Our people to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, an annual Lunar New Year Dragon Boat Festival in May every fifth day, the custom spread to the DPRK, Japan, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries.
Qu Yuan, lived in two thousand three hundred years ago in the Warring States era, a young man to cherish lofty aspirations, demonstrated a remarkable talent was grandson of the trust, the official "left only", according to Sima Qian's "Shi Ji" recorded in his "affairs of state and Wang proposed plans," outside "then the event guests to meet the princes," is in charge of internal affairs, foreign affairs minister.
This is the Warring States Period of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, Qin Qixiong hegemony of chaos, Qin Shang Yang after the appointment of increasingly powerful, often launch attacks against the six countries. Chu and Qi were only able to compete with them. In view of the situation at that time, Qu Yuan advocated improved internal and external advocates Qi Gang Qin, and thus against the interests of the upper ruling class, who was the grandson of bribery under the favorite concubine Qin Zheng Xiu, Shangguan doctor, Yoshitada sub pepper exclusion and framed.
Listen to calumny huai confused, alienated Qu Yuan, he was exiled to the north of Han, the result was the grandson of a prisoner for three years when Qin cheated, died in a foreign country.
Qu Yuan, see all of this, extreme anger. He firmly opposed to the state of Qin humiliating surrender, which was the persecution of political opponents are more serious. The new reign of King Xiang is more stupid than his father, banished Qu Yuan to the Chinese and the North than the more remote areas.
In the long life of exile, Qu Yuan did not. He insisted that his political views, and never follow the crowd. Picked up a pen writing a love for their motherland, to denounce "N group" harm the country for future generations to leave the immortal poems.
Qu Yuan, a Chinese literary history of the greatest and most distinguished Romantic poet, called him after the work is "Songs of the South." Masterpiece is the "Lament", which is the longest of Qu Yuan a lyric poem, a total of three hundred seventy-three, two thousand seven hundred and seventy seven words of the poem describes the poet to practice their own political views are being attack and persecution, must express their inner pain, faithful to the people and the feelings of the motherland.
Qu Yuan in the long journey of exile, the spirit and life suffered devastation and suffering is imagined. One day he is Singing River, encountered a fishing hermit, hermit to see him looking haggard haggard, advised him "Do not rigidly stick to", "easy-going number", and the bigwigs were in cahoots. Yuan said: "I would rather go to Xiang River flows buried in the belly of the fish; security can Haohao of white, and almost dust mask secular?" Year seven to eight tests, was the capital of Chu Chi broken, the spirit of the poet has been a great blow, seeing the difficulty of breaking the country, but can not use his power, he was so frightened that in extreme disappointment and pain, the poet came to the east of the Yangtze River Miluo, bouldering and drowned. He died about sixty years old, it is the Lunar May tenth.
Two thousand years of age, which in the course of history can not be considered just a moment, but despite the drain, dusk to dawn-to, the image of the poet Qu Yuan, but still remain in people's heart. Today, Dragon Boat Festival every day, people are still in the river in the dragon boat racing, the dumplings, multicolored silk tie to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan, see the works of the poet and the spirit is eternal it!
我国人民为纪念伟大爱国诗人屈原，每年农历五月初五都要过端午节，这个风俗后来传到了朝鲜、日本、缅甸、越南、马来西亚、印尼等国。
屈原，生活在两千三百多年前的战国时代，年轻时就胸怀远大抱负，表现出惊人的才能，得到了楚怀王信任，官至“左徒”，据司马迁《史记》记载，他内“与王图议国事”，外“接遇宾客，应付诸侯”，是掌管内政、外交的大臣。
战国本是齐、楚、燕、韩、赵、魏、秦七雄争霸的混乱时期，秦国任用商鞅变法后日益强大，常对六国发动进攻。当时只有楚国和齐国能与之抗衡。鉴于当时形势，屈原主张改良内政，对外主张联齐抗秦，因而侵害了上层统治阶级的利益，遭到了那些受秦国贿赂的楚怀王的宠姬郑袖、上官大夫、令尹子椒的排挤和陷害。
糊涂的怀王听信谗言，疏远屈原，把他放逐到汉北，结果楚怀王被秦国骗去当了三年阶下囚，死在异国。
屈原看到这一切，极端气愤。他坚决反对向秦国屈辱投降，这遭到政敌们更严重的迫害。新即位的楚襄王比他父亲更昏庸，把屈原放逐到比汉北更偏僻的地方。
在长期的流放生活中，屈原没有屈服。他坚持自己的政治主张，决不随波逐流。拿起笔抒写自己对祖国的热爱，指斥“群小”误国，为后人留下了千古不朽的诗篇。
屈原是中国文学史上第一个最伟大、最杰出的浪漫主义诗人，后人称他的作品为“楚辞”。代表作是《离骚》，这是屈原作品中最长的一首抒情诗，共三百七十三句，两千七百七十七个字，诗中叙述了诗人为实行自己的政治主张所遭受的打击和迫害，深刻表达自己内心的痛苦、对人民和对祖国忠贞不渝的感情。
屈原在长期的流放跋涉中，精神和生活上所受的摧残和痛苦是可想而知的。一天他正在江畔行吟，遇到一个打渔的隐者，隐者见他面色憔悴形容枯槁，就劝他“不要拘泥”、“随和一些”，和权贵们同流合污。屈原道：“宁赴湘流葬于江鱼之腹中;安能以皓皓之白，而蒙世俗之尘埃乎?”检验公元二七八年，楚国的都城被秦兵攻破，诗人精神上受到了极大的打击，眼看国破之难，却又无法施展自己的力量，他忧心如焚，在极端失望和痛苦中，诗人来到了长江东边的汨罗江，抱石自沉。他死时大约六十二岁，正是农历五月初五。
两千多年的岁月，这在历史的长河中不能算短短的一瞬了，可是尽管大江东去，暮往朝来，诗人屈原的形象却依然留在人们心间。如今，每到端午节那天，人们仍要在江河里划龙舟，把粽子系上五彩丝线来纪念伟大的诗人屈原，可见诗人的作品和精神是永存的了!