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What is the relationship between the Dragon Boat Festival and Qu Yuan? Is Dragon Boat Festival relat

When it comes to Dragon Boat Festival, we have known since childhood that Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. Is it really like this? Many people may have seen, or at least heard, mango stage's Miss beauty. One of the major features of the play is that it gives a different image of Qu Yuan: the young version of Qu Yuan, full of the light of youth.

After reading "Miss Beauty", I knew that the Dragon Boat Festival had nothing to do with Qu Yuan.

At the same time, it popularized a common sense to us: the Dragon Boat Festival has nothing to do with Qu Yuan, which has been a consensus among folklorists.

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There are two reasons why commemorating Qu Yuan is not the source of Dragon Boat Festival

First, the saying that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from Qu Yuan is much later than the festival itself. As we know, Sima Qian is Qu Yuan's loyal fan. His biography for Qu Yuan is almost the only material to study Qu Yuan. However, in this biography, one does not mention the specific time of Qu Yuan's death, and the other does not mention any connection between Qu Yuan and the Dragon Boat Festival.

The earliest reference to the Dragon Boat Festival originated from Qu Yuan was in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Ying Shao, a scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wrote in his folklore book the general meaning of Customs: "on May 5, those who tie their arms with five colored silk can dispel soldiers and ghosts, which makes people not sick and warm. Because of Qu Yuan. '

It's very late for the origin of Dragon Boat Festival.

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