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	racing in Taiwan and China 2006
		The river we were racing on was tidal, the afternoons were stormy and the water became quite rough.
		Miluo is the epicentre of the tradition of dragon boating as it is here that the poet Qu Yuan drowned himself in protest against the corruption of the court of the kingdom of Chu around 350BC.
		Getting to Miluo was quite a journey, a flight from Taipei to Hong Kong, ferry to the very modern spacious city of Shenzhen in China, bus to a very smart impressive airport quite a distance from the city, flight to Chengsha, and finally economy bus to Miluo.
	www.dragonboat.org.za /june06.html (2534 words)

	Pilgrims Commemorate Ancient Poet at Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Visitors to the Qu Yuan Memorial in Miluo City, Hunan Province were almost twice as many as usual, including visitors from the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Malaysia, said Xu Weiming, head of the memorial.
		With the opening of the Miluo River International Dragon Boat Rally Saturday, a number of participants and tourists were attracted to the memorial to commemorate the great patriotic poet.
		He drowned himself in the Miluo River in Hunan Province, central China, on the fifth of the fifth month of the year of 278 BC of the Chinese lunar calendar, hoping that his death could stimulate the king to revitalize their kingdom.
	china.org.cn /english/2005/Jun/131722.htm (236 words)

	2006 Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival
		Overcome by sadness, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth moon.
		The act of searching for his body in the boats gradually turned into the tradition of the Dragon boat race, which is held every year on the day of his suicide.
		Dragon boats are raced on rivers in China and the surrounding countries.
	www.lbdragonboat.com /history.htm (386 words)

	Brisbane River Dragons
		Upon hearing this he threw himself into the Miluo River (situated in present day Hunan province) and drowned himself, thus dying with his country.
		Qu Yuan was held in high esteem by the people of Chu, and when they heard the news of his suicide, the villagers rushed to his rescue in their boats, they were too late however to save Qu Yuan and his body was never found.
		These packets were zongzi, and while there are several versions of the story of Qu Yuan and how zongzi came about, it is still apart of the traditions of dragon boating to this day.
	www.brisbaneriverdragons.com /dragonboat_history.htm (418 words)

	Sydney Dragon Blades: Dragon Boat History
		In 298 B.C. Quyuan was exiled to the south of the Yangtze River where he settled for twenty years in Miluo, until his death.
		The temple used to be located close to the river bank in the late year of the Chu State, in the Warring State period.
		According to legendary stories, Zong Zi were made especially to be thrown into the river, both as a sacrifice to Qu Yuan, and in the hope that this would prevent the fish from eating his body, so giving him immortality.
	www.sydneydragonblades.com /history.htm (670 words)

	Calendar of Events - Dragon Boat Festival
		In a last desperate protest, he threw himself into the river and drown.
		Qu Yuan's sympathizers jumped into boats, beat the water with their oars and made rice dumplings wrapped in reed-leaves (zongzi) and scattered them into the Miluo River in the hope that fish in the river would eat the rice dumplings instead of the body of the deceased poet.
		Later the activity became a popular event in many places along rivers and lakes throughout the world as dragon-boat races.
	www.phxchinatown.com /dragon_boat.htm (238 words)

	All You Need To Know About China
		The local people wrapped glutinous rice in mugwort leaves and threw it into the river to lure the shrimps, fish and crabs away form the remains of the deceased poet.
		To show their respect and longings for the great patriotic poet, the Chinese make it a point to mark the anniversary of his death by eating zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, and holding dragon boat races.
		Dragon boats and the folklore associate with them originated in the Miluo River and the Dongting Lake, on whose shores the patriotic poet Qu Yuan had lived and composed poems during his lifetime.
	www.cntravel.biz /china/-festivals/summer2.htm (1222 words)

	Dragon Boat/Festival/Custom/bashu.net
		When villagers heard he had thrown himself into the river, they rushed in their boats to try to save him, but they were too late.
		If you happen to visit southern China around the time of this festival and are in a town with a river, you will surely have the chance to see some magnificent racing.
		So they threw packets of rice into the river to feed the hungry animals and asked them to eat the rice instead of Qu Yuan's body.
	www.bashu.net /custom/festival/e_dragon_boat.htm (1224 words)

	Visitors commemorate ancient poet at traditional festival
		Qu Yuan memorial were almost twice as many as usual, including visitors from the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Malaysia, said Xu Weiming, head of the memorial.
		Dragon Boat Rally Saturday, a number of participants and tourists were attracted to the memorial to commemorate the great patriotic poet.
		Dragon Boat Festival,when local fishermen row dragon boats along the Miluo River to search for Qu Yuan and scatter glutinous rice dumplings, known as Zongzi in Chinese, into the water to prevent fish and shrimps from attacking his body.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_newupdate/2005-06/13/content_69611.htm (187 words)

	Yangtze River Tour: Qu Yuan Memorial Hall (Qu Yuan Ci)
		Regretting the failure to realize the political ambition of vitalizing the state, he threw himself into the Miluo River.
		The Qu Yuan Memorial Hall was built in the Zigui County during the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907).
		Embraced by forests of mandarin orange and cypress, it stands against the hill and faces the river.
	www.warriortours.com /river/quyuan.htm (180 words)

	Quyuan And The Dragonboat Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Upon hearing the death of King Huai and fallen of Chu's capital on his way of exile into the rural countryside, Qu Yuan drowned himself in the Miluo River in today's Hunan Province.
		The dragon boat races are held not only on the Miluo River but also in many places in China including Hong Kong every year.
		Instead of dumping the food in the river, they would prepare the food every year on the Duanwu Festival, hold a ceremony, then shared the food in their families.
	nanhuatong.com /People/Quyuan.html (507 words)

	Dragon Boat Festival - WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD - BlogBus.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The festival is best known for its dragon-boat races, especially in the southern provinces where there are many rivers and lakes.
		Realizing that the country was now in the hands of evil and corrupt officials, Qu grabbed a large stone and leapt into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month.
		The people of Chu who mourned the death of Qu threw rice into the river to feed his ghost every year on the fifth day of the fifth month.
	mingxuan.blogbus.com /logs/2006/05/2575172.html (538 words)

	The Dragon Boat Festival
		A victim of political and court intrigues, he took his own life by clasping a stone to his breast and drowned himself in the MiLuo river on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month (This year it coincides with 5 June).
		One version has it that in order to prevent the river dragons from devouring his body the people threw rice dumplings (zongzi) wrapped in bamboo leaves and tied with red silk strings into the river, thus the dragon boats and later boat races.
		Another version is that the dumplings were thrown into the river to lure the fish away from QuYuan's body.
	taipingtalk.com /forum/posts/219.html (399 words)

	China History Forum, chinese history forum > Dragon Boat festival
		This story was later passed on around the folks and in order to prevent the fish from eating the body of Quyuan, the chinese sailed on the dragon boat and threw dumpling into the river for the fish to eat.
		The Chu Kingdom is attacked by a rival army and the kingdom is is danger of falling.
		The spirit of Quyuan appears to one of the fisherman and tells him that the buns are being eaten by a large dragon who lives in the river so in order to fool the dragon they must wrap the buns in red silk and tie them with five different colors of cord.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /lofiversion/index.php/t213.html (1504 words)

	NEN-English
		In the ancient tradition sacrifices and offerings, like 粽子zongzi or rice filled bamboo tubes were thrown into the river or sea to appease the dragon and the tradition of the dragon boat races is said to have also begun.
		It began in the south along the Chang Jiang River and its tributaries, but they are now performed in the north and else where in China.
		In commemoration of Chu Yuan’s passing the people of Chu continued the tradition of throwing bamboo tubes filled with rice into the Miluo River on Dragon boat Festival Day in memory of him.
	218.25.39.149 /74591976929886208/20030604/1157021.shtml (1032 words)

	Yueyang Int'l Boat Dragon Festival \| China Highlights Travel
		As part of the memorial celebration, there will be Dragon boat race on Miluo River, where Qu Yuan drowned himself.
		Yueyang, the "City of the Dragon Boat," and the Miluo River which runs through it, are the cradles of dragon boat culture.
		On May 5th of the lunar calendar, 278 BC, Qu Yuan, the patriotic poet, drowned himself in the Miluo River.
	www.chinahighlights.com /travelguide/festival/boat_festival.htm (213 words)

	DRAGON BOATS, Yueyang Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		Hearing of the imminent invasion, Qu picked up a heavy stone and drowned himself in the nearby Miluo River rather than see the state he loved conquered.
		It's a lively spectator sport, with crowds cheering their rowers along, and you need to be up early to get the most from the ceremonies - such as the dedication of the dragon-headed prows - as the race itself lasts only a few minutes.
		The event is still held on the Miluo River south of Yueyang, and in 1995 the first International Dragon-boat Competition took place here, with boats from various countries extending the proceedings.
	www.infohub.com /Destinations/Asia/China/Yueyang/54320.htm (332 words)

	Snatching the Last Word(s): suicide and narrativity in Chinese literary history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Shortly after explaining his refusal to join the drunk and the dirty and their ilk, this poet with unbridled imagination, in despair over the state of affairs with his country, held onto a rock and drowned himself in the Miluo River along with his unrequited love for his native state Chu.
		Qu Yuan’s self-precipitated mortality was met with a kind of narrative immortality, for even over two thousand year later he remains for the Chinese a name synonymous with passionate, unequivocal loyalty and the bohemian bardic ideal.
		Also born on the shores of the Miluo was a ritual of remembrance now built into the calendar— for each year during the Duanwu Festival every Chinese is given an occasion to compare the reality of his/her life with the mythic ideal created by Qu Yuan.
	newpaltz.edu /asianstudies/nycas/RyanAwardGraduate2002LindaRuiFeng.html (6551 words)

	Dragon Boat Festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the "Poet's Festival," commemorates the death of the ancient Chinese poet-statesman, Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the Miluo River 2,500 years ago out of despair over the corrupt condition of the government.
		Similar stories state that the people set out with these rice dumplings across the river in boats with flags and gongs, striving to be first to arrive at the spot of the tragedy to sacrifice to the spirit of the statesman.
		From these legends evolved the practice of commemorating the anniversary of Qu's death by eating zong zi, which are typically glutinous rice, meat and beans wrapped in bamboo leaves.
	www.jadedragon.com /archives/celebrations/dragonbm.html (359 words)

	Dragon Boat Races in Sichuan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In memory of the great patriot poet Qu Yuan of the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.), Dragon Boat Regattas are held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.
		This festival honors the virtuous third-century poet-reformer who despaired at the futility of his efforts at reform, jumped into the Miluo River and drowned himself.
		Here the coxswain shouts out the strokes to his straining crew in a race on the Miluo River in Hunan province, the site of the original event.
	www.paulnoll.com /China/Excursions/dragon-boat-closeup.html (117 words)

	China Province - Region, Regional
		It is located at the juncture of the Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River in northern Hunan.
		Feeling disappointed with saving the country, he drowned himself in the Miluo River.
		The temple is on the Yusishan Mountain in Miluo of Yueyang.
	www.cntravel.biz /china_columns/provinces/hunan/hun_yuey.shtml (294 words)

	Pagal to China 5-06
		The men and women of Team USA will compete against teams from all over the world in 500, 1000 and 3000 meter races in Miluo River, Nanning, and Guangxi, China.
		Dragon Boating began in China in 278 B.C. while the former state of Chu was being invaded by Qin armies.
		Rather than see his state conquered, he threw himself into the Miluo River.
	www.socccd.cc.ca.us /pio/PagaltoChina5-06.asp (376 words)

	The Dragon Boast Festival,China trip,China travel,China tour,China hotels,China travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		However, he became frustrated with the status quo and ultimately committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo river.
		people rushed from all over, rowing dragon boats on the river in an attempt to find his remains, which were thought to have drifted downstream never to be recovered.
		As part of the festival, people throw rice-filled bamboo tubes into the river as an offering.During the Duanwu Festival, it is also a common practice to eat zongzi, which is a rice pudding wrapped up with weed leaves.
	www.chinaseasons.com /webpages/culture/dragonboat.htm (394 words)

	Culture CRIENGLISH
		Visitors to the Qu Yuan memorial were almost twice as many as usual, including visitors from the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Malaysia, said Xu Weiming, head of the memorial.
		He drowned himself in the Miluo River in Hunan Province, central China, on May 5, 278 BC of the Chinese lunar calendar, hoping that his death could stimulate the king to revitalize their kingdom.
		The date has since been remembered as the Dragon Boat Festival,when local fishermen row dragon boats along the Miluo River to search for Qu Yuan and scatter glutinous rice dumplings, known as Zongzi in Chinese, into the water to prevent fish and shrimps from attacking his body.
	en1.chinabroadcast.cn /2242/2005-6-12/126@246508.htm (271 words)

	Barcelona Dragon Boats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Disillusioned by the political future of his province, in his despair he committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo river.
		They never found his body and the legend has it that the river dragon took away the body and spirit of this much loved and noble
		In many parts of China and Asia on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month dragon boat races are held to celebrate this tragic event.
	www.barcelona-dragonboats.com /eng/history.htm (136 words)

	Zigui Local Show of Yangtze Three Gorges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Because the political corruption of Chu State, he felt his political dream would not come true.
		He drowned himself in the Miluo River in Hunan Province.
		It was said that his body was brought to Zigui by a deity fish.
	www.yangtzecruises.cn /Zigui_Local_Show.asp (201 words)

	Oldest traditional food found in Jiangxi tomb - China - News Brief - Newsgd
		He lived in the state of Chu during the Warring States period (475 BC to 221 BC).
		He drowned himself in the Miluo River in 278 BC, on May 5 of the Chinese lunar calendar, hoping that his death could stimulate the king to revitalize their kingdom.
		The date has since been remembered as the Dragon Boat Festival,on which local fishermen would row dragon boats along the Miluo river to search for Qu Yuan and scatter glutinous rice dumplings in the water to prevent the fish and shrimps from eating his body.
	www.newsgd.com /news/china1/200506100040.htm (429 words)

	prjReleseQryCN
		Dingbai Bridge is one of the 11 Xiangjiang bridges in Changsha’s Overall Plan to 2020, located in middle and lower reaches of Xiangjiang River, linking Dingzhi Town and Baishazhou of Wangcheng County, with 2400m long and 23m wide, adopting super-structure case beam.
		Huoxing north road Liuyang river bridge’s total length is 609m,wide is 29m,is the Huoxing north road controlling project, it propose to operate in September of 2005, build up on December 31, 2006
		The propose Miluo river bridge’s main bridge adopts concrete tube to prop up continuous 40MT beam bridge, bridge approach adopts concrete tube to prop up continuous 30MT beam bridge.
	hunaninvest.gov.cn /hnimisweb/EN/prjReleaseQryEn.aspx?PrjIndustryID=36 (407 words)

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