2. Qu Yuan advocated using talents and empowering people to make them rich, and advocated uniting against Qin, which was strongly opposed by others. Qu Yuan was expelled from the capital and exiled to the Yuan and Xiang river basins.
3. During his exile, he wrote immortal poems such as Li Sao, Tian Wen and Tian Wen, which have a unique style and far-reaching influence (therefore, Dragon Boat Festival is also called Poet's Day). In 278 BC, Qin Jun conquered Kyoto of Chu.
Qu Yuan was heartbroken when he saw his motherland being invaded, but he couldn't bear to give up his motherland all the time. On May 5th, after writing his masterpiece Huai Sha, he died in the Miluo River and wrote a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.
Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. At first, it was a totem festival of tribes who worshipped dragon totem in Baiyue area (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south area). Before the Spring and Autumn Period in Baiyue area, it was customary to hold totem festivals for tribes in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
6. Later, because Qu Yuan, a poet from the State of Chu (now Hubei) in the Warring States period, threw himself into the Miluo River on that day, the ruler took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan in order to establish the label of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism. In some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E are also commemorated. Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals of the Han nationality in China.