Yu was the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, with the surname Ji (姒) and the name Wen Ming (文命). Yu's father was called Cang, Cang's father was called Huang Yi, and Chang Yi's father was called Chang Yi, and Chang Yi's father was the Yellow Emperor. From the Yellow Emperor to the Yu, there were five dynasties: the Yellow Emperor was the Youxiong clan, the Emperor Was the Gaoyang clan, the Emperor Zhao was the Gao Xin clan, the Di Yao was the Tao Tang clan, the Di Shun was the Youyu clan, and the Di Yu was the Xia Hou clan.
Yu's father, Cang, was enfeoffed in the Shiniu region of Wenshan (present-day Beichuan County, Sichuan Province) and married a daughter of the Xin clan, named Nüzhi (女志), also known as Nüyi (女嗜). One evening, the woman went to the river to carry water, and she saw the babbling water and the colorful sky, and she was very happy. While playing with his companions, he picked up a wild fruit, as beautiful and lovely as a bead, and held it in his mouth. Unexpectedly, the fruit was smooth as an egg, and if she accidentally swallowed it into her abdomen, the woman was pregnant. Pregnant for 14 months, but could not give birth, had to give birth by caesarean section, this is Yu.
Statue of King Xia Yu
At an early age, Yu moved east with the carp and came to the Central Plains. His father, Cang, was enfeoffed by Emperor Yao in Chongzong (i.e., Zhongyue Songshan), called Chongbo, and was actually a feudal monarch. At that time, there was a flood in the Central Plains, and Yao ordered Cang to control the water, and Cang used the "water barrier method" to smelt it, which lasted for nine years and failed to calm the flood. In the process of water smelting, the status and power of the carp rise rapidly. Yao saw this threat and ordered Shun to execute Himon and Yushan on the charge of "treating the water without a cure".
The tribal chiefs recommended Yu, the son of Cang, to lead the people in controlling the flood. Yu summed up the lessons of his father's failure to control water, changed to diversion, and took advantage of the natural trend of water flowing to the lower places to dredge the Nine Rivers. Yu personally led Lao Bai surname Feng to eat and sleep, soaking in muddy water all day to dredge the river channel, and direct the stagnant water from the flat land into the rivers and then into the ocean. After decades of treatment, it has finally achieved success and eliminated flooding.
King Yu ruled the water
People were very grateful and loved Dai Yu, especially in the more than ten years of water control, he had visited his hometown three times, and the people who treated the water with him urged him to go home and see, but he just looked at his home and led the people to control the flood. The deeds of Yu San passing through the door of the house and not entering the house spread all over the place, and people were deeply moved to hear it, and their confidence in controlling water was enhanced. In order to express their gratitude to Yu, people honored him as "Dayu", that is, the great Yu.
Although Yu was only a fief, he was very favored by Shun. Whenever Shun publicly praised his merits, he always said that Shun had a good leader, a good command, and a good fortune planner, and it was shun's virtue, benevolence, and demeanor that touched the people, and the people supported Shun. Or that Shunhui was discerning, good at using people, and credited the credit to the accounts of several other ministers. Shun then felt more and more that Yu Ren was thick and reliable. Later, he simply let Ge Chang directly replace himself as regent, entrusted all the important affairs of the state to Yu, and let Yu manage the state affairs for him for 16 years.
Da Yu Zhi Water Statue
After 16 years of observation, Shun felt that Yu could be his successor, so he said in front of Zhongwei's ministers that he would cede the imperial throne to Dayu. Yu resigned several times and tried his best to promote Shun's son Shang Jun to the throne. Soon after, Shun suddenly fell ill and died. In order to avoid conflict with Shun's son Shang Jun, Yu took refuge in a small city of Yiyang in Xiadi, where he hid for three years. For three years, the princes of the world did not go to see Shangjun, but went to see Dayu. The great subordinate saw his prestige and strength, so in the third year after Shun's death, he returned to his hometown, south of the world, waiting for the throne of the Son of Heaven, and used his own wind garden "Xia" as the name of the world, announcing the official establishment of the Xia Dynasty.
Dazhi is a great historical figure who has made great contributions to the historical development of the Chinese nation. His great achievements are not only in the control of floods, the development of production, the people living and working in peace and contentment, but more importantly, the end of the social organization form of the original Chinese social tribal alliance, and the creation of a new type of social and political form of "state". Yu completed the establishment of the state, replaced the primitive society with a class society, replaced the barbaric era with the civilized era, and promoted the development of history.