Sunday, April 02, 2006

Dragon Boat Faestival.

This is the last entry during this semester. Thanks Patrick and all my classmates. You helped me a lot. Because i don't like to write my feeling out, i write another topic in this entry. It's the Dragon Boat Festival.
Dragon Boat Festival occupies an important place in the Chinese traditional culture. Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. On that day, we eat Zongzi and play dragon boat. We must remember a person on that day, his name is Quyuan. Dragon Boat Festival is a day in memory of Quyuan.In 340BC, Quyuan was born in an aristocratic family of Chu state. There were seven main states during this period. They were Qin, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qi. Quyuan was a famous politician and poet at that time. When he was a adult, he had a very important position in Chu state. He was a loyal minister who was trusted by the king of Chu state.Qin state bribed ministers of Chu state to impair the strength of Chu state for conquest China. The minister who was bribed by Qin state bespattered Quyuan in the front of the king of Chu State. By inchmeal, the king of Chu state estranged himself from Quyuan.In 278BC, Chu state was destroyed by Qin state.When Quyuan heard this bad new, he seemed to give himself up to despair and on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, he threw himself into Milo River. Then the people of Chu state rushed him to rescue by dragon boat. They threw Zongzi and eggs into the river to feed the fishes, because they were afraid that the fishes would eat the corpse of Quyuan. Therefore, Dragon Boat Festival is a day to memory of Quyuan.

1 Comments:

Blogger caleb said...

the snow on the screen really hurt my eyes!!! i nearly become blind after reading several sentences...

11:29 PM  

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