Miluo River (汨罗江) is a river in Hunan province, China. The Murray River in Australia. ... Hunan (Chinese: 湖南; pinyin: ) is a province of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting (hence the name Hunan, meaning south of the lake). Hunan is sometimes called 湘 (pinyin: Xiāng) for short, after the Xiang River which runs through the province. ...
It is associated with Qu Yuan who commited suicide by jumping in the river in 278 BC. Qu Yuan (Simplified Chinese: 屈原; Traditional Chinese: 屈原; Pinyin: qū yúan) (340 BC - 278 BC) was a Chinese patriotic poet from southern Chu during the Warring States Period. ... Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC - 270s BC - 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 283 BC 282 BC 281 BC 280 BC 279 BC - 278 BC - 277 BC 276 BC 275...
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.
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