Original text:
Dragon Boat Festival
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty
Author: Wen Xiu
The festival is divided into Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to be Qu Yuan.
I can laugh at the emptiness of the Chu River, but I can't wash it straight.
Precautions:
① Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Self: self.
② Qu Yuan (340-278 BC): the earliest romantic poet in China, and a politician in Chu during the Warring States Period. The name is flat and the word is original. Yin, Shanxi merchants' doctors and imperial concubines were vilified, excluded and exiled. Chu State was defeated by Qin State, and after the fall of Ying Capital, it sank into the Miluo River. According to legend, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival originated in memory of Qu Yuan.
(3) Chu River: the river of Chu State, here refers to Miluo River.
Chen Zhi: An upright minister, here refers to Qu Yuan.
Brief description:
The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is one of the folk "three festivals a year". According to legend, this day was the day when Qu Yuan, the first great poet in China, committed suicide. Later generations wronged him, so they threw zongzi into the river for sacrifice and rowed a boat to save him, which became the custom of solar eclipse and dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival. The author's quatrains put forward a thought-provoking question: despite all kinds of praises and sacrifices of later generations, tragedies like Qu Yuan's sinking into the river still happened after all, and such grievances cannot be simply washed away. This poem is profound, concise and powerful.
About the author:
Jiangnan poetry monk. Zhaozong lives in Chang 'an and devotes himself to writing. With Zheng Gu and Miracle as poetry friends. I have been to Nanwutai. For the deeds, see Volume 74 of Chronicle of Tang Poetry and Volume 3 of Biography of Talented Scholars in Tang Dynasty. There are 1 poems in the whole Tang Dynasty. Another book, After the Splendid Flower Valley, contains four poems by Wen Xiu, and the income of The Whole Tang Poetry Sequel is based on this.