So he drowned himself in the Miluo River. In order to keep his body safe in the water, many people threw Zongzi into the river to prevent the fishes from eating his body.
Qu Yuan (BC 340 - BC278) The origin of Dragon Boat Festival is said to be from the Warring States Period when the patriotic poet, Qu Yuan, drowned himself in the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The Miluo River (traditional Chinese: 汨羅江; simplified Chinese: 汨罗江; pinyin: Mìluójiāng, and with modified Wade–Giles using the form Mi-lo) is located on the eastern bank of Dongting Lake, the largest tributary of the Xiang River in the northern Hunan Province. Sima Qian's biography of Qu Yuan in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), though circumstantial and probably influenced greatly by Sima's own identification with Qu, is the only source of information on Qu's life.
The entry 17563.1 汨羅 mentions only a Milo River in Jiangxi, but the one above Changsha is the one now commonly associated with Qu Yuan. Liu Yuxi. He saw his country occupied by Qin but he couldn't do anything.
He disregarded Qu Yuan's advice not to surrender to the Qin. You can laugh at the emptiness of the Chu River, but you can't wash the direct officials. Sima wrote that Qu was a member of the Chu royal clan and served as an official under King Huai of Chu (reigned 328–299 BC). He once was a high official but exiled by the king of Chu State. Resulting Traditions Since then, people in the Miluo River area (about 50 km north of Changsha in central China's Hunan Province) have followed similar practices to commemorate Qu Yuan on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The song of the year of Lingjun has already been sung. According to the legend of Qu Yuan, Qu Yuan felt so upset and sorrow about his country and his people that on the lunar May fifth he threw himself into the Miluo River and such ended his life. In 278 BC, upon learning that the Chu State had been defeated by the Qin, Qu Yuan, in great despair and distress, ended his life by drowning in the Miluo River in the northeastern part of Hunan Province. The dragon boats from which Duanwu Jie gets its English name are supposedly rushing to retrieve his body before it could be eaten by the fish, though in reality it's a separate tradition that just happened to get associated with Qu later on. For Chinese, today is Duanwu Festival, one of the important festival in Chinese culture.Duanwu Festival or in Mandarin 端午节 (Duanwu jie) falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of Lunar Calendar.
It's said that Qu Yuan is from ancient times. Realizing that the country was now in the hands of evil and corrupt officials, Qu grabbed a large stone and leapt into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month. Track music. Qu Yuan was exiled to an even further away than before. In despair over his banishment, Qu Yuan wandered about southern Chu, writing poetry and observing the shamanistic folk rites and legends that greatly influenced his works. 17563.3 Miluo has Luo with the water radical (character not in my computer), saying it is a variant of 汨羅 Miluo formerly used for the river of that name that flows westward into the Xiang River between Changsha and Yueyang. With his top adviser gone, he fell for the trickery of the Qin and his kingdom was eventually conquered. Heartbroken, his faith in mankind shaken, Qu dashed off a few more poems and then walked into the Miluo River holding a stone. Qu Yuan is of course renowned for eventually having thrown himself in sorrow into the Miluo River as a protest to the corruption of his government, the reason for many Chinese to mark the annual Dragon Boat Festival by throwing rice dumplings into the river from dragon boats in the futile wish that the fish would eat the dumplings instead of the tormented poet.
drowned himself in the Miluo River in Hunan Province.