Dayu's water control is an ancient myth. The background of the story is that in ancient times, Zhu Rong, the god of fire, was at war with the god of water. In the end, Gong Gong was defeated by Zhu Rong, and his anger failed to reach Zhoushan, which led to the collapse of the sky and the flooding. In the end, we had to ask Nu Wa Niangniang to clean up this mess and fill the hole in the sky, but the flood among the people became a legacy.
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.
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Dayu Water Control Site: Yu Hui Village Site, also known as Yu Hui Site, is located on the east bank of Huaihe River at the southern foot of Tushan Mountain in the western suburb of Bengbu City, Anhui Province. According to the field investigation by the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, it is the largest Longshan cultural site found in the Huaihe River Basin, with a total area of 500,000 square meters. Dayu lived in Longshan culture period.
There are not only the remains of congressional governors, but also the remains of earth rocks. There are many relics in the place where a female leader got married, such as Yu Palace, Qimushi (stone), Taisang (the place where Qi was born), Fangfeng Tomb and Yu Site. The Yu Palace on the mountain has a history of thousands of years. Scholars in previous dynasties were such as Di, Liu Zongyuan, Wu, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Song Lian and Deng.
Enlightenment of Dayu's water control: Dayu has been in the government for thirteen years, during which he went to the government three times, but never entered. The dedication of letting everyone sacrifice their small family has been integrated into the national spirit and has been given a deeper meaning after the changes of the times. When Dayu passed by the door for the third time, his son was already a ten-year-old child, waiting for his father at the door. Dayu stroked his son's forehead and told him that the people could not live and work in peace and contentment, let alone have a family reunion, and then left. It can be seen that its perseverance in water control and its sense of responsibility to worry about the world first.