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In May 1996, the Xia Shang Zhou Dynasty Project was officially launched. 9 disciplines, 12 majors, more than 200 experts and scholars, after 4 years of hard work, finally formulated the "Xia Shang Anniversary Table". Its value is comparable to Sima Qian's "Records of History". Dearly, due to the lack of physical materials and the vagueness or loopholes in the historical records, Western historians have always been distrustful of our history of China's Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties. According to them, the true history of faith in China began in 841 BC, that is, the republican rule. Because this is the beginning of a definite chronology in Chinese history.
However, the "Xia Shang Annual Table" uses detailed evidence that as early as 2070 BC, there was a unified state in the land of China, the Xia Dynasty, and its founding monarch was the Great Yu who made meritorious contributions to the management of water. But folks, is this really the whole truth? No, in the Analects, there is also a reference to an era called Tang Yu, saying that the society at that time was very prosperous and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. The "Records of History" is more specific, saying that Tang Yu was founded by Chongli. Its way of ruling and many political systems continued until the Xia and Shang dynasties. So guys, what evidence can prove Tang Yu's authenticity?
First of all, Tang Yu is mentioned in detail in the Lü Shi Chunqiu, saying that his founding monarch was named Tang Yao (this contradicts Sima Qian's account). He once fought against Nan man on the bank of danshui, achieved great success, and sent Dayi to reclaim the wasteland and eliminate harm for the people, thus gaining the support of the people. Secondly, Tang Yu is also mentioned in the Huainanzi. But according to it, Tang Yao established the Tang Dynasty. Later he ceded the throne to Shun, who ended the Tang Dynasty and established the Yu Dynasty. In addition, there is a third piece of evidence, that is, in 1886, the governor of Puzhou, Yingdu Songnian, wrote the "Continuation of the Chronicle of Yongji County", which mentions that the Pusaka area was the capital of the Yu Dynasty, and there were 15 Emperor Yu.
The last piece of evidence comes from the Han Feizi, which mentions that the Yu Dynasty and the Xia Dynasty, combined, totaled more than two thousand years. According to the Xia-Shang-Zhou Dynasty Project, the Xia Dynasty coexisted for 471 years. In this way, the Yu Dynasty existed for at least 1600 years! So since there are so many records about the Yu Dynasty in the history books, why don't we Chinese believe in its existence? First of all, from the above evidence, you cannot see that although various historical sources mention the Yu Dynasty, they are full of contradictions (in terms of their founding monarchs, there are several kinds), which is really unconvincing. Secondly, judging from the situation of the Yanshi Erlitou site in Henan, the Xia Dynasty can only be said to have the prototype of a country at best.
Some foreign scholars even believe that the Xia Dynasty was just a tribal alliance, and Dayu was not a monarch like Qin Shi Huang, but just the leader of a loose tribal alliance! According to this logic, was the Yu Dynasty before Xia even more unlike a country? Perhaps, the so-called Yu Dynasty was just a relatively powerful tribe at that time! Third, it has been proved that in ancient times, there was indeed a tribe called you Yu, and will this tribe be misunderstood and interpreted into a state by later generations? Such a thing has not happened in history! Finally, we know that Confucius, in order to prove the correctness of Confucianism, added and deleted the Spring and Autumn Period, and tampered with or even deleted many historical materials before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States.
The Yu Dynasty was proposed by the Confucians in the Spring and Autumn Period. Could they have fabricated such a dynasty in order to prove their ideas? Didn't Hu Shi say that the Xia Dynasty may have been a dynasty forged by the people of Western Zhou, and its purpose was to prove the justice of king Wu. Finally, there are so many dynasties in China's history, which one can last for more than 1600 years? This is obviously mythological! No wonder even we Chinese ourselves and do not recognize the existence of the Yu Dynasty!