The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. Every year on this day, many people would package dumplings, women and children also like to use silk sewn into small dumplings, such as heart, gourd, cherry, and little monkey, tiger, etc in the shape of handicrafts, sachets, hanging in his chest. Think of it as a way to prevent disease and throw it away when you wear it at noon.
From the warring states period, ChuQin compete for hegemony, the poet qu yuan is to the king of esteem, however, the idea of qu yuan was more than doctor officer and the opposition of the liuxue86 old school, headed by constantly vilified qu yuan, in front of king huai huai gradually alienated qu yuan, has the ambition of qu yuan tingly, uncontrollable melancholy with himself, he wrote li SAO, jiu ge and other immortal poems.
In 229 b. c., the state of qin occupied eight cities in the state of chu. Then they sent envoys to the state of qin. Qu yuan looked at the plot of the king of qin and put his death into the palace. Not only did the king of chu not listen, but he expelled qu yuan from the capital of chu. When the king of chu went to the meeting, he was imprisoned by the state of qin, and the king of chu was in a state of regret. He was a disease of depression, and he died in the state of qin three years later. The king of qin sent troops to the state of chu, and the king of qin went down to the capital. Qu yuan in exile on the way, h**e heard king huai absent and ying after the death of the city, hopelessness, face upwards with a sigh, invested rolling rapids of the lost.
Jiang on the fishermen and people on shore, I heard that qu yuan doctor jiang himself, h**e come to jiang on, struggling to salvage the body of qu yuan, and brought tzu, eggs into the river, also the realgar wine (Chinese liquor seasoned with realgar) into the river, the in order to turn all aquatic beasts, make the body of qu yuan doctor from harm. From then on, every year in May fifth cast jiang qu yuans martyrdom, chu people rowing to the river and threw zongzi, in order to commemorate a great patriotic poet, the Dragon Boat Festival customs passed down, just like that.