Qu Yuan (c. 340 BC – 278 BC), courtesy name Qu (芈氏), qu (屈氏), mingping (名平), ziyuan (字原), also known as Zhengze (正則) and Zi Lingjun (字靈均), was born in Danyang, Chu (present-day Yichang, Hubei), poet and politician of the State of Chu during the Warring States period. Qu Yuan was a descendant of Qu Feng, the son of Xiong Tong, the King of Chuwu. Because he was ostracized and slandered by the nobles, he was exiled to the Northern Han Dynasty and the Yuanxiang River Valley. After the Chu state was attacked by the Qin army, he sank himself to the Miluo River and martyred the Chu state. He was a great patriotic poet in Chinese history, the founder of Chinese romantic literature, the founder and representative writer of "Chu Ci", who opened up the tradition of "vanilla beauty" and was known as the "ancestor of Chu Ci", and the famous poets of the Chu state, Song Yu, Tang Le, and Jing Cha, were all influenced by Qu Yuan. The day qu Yuan committed suicide is said to be the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival for Chinese people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in the Wuyue area, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat racing on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, but because Qu Yuan died on this day, it evolved into a traditional festival for Chinese people to commemorate Qu Yuan. Nowadays, many places in China's great rivers and north rivers have retained the custom of eating rice dumplings and rowing dragon boats during the Dragon Boat Festival.
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