Author: Wenxiu Dragon Boat Festival·Jiefen, who can tell who the Dragon Boat Festival is?
Who can tell who the Dragon Boat Festival comes from? ①, the eternal rumor is Qu Yuan ②. It is worth laughing at the vast sky of the Chu River ③ , but it cannot wash away the injustice of the direct officials ④ .
Notes ①Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Since: Since. ② Qu Yuan (340 BC - 278 BC): China's earliest romantic poet and politician of the Chu State during the Warring States Period. The name is Ping and the word is Yuan. Because of the slander and exclusion of the imperial concubine Zheng Xiu, Ling Yin Zilan, and doctor Jin Shang, he was demoted and exiled. After Chu was defeated by Qin and the capital of Ying fell, he sank into the Miluo River.
According to legend, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the commemoration of Qu Yuan. ③Chujiang: The river in Chu State, here refers to Miluo River. ④Zhichen: An upright minister, here refers to Qu Yuan.
Brief explanation: The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and is one of the "three festivals a year" among the people. According to legend, this day is the day when Qu Yuan, my country's first great poet, committed suicide by throwing himself into the river. Later generations injured him and died unjustly. He threw rice dumplings into the river as a sacrifice and rowed a boat to rescue him. This became the custom of eating rice dumplings and dragon boat racing during the Dragon Boat Festival. The author's quatrain also raises a thought-provoking question: Although later generations praise and worship in every possible way, tragedies like Qu Yuan's sinking have happened after all, and such injustice cannot be simply washed away. This poem is about something close and far-reaching, concise and profound, and very powerful.