It is not recorded in the official history, but the Xiangyang Customs of the Jin Dynasty said: "Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and his wife sacrificed it every time she threw food into the water." It means that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, his wife would throw food into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May every year as a sacrifice to Qu Yuan. In the Qing Dynasty, the Collection of Ancient and Modern Catalogues recorded that there was a phoenix temple six miles southwest of Yiyang County, Hunan Province, dedicated to Qu Yuan's wife and son, and the Qing Dynasty's Yiyang County Records also recorded the same.

Qu Yuan (about 340 BC or 339 ~ 278 BC), a poet and politician of Chu State in the Warring States Period, was born in Danyang, Yichang City, Hubei Province. His surname was Mi, Qu, Ming Ping and Yuan Zi. And because the name of the cloud is regular, the spirit word is general, during the Warring States period. Chu Wuwang Xiong Tong's son Qu Xian's descendants. When I was a teenager, I was well educated, knowledgeable and ambitious. In his early years, he was trusted by Chu Huaiwang as Zuotu, and was also a doctor of San Lv, in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs. He advocated "American politics", promoting and appointing talents internally, perfecting statutes and uniting external forces to resist Qin. Slashed by nobles, he was exiled to Hanbei and Yuanxiang Valley. After General Qin attacked Ying, the capital of Chu State (now Jiangling, Hubei Province), Qu Yuan drowned in the Miluo River and died heroically.

Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in the history of China, the founder of China's romantic literature, the founder and representative author of Chu Ci, which pioneered the tradition of "vanilla beauty", and is known as "the ancestor of China's poetry" and "the ancestor of Ci". The appearance of Qu Yuan marks that China's poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality. Qu Yuan's major works include Li Sao, Nine Songs, Nine Chapters and Tian Wen. Chu Ci, with Qu Yuan's works as the main body, is the source of China's romantic literature, and it is also called "coquettish" with The Book of Songs, which has a far-reaching influence on later poetry.