Similarly, House of Salt and Sorrows is a dark and watery book. To rescue his body, people raced there on boats and when they couldn’t save him, they threw sticky rice so the fish would eat that instead of Qu Yuan’s body, leading to the practices of Dragon Boat Racing and eating Zongzi. Unfortunately, the emperor should have listened to Qu Yuan because his kingdom fell and when Qu Yuan heard what had happened, he threw himself into the river.
Qu Yuan advised the emperor on a military alliance, but the emperor refused to listen to him and sent him into exile.
If you haven’t heard of Duan Wu Jie, one of the legends surrounding it involves a man named Qu Yuan, who was a minister during the Warring States period. Since today is 端午节 (Duan Wu Jie dragon boat festival), I thought it would be fitting that I review a rather dark and watery book.
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