Qu Yuan (about 340 BC-278 BC), a native of Zigui, Danyang, the State of Chu (now Yichang, Hubei), was a poet and politician in the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan is a descendant of Qu Xian, the son of Chu Wuwang Xiong Tong. Slashed by nobles, he was exiled to Hanbei and Yuanxiang Valley. After the capital of Chu was breached by Qin Jun, it sank into the Miluo River and died for Chu. He is a great patriotic poet in the history of China, the founder of China's romantic literature, the founder and representative writer of The Songs of the South, and has created the tradition of "vanilla beauty" and is known as the "father of the Songs of the South". Song Yu, Le Tang and Jing Ke were all influenced by Qu Yuan. According to legend, Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival for China people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in 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 Qu Yuan died on this day, it became a traditional festival for the people of China to commemorate Qu Yuan. 1953, on the occasion of the 2230th anniversary of Qu Yuan's death, the World Peace Council passed a resolution to identify Qu Yuan as one of the four cultural celebrities in the world.
In the twenty-ninth year of Zhou Xianwang (340 BC), on the seventh day of the first month, Qu Yuan was born in Danyang (now Yichang, Hubei). The following year, Julepingli. In the thirty-ninth year of Zhou Xianwang (330 BC), Qu Yuan lived in Lepingli. I was addicted to books since I was a child and read a lot of miscellaneous books. "Reading in Cave" and "Bashan Night Classic" should be in this year. Zhou Xianwang lived in Leping for forty years (329 BC).