on the console table. After Yue Bai, the family sat around the dining table, chatting while eating and enjoying the bright moon.

According to historical records, the word "Mid-Autumn Festival" first appeared in the book Zhou Li. In the Wei and Jin dynasties, there was a record of "telling Shangshu Town about cattle confusion, crossing the river in mid-autumn and evening". It was not until the early years of the Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. The Book of Emperor Taizong recorded the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15. The prevalence of Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty, and it became one of the major festivals in China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is also the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival.

Another explanation for the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival is that the 15th day of the eighth lunar month happens to be the time when rice is ripe, and all families worship the land god. Mid-Autumn Festival may be the legacy of Qiubao.

Legend of Mid-Autumn Festival

The legend of Mid-Autumn Festival is very rich, and fairy tales such as the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting Guangxi and Jade Rabbit smashing medicine are widely circulated.

The Goddess Chang's fly to the moon

According to legend, there was a hero named Hou Yi in ancient times who shot down nine suns for the benefit of the people and ordered the last one to rise and fall on time. Therefore, Hou Yi was respected and loved by the people and married a beautiful and kind wife named Chang 'e. Besides hunting, Hou Yi spends all his time with his wife, and people envy this beautiful and loving couple. Many people with lofty ideals also came here to study as teachers, and Meng Peng with ulterior motives joined in.

One day, Hou Yi went to Kunlun Mountain to visit friends and seek truth. He happened to meet the Queen Mother passing by and asked her for a bag of elixir. It is said that taking this medicine can instantly ascend to heaven and become immortal. However, Hou Yi was reluctant to leave his wife, so he had to temporarily give the elixir to Chang 'e. Chang 'e hid the medicine in the dresser's treasure chest, but the villain Meng Peng saw it. He wants to steal the elixir to make himself immortal.

Three days later, Hou Yi led his entourage out hunting, while Meng Peng with ulterior motives pretended to be ill. Shortly after Hou Yi led the crowd to leave, Meng Peng broke into the backyard of the back room with a sword in his hand, threatening Chang 'e to hand over the elixir. Chang 'e knew that she was no match for Meng Peng. In times of crisis, she made a decisive decision, turned around and opened the treasure chest, took out the elixir and swallowed it in one gulp. Chang 'e swallowed the medicine and immediately flew into the sky. Because Chang 'e was worried about her husband, she flew to the nearest moon and became a fairy.

In the evening, when Hou Yi came home, the maids cried and told what happened during the day. Hou Yi was surprised and angry, and drew his sword to kill the villain. Meng Peng escaped early. Angry and heartbroken, Hou Yi looked up at the night sky and shouted the name of his beloved wife. At this time, he was surprised to find that today's moon is exceptionally bright and bright. There is a swaying figure resembling Chang 'e. He chased the moon desperately, but he chased it three times, the moon retreated three times, he retreated three times, and the moon advanced three times. He couldn't catch up anyway.

Hou Yi had no choice but to miss his wife, so he had to send someone to Chang 'e's favorite back garden, put on a table sweetmeats, put on her favorite honey and fresh fruit, and offer a sacrifice to Chang 'e who was attached to him at the Moon Palace. After hearing the news that the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon became an immortal, people set up an incense table under the moon and prayed for good luck and peace to the kind Chang 'e. Since then, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Yue Bai has spread among the people.

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According to legend, osmanthus trees in front of Guanghan Palace on the moon are flourishing, reaching more than 500 feet. There is a man who often cuts, but after each cut, the cut place closes immediately. For thousands of years, this laurel tree can never be cut down. It is said that this tree cutter named WU GANG, a native of Xihe in Han Dynasty, once followed the immortal to heaven, but when he made a mistake, the immortal demoted him to the Moon Palace and did this futile housework every day as a punishment. In Li Bai's poems, there is a record that "if you want to be in the middle of the month, you will pay for the cold."

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According to legend, there is a rabbit on the moon, as white as jade, so it is called "Jade Rabbit". The white rabbit holds a jade pestle and kneels down to pound the medicine into toad venom. Taking these pills can make you live forever. Over time, Jade Rabbit became synonymous with the moon.

Mid-Autumn Festival "Appreciating the Moon"

After the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, Hong Kong people's activities of chasing the moon are still in full swing, and they will come again on the evening of August 16, commonly known as "chasing the moon". /kloc-On the evening of 0/6, people came to the seaside with tent lights, wine and delicacies, listened to the waves and enjoyed the moon, recited poems and played chess, and drank and laughed. At this time, the blue sky and blue sea set each other off with moonlight and candlelight, which is fascinating.

When the moon rises, people in Dong villages in Guangxi step on the moonlight and come to the open area of the mountain village, playing flutes, singing and dancing in unison. Listening to vocal music from a distance is deafening, and watching dancing at close range is like a big stage floating like water in the moonlight.

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, when the moon is about to rise, Koreans will scramble to climb the "moon-watching" frame made of wooden poles and pine branches in advance. It is said that whoever sees the moon first will get good luck. Later, people beat gongs and drums, played Dong Xiao, and danced "peasant dance" together.

Walking on the moon is very popular in Suzhou. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, women meet and travel, visit relatives and friends, enjoy the moon and flowers, and come and go in an endless stream until late at night.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chang 'an, Shaanxi, people make reunion buns with sesame seeds and sugar in the middle, which are baked in a pot and eaten by the whole family. This is the so-called "full moon".

Tibetan compatriots searching for the moon spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with the custom of "searching for the moon" in the water. That night, the young children walked along the river, looking for the bright moon reflected in the water, and didn't go home to eat reunion moon cakes until late at night.

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, Xibe people set up a sacrificial table in the yard, with cut watermelons and other fruits on the table. Then the whole family bowed down to the moon and invited the moon god to come down to earth to taste the fruits of the world. The Oroqen people also have a similar custom, praying for the blessing of the moon god and all the best.

After begging for the Mid-Autumn Festival, unmarried young men in Dongguan, Guangdong Province burned incense in groups of three to five in the moonlight to worship the elderly under the moon. Legend has it that at this moment, it is the time for Yue Lao to match men and women in the world, and Yue Lao can find a beautiful and affectionate partner for a pious young man.

According to the moon, there is a folk custom of "according to the moon" in eastern Zhejiang. Legend has it that a woman who has been infertile for a long time can sit alone in the bright moonlight when the Mid-Autumn Festival is full, and pray for the blessing of the moon god to get pregnant and have children.

Customs of Mid-Autumn Festival in various places

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people's main activities are enjoying the moon and eating moon cakes. However, China has a vast territory, a large population and different customs, and there are various ways to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with strong local characteristics.

In Pucheng, Fujian, women have to cross nanpu bridge to live longer during the Mid-Autumn Festival. When Longyan people eat moon cakes, their parents will dig out round cakes with a diameter of two or three inches in the middle for their elders to eat, which means that they can't tell the secret to the younger generation.

There is a custom of Mid-Autumn Festival Yue Bai in Chaoshan, Guangdong, which is mainly aimed at women and children. As the saying goes, "men are dissatisfied with the moon, and women don't sacrifice stoves." At night, when the bright moon rises, women set up a box in the yard and balcony to pray. Red candles are burning high, cigarettes are lingering, and the table is filled with good fruits and cakes as sacrifices.

In Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, incense is burned on Mid-Autumn Festival night. There are silks around the incense barrel, which depicts the scenery in the Moon Palace. There are incense sticks made of thread Kaori with paper kuixing and colorful flags on them.

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival in Ji 'an County, Jiangxi Province, every village burns crocks with straw. When the crock is red, put the vinegar in it. At this time, the whole village will smell a fragrance. During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Xincheng County, grass lanterns are hung from the evening of August 1 1 to August 17.

Children build a hollow pagoda with bricks during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Wuyuan County, Anhui Province. Curtains, plaques and other decorations are hung on the tower, and a table is placed in front of the tower, displaying various utensils to worship the "tower god". At night, lights and candles are lit inside and out. Children in Jixi Mid-Autumn Festival play Mid-Autumn firecrackers. Mid-Autumn Festival firecrackers are braided with straw, picked up and smashed stones after soaking, making them make a loud noise, which is a custom in Youlong. A fire dragon is a dragon made of straw with incense in it. When you visit the dragon, there are gongs and drums teams. They tour the village before being sent to the river.

In Sichuan province, in addition to eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, people also eat cakes, ducks, sesame cakes and honey cakes.

In the north, farmers in Qingyun County, Shandong Province offered sacrifices to the god of land valley on August 15, which is called "Young Miao Society".

Wanquan County, Hebei Province called the Mid-Autumn Festival "Little New Year's Day", and there were pictures of Xing Jun and Guan Di reading the Spring and Autumn Festival at night on moonlight paper. Hejian county people think that the rain in Mid-Autumn Festival is bitter rain. If it rains in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the local people think that vegetables must be terrible.

More than 20 ethnic minorities in China also celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival, but the festivals and customs are different.

Zhuang people are used to using rice cakes and Yue Bai on bamboo rafts in the river. Girls put lanterns on the water to measure the happiness of their lives and sing the beautiful folk song "Please take care of the moon". On the "Tiger Day" before the festival, the Gelao people slaughtered a bull in the whole village, leaving the heart of the bull for the Mid-Autumn Festival night to worship their ancestors and welcome the new valley. They call it "August Festival".

Li people call Mid-Autumn Festival "August Meeting" or "Sound Adjustment". At that time, each market town will hold a song and dance party, and each village will be led by a "U-turn" (that is, the leader). After the staff arrived, everyone exchanged mooncakes, sweet cake, cookies, flower towels, colored fans and vests, and flocked to each other. In the evening, they gather by the fire, roast game, drink rice wine and sing Daqu, so unmarried young people take the opportunity to find their future partners.

Eat taro in Mid-Autumn Festival.

Zhuanshui Town in Wuhua County has a peculiar tradition. Every Mid-Autumn Festival evening, every household in the village has to steam a pot of taro with skin. When enjoying the moon, the whole family eats taro first and then moon cakes. When peeling taro, they say "peeling ghosts". It is said that this can "ward off evil spirits" and the second is to commemorate the people's uprising.

Legend has it that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers brutally ruled and oppressed the Han people, lest the broad masses of working people rise up, and one out of every ten working people was stationed in the court. These ferocious guys specialize in monitoring people's daily lives, arbitrarily searching for people's fat and paste, and harming people. They also stipulate that every ten households should use a kitchen knife, and whoever wants to use a knife should borrow it from his minions.

In order to resist these evil minions and overthrow the ruling class, a clever man thought of a way to contact the public. Pretending to be a businessman selling taro, he sent a note to every household under the skin of cooked taro, asking the people to act in unison and kill all these slaves when enjoying the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival night. Finally, the national people's uprising overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.

Later, in order to commemorate the uprising, cooked taro, fine tea, old wine, moon cakes and so on were put on every Mid-Autumn Festival party. While enjoying the moon, people talked about family affairs and state affairs and told that long and legendary story.

Mid-Autumn Festival couplets highlights

Appreciating the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, literati have left us many beautiful scenery throughout the ages.

There is a couplet in Yaotai, Wuxia, Sichuan:

The moon is bright, and August is particularly bright;

Beautiful mountains and mountains, Wushan Xiu Xiu is very.

This couplet uses overlapping words to write the characteristics of "Moonlight to Mid-Autumn Festival", which makes the Mid-Autumn Festival moonlight and Wushan beautiful, neat and natural, and perfectly matched.

In ancient times, there was a gifted scholar who looked up at the Mid-Autumn Moon and recited couplets: the moon was full in the sky and half on the ground. However, he thought hard and couldn't find a comparable couplet. It was not until New Year's Eve that he was inspired and sang the couplet: Tonight, Tomorrow, Year after Year. This couplet is rigorous and concise.

One Mid-Autumn Festival, Su Dongpo and his family enjoyed the moon until midnight, and invited three sons on the first couplet: at 2: 30 in the middle of the night. His third son replied: Mid-Autumn Festival in August. Yes, neat and decent, surprise.

There is a Gong Yuan in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and there is a couplet at the entrance of the courtyard, describing the relationship between the season and the high tide: write a thousand words, and the flowers will be yellow in Gui Xiang; When you go out, you can see the full moon in the West Lake and the tide coming from the East China Sea. Vivid and accurate, beautiful artistic conception.

In the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Banqiao wrote a letter on the "Moon Scene" of Xiaojinshan Island in the Slender West Lake in Yangzhou: the moon is full of water; Yun Qi-Tianshan Mountains. The image is appropriate and poetic.

There is a word: the sun and the moon are not black, and the hills are not low.

There are three pairs of palindromes:

The moon locks the clouds in the clouds; People go home at midnight.

Hang the first quarter moon on the moon string; The stars move north to the Big Dipper.

Go upstairs on the first day of the month; The title of the title list.

The Origin and Legend of Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient traditional festival, which started in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and has a history of more than 2,000 years. Dragon Boat Festival has many origins and legends. Here are only the following four:

Commemorating Qu Yuan

According to the historian Biography of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng, Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu Huaiwang in the Spring and Autumn Period. He advocated the use of talents, empowerment, and prosperity, and advocated joint resistance to Qin, which was strongly opposed by others. Qu Yuan was forced to leave his post, was driven out of the capital and exiled to the Yuan and Xiang river basins. During his exile, he wrote immortal poems such as Li Sao, Tian Wen and Tian Wen, which have a unique style and far-reaching influence (therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Poet's Day). In 278 BC, Qin Jun conquered Kyoto of Chu. Seeing that his motherland was invaded, Qu Yuan was heartbroken, but he was always reluctant to give up his motherland. On May 5th, after writing his masterpiece Huai Sha, he died in Miluo River and wrote a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other foods prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs were full and would not bite the doctor. People followed suit after seeing it. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he would stun the dragon water beast with medicine so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. Later, people were afraid that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, so they came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and then wrapping it with colored silk to make it develop into brown seeds.

After that, on the fifth day of May every year, there is the custom of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine. In memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

Commemorating Wu Zixu.

The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, which spread in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, commemorates Wu Zixu in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). Wu Zixu, a famous Chu national, and his father and brother were all killed by the King of Chu. Later, Zixu abandoned the dark and went to Wu to help Wu to attack Chu, and entered the capital city of Chu in the Five Wars. At that time, King Chu Ping was already dead. Zixu dug a grave and whipped 300 bodies to avenge his father's murder. After the death of He Lu, the king of Wu, his son Fu Cha succeeded to the throne. Wu Jun's morale was high and he was defeated by Yue. Gou Jian, the King of Yue, made peace, and Fu Cha agreed. Zi Xu suggested the complete elimination of Yue, but Fu Cha didn't listen. Wu was massacred and bought by the state of Yue. He was framed by slanderers. Fu Cha believed him and gave him a sword. Zi Xu died. Zixu, a loyal minister, feels like death. Before he died, he said to his neighbors, "After I die, I will gouge out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Jason Wu, watching the Vietnamese army enter the city and destroy Wu." Then he killed himself. Fu Cha was furious after hearing this. On May 5th, he wrapped Zixu's body in leather and threw it into the river. Therefore, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.

In memory of the dutiful daughter 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.

The tomb of the filial daughter is in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province today, and there is a monument made by Jin. Later, in order to commemorate Cao E's filial piety, Cao E Temple was built where Cao E threw himself into the river. The village where she lived was renamed Cao E Town, and the place where Cao E died was named Cao E River.

Totem sacrifice originated from the ancient Yue nationality.

A large number of cultural relics unearthed in modern times and archaeological studies have confirmed that in the Neolithic age, there was a cultural relic with geometric prints and pottery ruins in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. According to experts' inference, the remaining clan is Baiyue clan, a clan that worships dragon totem in history. The decorative patterns and historical legends on unearthed pottery show that they have the custom of tattooing constantly, live in a water town and compare themselves to the descendants of dragons. Among its production tools, there are a large number of stone tools, as well as small bronzes such as shovels and chisels. As daily necessities, the printed pottery ding used for cooking food is unique to them and is one of the symbols of their ethnic group. Until the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were still more than 100 Vietnamese people, and the Dragon Boat Festival was a festival for their ancestors. During thousands of years of historical development, most Baiyue people have integrated into the Han nationality, and the rest have evolved into many ethnic minorities in the south. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival has become a festival for the whole Chinese nation.