In ancient times, there was a great flood, which spread all over the world and almost interrupted human civilization. Westerners believe that God saved them, so there is a legend of Noah's Ark. Chinese believe that the ancestors successfully controlled the water and allowed the civilization to continue, so there is a historical record of the Great Yu Zhi Water.
Legend has it that during the reign of Emperor Yao, floods fell from the sky, the Yellow River flooded, floods ran rampant, and the people suffered heavy casualties. This flood lasted a long time, and if the flood was not completely cured, then the ethnic group was in danger of extinction, and the civilization was in danger of being interrupted. Emperor Yao ordered the water expert Cang to be responsible for controlling the water, and Cang used the method of blocking the water to control the water, which was ineffective for nine years, and also injured the people's wealth, and was eventually exiled by Emperor Shun to Yushan and died.
Emperor Shun ordered His son Yu Lai to rule the water, and Yu did not hesitate to say goodbye to his newlywed wife and embarked on the road of water control. Yu gathered all the ministries of Huaxia, with the help of talents such as Boyi, Houji, and Ziqi, and adopted the method of channeling to control the water, which lasted thirteen years and was successful. Yu went deep into the people, ate with the people, lived together, worked together to guide the flood, so he was deeply loved by the people of the world.
After the success of the water control, Emperor Shun rewarded the merits and deeds, ceded the imperial throne to Yu, and let Yu lead the princes to govern the world. Yu ruled the country with all his might, calmed down external troubles, soothed internal worries, and became famous, so the world called Yu Dayu. Before Dayu's death, he passed the throne to Boyi, but Boyi was powerless to restrain the princes, and eventually Boyi ceded the throne to Dayu's son Ji Qi. Ji Qi established the Xia Dynasty, which was the beginning of the family world, and the Zen system officially withdrew from the stage of history.
Ziqi assisted Dayu in ruling the water and was enfeoffed by Emperor Shun in Shangyi, so the Ziqi clan established the Shang state under the name of Shang. After the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, the Shang State submitted to the Xia Dynasty and was one of the Fang States of the Xia Dynasty. The last lord of the Xia Dynasty, Jie Jie, was very brutal, and his rule was unpopular, and Shang Tang, a descendant of Ziqi, rebelled against Xia, and finally defeated the main army of the Xia Dynasty, entered the Central Plains, and established the Shang Dynasty.
Hou Ji's agricultural skills were very clever, and he assisted Dayu in the aftermath when Dayu was controlling the water. After the flood receded, Hou Ji led the people to develop agriculture and solved the problem of feeding the people. Emperor Yao appointed Hou Ji as a farmer and taught the people to farm. Emperor Shun gave Hou Ji the surname of Ji Ji and sealed it in Tai Di. The King of Shang had no way, and Hou Ji's descendants, King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou, rebelled against the Shang and eventually established the Zhou Dynasty.
Boyi assisted Dayu in controlling water, and was the second leading figure in water control, and was deeply trusted and valued by Dayu. Emperor Shun gave Bo Yiyi the surname of Bo Yiyi and appointed him as an official, in charge of the mountains and breeding birds and beasts. Before Dayu collapsed, Boyi was appointed son of heaven, but Boyi gave way to Dayu's son. After the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, Bo Yi was made a secretary of state, and his status was only below that of Xia Qi. Bo Yi's eldest son was enfeoffed in the State of Huang, the second son was enfeoffed in the State of Xu, and his descendants Fei Zi established the State of Qin, which was officially called the Kingdom when King Huiwen of Qin was king, and qin emperor established the Qin Empire after unifying the world.