Legend has it that during the reign of Emperor Yao, floods often occurred in the Yellow River basin. In order to prevent floods and protect agricultural production, Emperor Yao once called a meeting of tribal leaders to solicit water control experts to calm the floods. Gun is recommended to be in charge of this work.

After accepting the task, Gun used dikes to block water and made a three-block city, that is, surrounded residential areas with simple dikes to block floods. After 9 years of failure, he was finally exiled to Yushan and died. After Shun Di ascended the throne, Gun's son was appointed to manage the water source.

Summing up his father's experience in water control, Yu changed the "blocking obstacles" of Gun to "dredging stagnation", that is, using the natural trend of water flowing from high to low, dredging blocked streams in the right direction.

The flood was introduced into dredged rivers, depressions or lakes, and then connected with the four seas, thus calming the flood and enabling people to move back from the highlands to Pingchuan to live and engage in agricultural production. Later, Yu became the first king of the Xia Dynasty, and was called "Shen Yu", which was passed down from generation to generation.

2. Carp yue longmen

Long, long ago, before the Longmen was cut, Yishui was blocked by Longmen Mountain, and a big lake was piled up to the south of the mountain.

Carps living in the Yellow River have heard that Longmen is beautiful and all want to go sightseeing. They started from the Yellow River in Jin Meng, Henan Province, passed the Luohe River, and then came to the place where Longmen splashed water.

But there is no waterway on Longmen Mountain, so they have to gather at the foot of Longmen North Mountain. "I have an idea. How about we skip this Longmen Mountain? " A red carp said to everyone. "How can you jump so high?" "If you don't jump well, you will fall to your death!" The partners are confused and can't make up their minds. Red carp volunteered and said, "I'll try it first."

I saw it exhausted all its strength from half a mile away, like an arrow that left the string, jumping into the clouds for a long time, driving the clouds and rain in the air forward. A mass of skyfire came from behind and burned its tail. It endured the pain, continued to leap forward, and finally crossed Longmen Mountain and fell into the lake in the south of Shannan. In a blink of an eye, it became a dragon.

Seeing this, the carp in the north of the mountain are scared to shrink together and dare not take any more risks. Just then, I suddenly saw a dragon descending from the sky and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm your partner Red Carp, because I jumped over the Longmen and became a dragon." You have to jump bravely! " "

Hearing these words, the carp was encouraged and began to jump off the Longmen Mountain one by one. But except for a few who jumped into dragons, most of them couldn't get through. Anyone who can't jump over and fall from the air will have a black scar on his forehead. To this day, this black scar still grows on the forehead of the Yellow River carp.

Li Chuangwang crossed the Yellow River.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the court was corrupt and the people were poor. Li Zicheng, the conqueror, led a peasant uprising in Mizhi, Shaanxi Province, crossed the Yellow River and overthrew the Ming Dynasty. It was early winter, and the Yellow River water had not yet frozen, but only when the river was frozen into a solid ice army could it pass smoothly. What shall we do? Chu Zhuangwang worried day and night, and his beard and hair turned white overnight.

The next morning, two men came to report: "The Yellow River has been frozen." King Zhuang was overjoyed and quickly ordered the three armies to cross the river quickly. When I got to the river, I saw that the river was still flowing happily and there was no ice at all. However, there is a wide pontoon bridge connected by boat, which is safe and stable, just suitable for the army to cross the river.

King Zhuang was puzzled and was about to dismount and inspect. Suddenly, two men climbed up from the river and punched Chu Zhuangwang. A clear voice said, "Your Majesty, we are boatmen of the Yellow River." . I heard that you want to cross the river for the benefit of the people, so you spent the whole night building this pontoon bridge and invited the army to go on the road. "

Chu Zhuangwang was moved to tears: "I will live up to the people's love and let everyone live a good life!" "Say, immediately drove across the bridge, led the troops to the east.

4. Sigh at the sea

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a river god in the Yellow River. People call him Hebo. Hebo stood on the bank of the Yellow River. Looking at the rolling waves coming from the west and rushing eastward, I said excitedly; "The Yellow River is so big that no river in the world can compare with it. I am the biggest water god! "

Someone told him, "What you said is wrong. There is a place called Beihai in the east of the Yellow River. That's really big. " Herb said, "I don't believe it. No matter how big the North Sea is, can it be bigger than the Yellow River? " The man said: "Don't mention a Yellow River, even if several Yellow Rivers flow into the North Sea, they are not satisfied." Hebo stubbornly said, "I have never seen the North Sea. I don't believe it. "

The man was helpless and said to him, "You will understand what I am talking about when you have a chance to see the North Sea." Hebo came down the river to the Yellow River estuary, and suddenly his eyes lit up. Poseidon welcomed him with a big smile. Hebo looked around and saw Wang Yang in the North Sea, as far as the eye could see.

He watched it for a while and said to Beihai Ruo with deep feelings: "As the saying goes, if you only know some truth, you think no one can compare with yourself. This is me. Today, if I hadn't seen the vast North Sea with my own eyes, I would have thought the Yellow River was chinese odyssey! In that case, you will never be laughed at by knowledgeable people. "

5, the three countries do not enter the government.

Dayu has been to that house three times in order to control water, but he is afraid to enter. When I passed the house for the first time, I heard his wife groan because of childbirth and the cry of the baby arrival. The assistant suggested that he go in and have a look. He didn't go in for fear of delaying water control.

When he passed the house for the second time, his son waved to him in his wife's arms. This is a tense time for the project. He just waved, said hello and went over.

When I passed the house for the third time, my son was over 10, so I ran to pull him home. Dayu fondled his son's head lovingly and told him that he left in a hurry without going home before the water was cured. Dayu didn't go home for three times, and was called a beautiful talk, which is still praised by people today.