The Dragon Boat Festival origin and fable Dragon Boat Festival are the
ancient traditional holiday, the beginning to China\'s Spring and
Autumn Period Warring States time, until now already some more than
2,000 years history. Dragon Boat Festival\'s origin and the fable are
very many, here only introduces following four kinds: The source to
commemorates Qu Yuan according to \"Shihchi\" \"Qu Yuan the Jia fresh
biography\" the record, Qu Yuan, is Spring and Autumn Period time
Minister Chu Huaiwang. He initiates to lift virtuous giving energy,
富国强兵, advocated strongly association Qi Kangqin, encounters
person\'s the and so on expensive 族子 orchid intense opposition, Qu
Yuan suffers greedily goes to the duty, is expelled the capital city,
exiles 沅, the Hunan basin. He in the exile, wrote down has been
concerned about country and people \"离骚\", \"Day Asked\", \"Nine Songs\"
and so on immortal poem, the alone style, affected profoundly (thus,
Dragon Boat Festival also called poet festival). 278 B.C., the Qin
armed force breaks through the Chu country Kyoto. Qu Yuan saw own
motherland are invaded, feels as if a knife were piercing heart, but
throughout does not endure to discard own motherland, on May 5, after
has written down 绝笔 makes \"Bosom Sand\", holds the stone to throw
the Miluo river body to die, has composed a tune grand patriotism
music movement by own life. After fable Qu Yuan died, the Chu country
common people are sorrowful exceptionally, well up in abundance to
汨罗 the waterfront are grieved by reminder of deceased Qu Yuan. The
fishermen delimit the ships, back and forth salvages his true body in
the river. Has a fisherman to put out food and so on food group, egg
which prepares for Qu Yuan, \"splash, splash\" throws in the river, said
was lets the fish lobster crab eat to the full, could not go nips
Doctor Qu\'s body. After the people see imitate in abundance. A senior
doctor brings world realgar wine to pour into in the river, said wants
the medicine corona flood dragon marine animals, in order to avoid
injures Doctor Qu. Afterwards for feared the food group eats for the
flood dragon, the people find out with the melia japonica leaf 包饭,
outside entangles the color silk, develops Cheng Zongzi. Later, in
every year in May fifth day, will have the dragon boat boat race, has
eaten the steamed rice dumpling, drinks the realgar wine the custom;
To this comes commemorative patriotic poet Qu Yuan. The source to
commemorates Wu Zixu Dragon Boat Festival the second fable, spreads
area Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces very broadly, is commemorates the
Spring and Autumn Period time (the B.C.E. 770-- previous 476 years) Wu
Zixu. Wu Zixu, the Chu country person, 父兄 kills for Chu king,
afterwards the child assisted 弃暗投明, rushes to the Wu country,
helped Wu Fachu, five fought enters Chu Duying the city. At that time
Chu Pingwang has died, sub- assists 掘墓 flogs a corpse 300, to the
newspaper kills 父兄 the enmity. After Wu Wanghe the hut dies, its
sub- husband difference continues the position, the Wu armed force
morale high, is ever-victorious, jumps over the country rout,
越王勾践 please with, the husband difference permits it. Sub-
assists the suggestion, should thoroughly eliminate more the country,
the husband misses does not listen, Wu Guoda butchers, is jumped over
the country bribe, the slanderous talk frames the child to assist,
husband bad letter it, bestows the child to assist the treasured
sword, sub- Xu Yici dies. Sub- Xu Benwei loyal is good, is unafraid of
death, said in front of dying to the neighbor person: \"After I died,
digs out my eye is hanging east gate of in the Wujing, looked more the
country army enters the city to extinguish Wu\", then suicides dies,
the husband misses Wen Yan to be angry, is assisted the wrench the
corpse to install in the leather invests on May 5 the big river,
therefore hands down Dragon Boat Festival also for commemorates date
of the Wu Zixu. The source to commemoration 孝女 Cao the E Dragon
Boat Festival\'s third fable, is for commemorates the Eastern Han
Dynasty (the A.D. 23--220 year) 孝女 Cao Ejiu the father to throw
the river. Cao E is the Eastern Han Dynasty 上虞 person, the father
drowns Yu Jiangzhong, on severalth does not see the corpse, at that
time 孝女 Cao Enian the only 14 years old, the day and night along
the river wailed. Crossed 17 day, also throws the river in May 5, five
will hold the father corpse in the future. Passes on in light of this
for the myth, subsequently hands down to the county government office
county magistrate, made still to set up a stone monument for it, pure
lets his disciple Handan make the eulogy refined language praise.
孝女 grave of the Cao E, in now Zhejiang Shaoxing, rear-drive Cao
Ebei is the Jin king righteousness book. The posterity for
commemorates the Cao E\'s filial piety festival, the river place
constructs Cao Emiao in Cao Etou, she lives the villages and small
towns change name as Cao Ezhen, Cao Exun the father place choose a
name as Cao\'e Jiang. Source Yu Guyue the nationality totem offers a
sacrifice to the modern massive archaeological finds and the
archaeology research confirmed that, Middle and lower reaches Yangtze
River general areas, in the neolites time, some one geometry 印纹
ceramic remains for the characteristic culture. Should remain the race
is, is a worship dragon totem clan and tribe ---- history calls
hundred races according to the expert inference. On the unearthed
earthenware decorative design in a utensil and the historical fable
示明, they have break send 纹身 the custom, lives to the region of
rivers and lakes, compares oneself to others is the dragon
descendants. Its production tool, are massive or the stone implement,
also has the shovel, the chisel and so on the small bronzeware. As in
the daily necessities pots and blows, the fever boils food 印纹 Tao
Ding is they unique, is one of they race group symbols. Still had
hundred people until the the Qin and Han Dynasty time, Dragon Boat
Festival was they establishes uses in to offer a sacrifice to
ancestor\'s holiday. In in the number millennium historical
development, the majority of hundred Vietnamese people\'s already fused
in the Han Nationality to go, other parts evolved for south many
national minorities, therefore, Dragon Boat Festival has become the
entire Chinese nation\'s holiday.
