端午遐思: poet and murder

Yesterday... dragon boat festival. I never know wats the correct english translation for it.... so dragon boat will have to do...lol
every time it comes i am reminded of the story behind it.
The most well known version: a poet and politician who was very disillusioned abt the king, worried that his country would be invaded by a kingdom from the west. In order to give protest to the king's nonchalance... He jumped into a river and killed himself. Later days people remember him by having boat race on the river and throwing down rice wrapped in leaves cos they think he mite go hungry living down there in the riverbed.
but i just remembered another theory i read once on newspaper when i was stil a kid, the more i think about it the more sense it makes.
The poet fell in love with the king's most favourite concubine (the allusion of which is not so obscure in a few of his poems) Either an affair ensued or the king just want to make sure it won't happen, but to avoid public exposure, he sent for an assassin.
Then try to imagine the situation, the assassin followed the poet to the riverside. Desperate to escape the poet got on a boat, and the assassin started chasing on a boat as well. (sounds familiar? the dragon boat race) Eventually the assassin caught up with the poet, murdered him, and wrapped his body up, tied up with strings (even more familiar? 粽子) and threw the body into the river. People who witnessed the murder on shore do not dare to expose the king, but left clues of the murder in all the traditions we have today.
History is often unplesant situations idealised.
I didn't post this yesterday in fear of ruining ur appetites for 粽子... my most sincere apology if any discomfort is caused. ^0^