Why should we commemorate Qu Yuan on Dragon Boat Festival?

Because Qu Yuan could not bear to abandon his own, he bouldered into the Miluo River and died on May 5, composing a patriotic movement with his own life. When we commemorate Qu Yuan, we are also commemorating all patriotic pioneers and promoting the spirit of patriotism.

A moxa stick on the door fills the hall with fragrance. Eat rice dumplings and sprinkle with sugar. The dragon boat was launched into the water and was filled with joy. It’s also the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May. If there is any difference between the Dragon Boat Festival, a festival formed more than 2,000 years ago, and other traditional festivals, it is that the theme of the festival is not about reunion, gathering and celebration, but more about commemoration and remembrance.

Women and children all know that Qu Yuan is remembered on Dragon Boat Festival. After the Qin army captured Kyoto of the Chu state in 278 AD, Qu Yuan could not bear to see his motherland being invaded. On the fifth day of May, he wrote his final work "Huaisha" and bouldered into the Miluo River to his death, composing a tragic song of patriotism with his life. movement.

Since then, the Dragon Boat Festival has become a festival to commemorate and remember Qu Yuan. Hanging mugwort, eating rice dumplings, drinking realgar, racing dragon boats, and driving away the five poisons are all related to Qu Yuan. According to legend, Qu Yuan was trapped by dragons after his death. People mourned him and threw five-color silk rice dumplings into the water on this day to drive away the dragons. It is also said that after Qu Yuan jumped into the Miluo River, local people immediately rowed boats to rescue him after hearing the news. The boats reached Dongting Lake, but Qu Yuan was not seen at all. At that time, it happened to be a rainy day, and the boats on the lake gathered at the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that they were trying to rescue the virtuous minister Qu, they set out again in the rain and rushed into the vast Dongting Lake. Later, in order to express their grief, people went boating on the river on the fifth day of May, which gradually developed into the later dragon boat race.

Although according to research, the Dragon Boat Festival began to take shape as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Wuyue has been rowing dragon boats for more than 3,000 years, and mugwort has been hanging in the Central Plains for 3,000 years, which is 1,000 years earlier than Qu Yuan. So, why do people commemorate Qu Yuan on Dragon Boat Festival? Because it was Qu Yuan's patriotism. In the face of the national disaster, he maintained a kind of innocence and a kind of national integrity. He was not afraid of being shattered into pieces and wanted to leave his innocence in the world.

Qu Yuan is a spiritual and cultural heritage left to every Chinese during the Dragon Boat Festival. As a great patriotic poet in Chinese history, Qu Yuan used his poetry and his life to practice his lofty life ambitions and personality ideals. Qu Yuan is a believer in Confucian beliefs. His value beliefs first lie in the perfection of individual moral personality and sentiment. And this perfect ideal of moral personality is linked to the historical and national values. Qu Yuan's image is that of patriotism and concern for the people. Qu Yuan's feelings are those of patriotism and concern for the people. He took a long breath to cover his tears, lamenting the difficulties of the people's livelihood and the long and long road. I will search up and down. Some people may not have read Qu Yuan's "Li Sao", but this does not affect the study of Qu Yuan's lofty patriotism spirit, nor does it affect the understanding and identification of his feelings about his family and country. Patriotism seems invisible, but at the same time, patriotism is the most powerful, and this power can run through Chinese history. The Chinese nation has endured and struggled for thousands of years, and the driving force behind it is the national culture and spirit with patriotism as its core.

Patriotism is the soul of the Dragon Boat Festival - even today, thousands of years later, this meaning still occupies an incomparable and absolute status. The culture and spirit of a nation are the life of the nation. Patriotism, as the foundation of our nation, should be more vividly displayed in the traditional festival of Dragon Boat Festival. Therefore, we must commemorate Qu Yuan on the Dragon Boat Festival, carry forward Qu Yuan’s patriotic spirit, and let this spirit become the soul of the Dragon Boat Festival.

When we commemorate Qu Yuan, we are also commemorating all patriotic pioneers. These brave patriots embody the ideological realm and traditional virtues of patriotism and concern for the people. From Fan Zhongyan's worry about the world first, and joy after the world's happiness, to Qu Yuan's long breath to cover his tears, mourning the hardships of the people's livelihood, what we commemorate and inherit is the unyielding patriotism of the Chinese nation. It inspired countless descendants to work hard, endure hardships, and always embrace the determination to revitalize the nation.

Today, we celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, not only eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats, but more importantly, passing on the patriotic spirit embedded in the festival culture.