汨罗江

汨羅江
MìluóJiāng
popculture

Meanings

  1. 1 Miluo River (Hunan Province, tributary of the Xiang River, famous as the place where the poet Qu Yuan drowned himself)

Examples

Qū Yuán zài Mìluó Jiāng tóu jiāng zìjìn.
Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River and drowned.
Duānwǔjié sài lóngzhōu de xísú yuán yú Mìluó Jiāng.
The dragon-boat-racing tradition of the Duanwu Festival originated at the Miluo River.

Tips

history
On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 278 BCE, the exiled poet-statesman Qu Yuan (屈原 Qū Yuán) drowned himself in the Miluo in despair over the fall of his home state of Chu. Locals supposedly raced boats out to recover his body and threw rice dumplings into the water to keep fish from eating him — the origins, in popular tradition, of dragon-boat racing and 粽子 (zòngzi) at the Duanwu Festival (端午节).
mistakes
The first character is (mì) — three strokes plus — not the very similar (gǔ, gushing). Even native speakers often write the wrong one; if you see it spelled in casual writing, it's a typo.

Stroke Order

luó
jiāng