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& ltbr & gt According to legend, the Yellow River Basin in China suffered a series of disastrous floods in the Yao and Shun era more than 4,000 years ago. "The soup was cut by the flood, and Hu Aishan Xiangling was swaying, majestic and strange." The flood flooded the plains and surrounded the hills and hills. A large number of people and animals died, and houses and savings were also swallowed up by floods. After years of floods, the victims helped the old and took care of the young and drifted around. The whole country was plunged into an unprecedented disaster.

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& ltbr & gt Tang Yao hosted a tribal alliance meeting to study the flood problem. At that time, the deliberation meeting of the tribal alliance was mainly composed of "four mountains", that is, four tribal leaders. They unanimously elected Gun, the leader of Xia nationality who has a tradition of water conservancy, to take charge of water conservancy. The gun uses the method of "blocking obstacles" to build dams to contain floods. But the flood is so great that the dams built are often washed away by the flood. Gun spent countless manpower and material resources in nine years and failed to stop the flood. Shun, Yao's assistant, traveled around the world and found that Gun's water control was ineffective, so he exiled Gun to Yushan (now near Tancheng, Shandong Province) and put him to death.

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& ltbr & gt After the death of Tang Yao, Yu Shun succeeded to the throne and became the leader of the tribal alliance. On the recommendation of the Parliament of the Tribal Alliance, Yu, the son of Gun, was sent to continue water control. Yu joined forces with Boyi, Hou Ji and many other tribes to continue the large-scale flood fighting. He learned the painful lesson of his father's failure in water control, changed the method of simply building dikes to stop water, and adopted the strategy of dredging. "Huai Nan Zi Yuan Dao Xun" records: "Yu definitely blasphemes because of water." It is said that he took water as a teacher, was good at summarizing the laws of water movement, and used the natural flowing potential of water downward to control floods according to the situation. In order to master the topography of the downstream area, Dayu "left and right" and "set mountains and rivers" and took surveying tools to survey the terrain and measure the water potential everywhere. On this basis, he led the masses to "dredge the river and guide the stagnation", dredge the river according to the terrain, and eliminate stagnant water, so that floods and waterlogging can return to the river and flow into the sea. After 10 years of efforts, the flood was finally subdued. "Water comes from the ground, and then people will live on the ground." As a result, people came down from the highlands and returned to the plains. Then, Yu led the people to dig ditches, divert water for irrigation, develop agriculture, turn floods into water conservancy, and cultivated many fertile fields and mulberry fields on the plains on both sides of the Yellow River, which became a place for people to live and work in peace and contentment. The Book of Songs praised Yu's achievements and said, "Liangshan is in full swing, and Weiyudian is there." It says that he managed the flood and turned Liangshan's wilderness into fertile land.

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& ltbr & gt Dayu is not only smart and capable, but what is more commendable is that he is full of sacrifice, diligent and hardworking, and works hard for the interests of the world. Water conservancy work is hard and busy. On the fourth day after he married Tu Shanshi, he left home to take part in water conservancy. As a tribal leader, he "holds the thunder and puts the people first" and personally directs and leads everyone's work. His face turned black because of the wind, sun and rain. Because I often go barefoot in the water, the hair on my legs is polished. In this way, he worked hard outside 13 years, "three don't enter the house" and devoted himself to water conservancy.

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& ltbr & gt Dayu pays great attention to concentrating the wisdom and strength of the masses. Facing the crisis of life and death, Qi Xin, a new clan and a tribe, worked together to ensure the success of water control. Dayu led the people to level the soil and water, develop production and won the support of the people. People elected the hero of water control as political leader. After Yu Shun's death, Yu Shun inherited the throne and became the leader of the tribal alliance. (At that time, the leaders of tribal alliances were democratically elected by the leaders of various clans and tribes. This recommendation system was called "abdication". So the last tribal alliance leader democratically elected at the end of primitive society. In the process of water control, Dayu naturally possessed supreme power and prestige, and formed a strong leadership over tribal alliances. He "cast Jiuding" and "set Kyushu" and strengthened the management of various clans and tribes according to administrative divisions. And make "characters in their proper places" and divide the ruling class and the ruled class. The primitive democratic system was gradually broken. Later, Dayu was transferred to his son Kai, and the Xia Dynasty, the first slave country in China, was established. Dayu's flood control became the beginning of China's ancient national history. Therefore, governing the country and controlling water has always been inseparable in the history of our country.

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& ltbr & gt The legend of Dayu's water control embodies the national spirit that Chinese people are fearless and can conquer nature. In the world, myths and legends of ancient floods are circulating in many countries. It is said that there was an irresistible flood in ancient times, which almost wiped out this nation. Finally, relying on God's will and adopting the method of escape, very few people survived and thrived. It is only in the myth of the Chinese nation that the flood is controlled by Dayu. This is a great symbol of the national spirit, which will always inspire the people of China to make unremitting efforts to fight against floods and droughts.

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& ltbr & gt Dayu's achievements in water control are praised and missed by later generations. During the Warring States Period, some people said, "Wei Yu, I am a fish!" Said if it weren't for Yu, we would be fish and shrimp by now. According to experts' research, Dayu's water control areas are in eastern Hebei, eastern Henan, western Shandong, southern Shandong and Huaibei in Jiangsu and Anhui. Later, the legend of Dayu's water control was widely circulated. In the word of mouth of later generations, people linked all kinds of important water conservancy activities with Dayu. People even suspect that some miracles created by natural forces are magical, and attach them to Dayu, adding a bit of myth. Legend has it that he not only managed rivers in Hebei, Yanzhou, Qingdao, Xu, Yang, Jing, Yu, Liang and Yong Jiuzhou, but also directed rivers and Minshan, Huaihe and Tongbai rivers, rivers and accumulated stones, chiseled Longmen, carved Yi Que and erected stone pillars. It is also said that he was buried in Huiji Mountain in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province after his death, which is today's Dayu Tomb.

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