Original text:
The festival is divided into Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to be Qu Yuan.
I can laugh at the emptiness of the Chu River, but I can't wash it straight.
Vernacular translation:
I don't know who initiated the earliest Dragon Boat Festival. The rumor is in memory of Qu Yuan. Just laugh at the empty flow of rivers and rivers, and the stormy waves will not wash away the grievances of ministers.
This article is from the Dragon Boat Festival written by Wen Xiu in the Tang Dynasty.
Extended data writing background:
Dragon Boat Festival, according to legend, is the day when Qu Yuan, the first great man in China, committed suicide. Later generations wronged him and died. In particular, he threw zongzi into the river for sacrifice and rowed a boat to save him, thus forming the custom of solar eclipse and dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival. The author's quatrains put forward a thought-provoking question: despite all kinds of praises and sacrifices of later generations, tragedies like Qu Yuan's sinking into the river still happened after all, and such grievances cannot be simply washed away. This poem is profound, concise and powerful.
Wen Xiu, Jiangnan poet. Zhaozong lives in Chang 'an and devotes himself to writing. With Zheng Gu and Miracle as poetry friends. I have been to Nanwutai. For the deeds, see Volume 74 of Chronicle of Tang Poetry and Volume 3 of Biography of Talented Scholars in Tang Dynasty. There are 1 poems in the whole Tang Dynasty. Another book, After the Splendid Flower Valley, contains four poems by Wen Xiu, and the income of The Whole Tang Poetry Sequel is based on this.