The Yellow River is the pride of the Chinese nation, and the water of the Yellow River has nurtured the descendants of the Chinese nation for generations, but sometimes its raging and flooding have also brought disasters to the common people.
Legend has it that during Yao's reign, there was a great flood in the Yellow River Valley. Crops, the land was submerged, and the houses and property of the people were washed away. In many places, poisonous snakes and beasts often haunt, causing the people to suffer unspeakable.
In order to deal with the raging flood, Yao convened a meeting of tribal alliances and decided to send the tribal leader Cang, who lived in Chongdi, to control the water.
Because of the continuous rainfall of the Yellow River at that time, it took nine years for the flood to subdue the hustle and bustle at that time under the jurisdiction of heaven and earth, because the task of controlling water was urgent, and it was too much to steal the soil without getting the order of heaven and earth, and this practice of blocking the flood carp angered the Heavenly Emperor, and the Heavenly Emperor sent the fire god with the face of the beast, Zhu Rong, to kill the carp, and deliberately after his death, the waters of the Yellow River flooded into a disaster.
The body of the carp did not decay for a long time, so the people peeled off his stomach, and a little boy jumped out of it, this little boy was Dayu, who grew into an adult and was named the heir of the tribal leader Yao, and Shun ordered Dayu to take over his father's post and continue to control the flood.
The method of water control in those years was to build a dam with earth and stone, and as a result, the flood washed away the embankment, but it became more fierce, dayu learned from his father's lessons, changed the method of water control, he led the people to dig canals to drain water, dredge the river channel, and lead the river to the sea. At that time, it was sparsely populated, and everywhere Dayu went was either a river or a barren mountain, and Dayu could only open the way while advancing. With a tenacious will, he trekked through mountains and waters, constantly surveying, surveying, planning, so that this magnificent project progressed day by day.
