The custom was that people would throw zhongzi into the river while rowing the boats, and the idea is that fish would eat these rice balls and leave the body of Qu Yuan alone. To this day, the Duanwu festival (Tuen Ng Festival in Cantonese) is a festival to mourn his death, and the customs of eating zhongzi or a kind of sticky rice ball with meat in it and rowing dragon boats all have something to do with his suicide. He was banished from the court of the state of Chu, alienated from his king, because of the slander of his political enemies so he wrote the great poem Li Sao, and finally he threw himself into the river Miluo and was drowned. Linda DavisIn A Different Light 1991 Capitol Records NashvilleReleased on. Qu Yuan is the archetypal exile in classical Chinese literature. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupKnowin Well Never Know It is translated by David Hawkes as “On Encountering Trouble,” and included in the Penguin Classics series under the title of The Songs of the South. Commenting on the Li Sao, Zhang Longxi noted the following: ‘The Li Sao is the title of the poet Qu Yuan’s (c.
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