The Miluo River is an important river in the Dongting Lake

Dongting Lake

Dongting Lake, or Lake Dongting is a large, shallow lake in northeastern Hunan province, China. It is a flood basin of the Yangtze River . Hence the lake's size depends on the season...

 watershed

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

. It is famous as the location of the ritual suicide in 278 BC

278 BC

Year 278 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Luscinus and Papus...

 of Qu Yuan

Qu Yuan

Qu Yuan was a Chinese poet who lived during the Warring States Period in ancient China. He is famous for his contributions to the poetry collection known as the Chu-ci...

, a poet of Chu state

Chu (state)

The State of Chu was a Zhou Dynasty vassal state in present-day central and southern China during the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States Period . Its ruling house had the surname Nai , and clan name Yan , later evolved to surname Mi , and clan name Xiong...

 during the Warring States period

Warring States Period

The Warring States Period , also known as the Era of Warring States, or the Warring Kingdoms period, covers the Iron Age period from about 475 BC to the reunification of China under the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC...

, in protest against the corruption of the era.

Originating in Xiushui County

Xiushui County

Xiushui County is a county under Jiujiang City in Jiangxi Province, China.-External links:...

 of Jiangxi

Jiangxi

' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...

 province, the Miluo river is about 400 km long. It passes Pingjiang county in Hunan

Hunan

' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...

 and empties into Dongting Lake in Miluo

Miluo

Miluo is a county-level city in China in the Province of Hunan. It belongs to the prefecture-level city of Yueyang. There are 658,867 inhabitants in the administrative area 90,700 people lived in the town proper.-External links:*...

 city. The river is formed by the confluence of the Mi and Luo

Luo River

Luo River may refer to:*Luo River , river in Henan, China*Luo River , river in Shaanxi, China*Lô River, river in Vietnam...

 rivers, of which the Mi river is the main branch. The two rivers become the Miluo river after joining in Daqiuwan (大丘湾), Miluo city.

See also

• Qu Yuan
  Qu Yuan
  Qu Yuan was a Chinese poet who lived during the Warring States Period in ancient China. He is famous for his contributions to the poetry collection known as the Chu-ci...