The story of Dragon Boat Festival

Story about the Dragon Boat Festival: Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, who threw himself into the river on the fifth day of May. People were afraid that fish in the river would eat his body, so they went home and threw rice balls into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from ruining Qu Yuan's body. Later, eating zongzi became a custom.

Full story:

Qu Ping, formerly known as Qu Yuan, was born in Danyang (now Zigui, Hubei) at the end of the Warring States Period, and was a descendant of Qu Xian, the son of Wang Nengtong of Wu Meng. Although Qu Yuan was loyal to Chu Huaiwang, he was repeatedly rejected. After the death of King Huai, Xiang Wang was exiled because he listened to slanderers, and finally died in the Miluo River. It is said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the local people immediately rowed for rescue, and all the way to Dongting Lake, but Qu Yuan's body was never seen. It was raining at that time, and the boats on the lake gathered at the pavilion on the shore.

When people learned that it was to salvage the sage Dr. Qu, they went out in the rain and rushed into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to mourn, people rowed on rivers, and later it gradually developed into a dragon boat race. People were afraid that fish in the river would eat his body, so they went home and threw rice balls into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from ruining Qu Yuan's body. Later, eating zongzi became a custom. Eating zongzi and cold dragon boat on the Dragon Boat Festival seems to be related to commemorating Qu Yuan, as evidenced by Wen Xiu's poem "Dragon Boat Festival" in the Tang Dynasty: "The festival is self-accurate, and it has been widely known as Qu Yuan throughout the ages. The forbidden court is ridiculous and can't be washed straight.