Zhang Daqiang, deputy director of the Tourism Bureau of Yuanling County, Hunan Province, who has been engaged in dragon boat research for a long time, collected 104 writers and scholars' incisive exposition on Yuanling dragon boat in the book "Yuanling Millennium Dragon Boat". Yuanling Dragon Boat originated in ancient times, and the object of sacrifice was Pan Hu, the ancestor of the five rivers. After Pan Hu's death, six tribes feasted on the wizard and invited God to bring him back to life. Because of the dense mountains and rivers in Yuanling, the wizard didn't know where his soul had fallen, so he asked all ethnic groups to build dragon boats and look for shouts by stream and river, which eventually evolved into a witch worship activity of rowing and evoking souls. Yuanling Dragon Boat originated 5,000 years ago, more than 3,000 years earlier than the statement commemorating Qu Yuan.