What happened when Dayu was harnessing the water? A story, a detailed story.

Tribal leaders took advantage of their position, took the remaining products as their private property and turned them into nobles of the clan. With the surplus products, wars broke out between tribes, captured prisoners, stopped killing, turned them into slaves and served the nobles. In this way, the two classes of slaves and slave owners gradually formed, and the clan commune began to collapse. Because of Yu's achievements in water control, the prestige and power of tribal alliance leaders have been improved. It is said that when he was old, he traveled eastward and gathered many tribal leaders in Huiji Mountain (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). People who went to see Yu all held jade in their hands, and the ceremony was very grand. A tribal leader named Fang Feng didn't attend the meeting. I thought I wouldn't do it, so I beheaded Fang Feng. It can be seen that Yu at that time had changed from the leader of the tribal alliance to a veritable king. Yu once had an assistant named, who helped Yu manage politics. After his death, his son Boyi also worked as Yu's assistant. According to the abdication system, Boyi should have been the heir of Yu. However, after Yu's death, Yu's Xia tribe nobles all supported Yu's son Qi to inherit Yu's position. Therefore, the clan commune.

Merit lasts forever.

China is full of relics and rumors about Dayu. There are Yu ruins and Yu Palace in Huaiyuan County, Anhui Province. There is Yumen in Hancheng County, Shaanxi Province; There is Yumenkou in Hejin County, Shanxi Province; There is a site of Wang Yucheng at the foot of Zhongtiao Mountain in Xia County, Shanxi Province. There is Yuwangtai in the suburb of Kaifeng, Henan; Yuxian has Yu Wang Suojiao Well; There is a collection of Yugong at the eastern end of Guishan Mountain in Wuhan, Hubei Province; There is a stone tablet of Wang Yu on the top of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha, Hunan. Even in Nanjiang County, southwest Sichuan Province, there is a Yu Palace. In Luoyang, Henan Province, there is a legend that Dayu dug Longmen. These Dayu sites all over China are engraved with Dayu's great achievements and people's thoughts. Dayu was one of the most respected great men in ancient China. At present, there are several well-preserved sites of Yu Hui Village, also known as Yu Hui Site, 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 discovered 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 ruins of congressional governors, but also the ruins of Tushan stone where female leaders got married, as well as many relics such as Yu Palace, Stone, Taisang, Fangfeng Tomb and Yu Site. De, Liu Zongyuan, Wu, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Song Lian, Deng, etc. Everyone came here to pay their respects and left many poems and inscriptions. According to textual research, Dayu's flood control area at that time was about east Hebei, east Henan, west Shandong, south Shandong and north of Huaihe River. Once, they came to the southern suburbs of Luoyang, Henan. There is a high mountain here, which belongs to the remnant vein of Qinling Mountain. It's like an east-west natural barrier. There is a natural gap in the middle of the mountain, and a trickle flows slowly through the gap. However, when the flood broke out, the river was blocked by the mountain, forming a vortex at the gap, and the rushing river endangered the safety of the surrounding people. Dayu decided to concentrate on water control and clear the way in the mountains. Hard work damaged stone tools, wood and bones. People's losses are even greater. Some people fell dead while climbing mountains, and some people were washed away by the flood. However, they did not waver and insisted on splitting the mountain. In this hard day and night, Dayu's face is tanned and he is tired and thin. Even the hair on his calf has been polished, and his toenails have fallen out because he has been soaked in water for a long time, but he is still operating and commanding. Under his leadership, the water control has made rapid progress, and the mountain has finally been suddenly enlightened. Down the river, the river is unimpeded. Dayu was chosen as Shun's assistant because of his meritorious service in water control. Seventeen years later, after Shun's death, he succeeded to the throne as the leader of the tribal alliance. Later, Qi, the son of Dayu, established the first slave country in China-Xia Dynasty. Therefore, later generations also called him Yu Xia. After Yu Xia's death, he was buried in Maoshan. He was a vassal and was rewarded with merits. Therefore, Maoshan was renamed Huiji Mountain. This is the origin of Dayu tomb in Shaoxing. Today, the jade spirit bear will meet the mountain, the pavilion mountain and the fish pond. 1979, rebuild a tombstone of Dayu, which has cornices and corners and stands at the end of the tunnel. There is a huge monument to the "Tomb of Dayu", inscribed by Amin Nandaji. The pavilion is surrounded by ancient trees and bamboo, which is quiet and elegant. It is the place where the predecessors found the tomb of Yu. Dayu's benefit to the people has always been praised by Chinese descendants, and his fighting spirit has always been remembered by Chinese descendants. When people come to Shaoxing, they will never forget to visit Dayu's tomb in the southeast of the city. The traditional saying is: Shun ordered guns to control water, only irrigation, and was killed by Shun after his failure.

Huai yi flood control

The myth of Dayu's water control has been passed down from generation to generation in many parts of the country. Yu's footprints are not only all over the country, but also many famous mountains and rivers are said to have been ruled by Yu. Among them, the legend about Dayu and his father Kun's flood control in the Huang-Huai Pan-area in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu also left a colorful page in the cultural history of China. "Heaven and earth are mysterious, and the universe is wild." The wild age is the primitive age. There is no written record of the living conditions of our ancestors at that time. Later generations often understand it through imagination, legends and myths. In modern times, due to the development of early historiography, archaeology, anthropology and geology, we have a general understanding of the situation in the flood era. It is said that about 4600 years ago, in the Yao and Shun period of Xia Dynasty, it was in the late glacial period, the climate was getting warmer and the ice and snow melted. Mountains and rivers have become Zeguo, and everything in the world is the same as Chen Bo, human beings and Deng Ling Tu Shan. It survived. The ancient Yellow River diverted from Subei Plain to the sea, and the Huai and Si basins were flooded. "The soup was cut off by the flood, and Hu Aishan Xiangling was swaying, which was huge" (Yaodian, Shangshu). Coupled with sea level rise, seawater intrusion and Huaihe River siltation, Taishan Mountain in the west, Yimeng in the south and Subei in the south have become a great Zeguo. When the flood swept the world, people were displaced. Many isolated islands were formed. Gun is the leader of Yao and Shun in water control. He was exiled to Dongyi, responsible for transforming and assimilating Dongyi nationality, so that it could quickly catch up with the progressive Huangdi nationality. Gun is the father of Yu, the legendary son of Zhuan Xu. His surname is Si, and he was founded in Chongchong (now the north of Song County, Henan Province). Gun is called "worshipping Bo" in history. Drowning many people's lives, and casting the bronze vessels in the temple into water control tools without authorization, was a heinous crime and was killed by Shun Di in the wild of Yushan. Justice leads to broadness, and Yushan is in Linyi County, Yizhou. Gong Yu's Notes: "Yushan is seventy miles in Tancheng County". The evaluation of rice has always been inconsistent. It is reported that guns are often highly praised. Shan Hai Jing said that he once stole land from the Emperor of Heaven to stop the flood, and he became a hero who saved the people from fire and water regardless of his personal safety. It is generally believed that Gang went through hardships in Ganxin for the benefit of the people until he gave his life. Although he failed to succeed in water control, his dedication is particularly commendable. He is fighting against water control. Inexperience makes twists and turns inevitable. His failure and tragedy pointed out the direction for his successors. Zuo Zhuan said, "The gun turned into a yellow bear and entered the Yuyuan Garden, with a feather mountain in the east. There are many fine willows in the pool, and the wild animals dare not practice. " According to Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Jing, after Gun died, his son Yu was born from his belly. Historical Records describes the great achievements of more than ten years with extremely pious feelings: he gave up his family for his country, forgot his job, left home for his post only four days after his marriage, and his son born in Lian Gang was too busy to take care of him. In order to fully understand the water situation and topography, he traveled all over Kyushu, surveyed the mountain situation, dredged nine rivers and repaired nine great lakes. Not only to control floods, but also to inspect local products in Kyushu, stipulate local taxes, and open up convenient ways to pay taxes in various places. On this basis, he demarcated the boundary of five clothes, and achieved a good situation of unity and stability in which all parties live in heaven. Dayu won the hearts of the people, which gave him a political advantage and became Yao's heir. Dayu became an heir after harnessing the water. On the land of "the rule of Huai Yi, the art of worrying about dreams" (Historical Records Xia Benji), where Huaihe River and Yishui flow, and between Mengshan Mountain and Yushan Mountain, this place has been silted for decades. After Dayu's management, the silted flood "valley" was introduced into the sea, and some sections of the ancient Huanghuai floodplain were cleared out, and many fertile fields and mulberry soil were cultivated, which made people live and work in peace. It has become a lake conducive to the survival of ancestors. Later, it was divided into administrative regions, namely, Kyushu Island such as Qing, Yan, Xu, Yang, Liang, Yu, Ji, Jing and Yong. Yu made great contributions to water control, and Shun became the leader of the tribal alliance. His descendants Yi flourished in today's southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu, engaged in farming, sericulture, smelting, pottery making, fishing and hunting.

The Legend of Ningyang in Dayu's Water Control

Ningyang County is located in the middle of Shandong Province, with Taidai in the north and Qufu in the south. The Dawenhe River, lamented by Confucius as "the deceased is like a husband", runs through the county, and there are dozens of tributaries of the Wenhe River criss-crossing. Wang Yu Temple in Ningyang County, Shandong Province

For thousands of years, the legend of Dayu's water control has been circulating in Ningyang and its surrounding areas for a long time, and it is a household name. People still sing many stories, poems and ballads about Dayu's water control. Legend of Yuwangtai, Legend of Chopsticks, Legend of Establishing Yuwangmiao, Legend of Zhu Hong in Yubei, Legend of Water Demon Temple in Weizhen, Legend of Dayu Family, Legend of Dayu's Couple Tree, Legend of Enlightening Wisdom and Letting Go, etc., some of which have been compiled into books such as Ningyang County Records and Ningyang Folk Literature Integration. Now, many ancient cultural relics contemporary with Dayu's water control have been found in Ningyang and its surrounding areas, which further confirms the scope of Dayu's water control activities, especially the bronze ritual vessel "Sui Gongzhong" purchased by Beijing Poly Art Museum in Hong Kong in 2002, which proves that the ancient legend of Dayu's water control was as early as 2,000 years ago. Today, it is widely circulated along Ningyang and Dawen River and deeply rooted in people's hearts. The legend of Dayu's water control is rich in content, easy to catchy and influential. He is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the working people in this area. He praised justice and beauty, industriousness and kindness, advocated fairness and decency, made people unite and care for each other harmoniously, and had a strong ideological and literary nature and obvious educational function. Ningyang and its surrounding areas have formed a simple and harmonious folk custom. The legend of Dayu's water control has been circulating in Ningyang and its surrounding areas for more than 3,000 years. There are many records about Dayu and his flood control in Ningyang, which first appeared in the inscriptions of the Sui Dynasty in the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and later appeared in The Book of Songs, Elegance and Historical Records, Gong Yu. Ningyang County Records (A.D. 10) Tieniu Zhenhai was listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Ningyang in the Ming Dynasty in the Ningyang County Records compiled in the thirty-fourth year of Wanli, and it was a legendary mountain scene that Dayu left for Zhenhai during the flood control. In order to commemorate Dayu's achievements in water control, Wang Yu Temple, a provincial cultural relic protection unit with an ominous age of 25 mu, was built on the south bank of Dawen River. There are eleven thousand-year-old cypress trees in the temple, one of which is said to be the incarnation of Dayu.

In 2002, Beijing Poly Art Museum bought the bronze ritual vessel "Sui Gongzhong" in Hong Kong in the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The first half of the inscription mainly tells the story of Dayu's water control. According to textual research, Sui Gongzhong was a bronze ritual vessel cast by a monarch in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Suizhou is located in the northwest of Ningyang County, Shandong Province. The capital is located in the present Baimamiao Village, and there is a mountain to the west. It's still called Suishan. This proves that as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago, the ancient legend of Dayu's water control was widely circulated in Ningyang and Dawen River. With Wang Yu Temple as the core, archaeologists have discovered more than 65,438+00 ancient sites within 20km of Fiona Fang. Yunshandian site, Daguanzhuang site, Huangjiaan site, Shenxigao site. The most important site is Dawenkou (Baotou type) site, 20 kilometers away from Wang Yu Temple. Many sites are in the same period as Dayu in history. In its cultural layer, there are a lot of traces of siltation and floods, and floods did occur in Dayu's historical period. "Shan Hai Jing" and "Nan Jing" record: "In the wild" in the rain. There is a Yunshan nearly 100 feet high 8 kilometers northwest of Ningyang. It is widely rumored by people at the foot of the mountain that this mountain was formed by the accumulation of stones from the Shu (Fu) Mountain Lake. In the first year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (185 1), the book Biography of Shan Zhi in Ningyang County records: "There is a hole in the top, and the clouds need rain. It is said that it is dangerous to attack sex. Eight sights "true cow, pale, hornless, thundering, smelling 50 thousand miles, stopping the eye of the sea and eliminating the flood." Ningyangming's first county annals in the 14th year of Wanli listed it as one of the eight scenic spots in Ningyang, "Tieniu Zhenhai Scenic Spot". In the gate of Wang Yu Temple, two huge cypress trees stand side by side, with straight trunk and vigorous spirit, and the branches of the crown are spiral and extend obliquely to the southeast. The one in the west is slightly lower than cypress, and its crown looks like a lady's. Interestingly, this cypress tree is eastward and tends to cuddle with her husband. It is said that in those days, Dayu managed Wenshui and broke down from overwork. In memory of Dayu, people buried him in this place in Wang Yu Temple. Soon, a cypress tree grew in the place where Dayu was buried to show that he was guarding Wenshui after his death. I turned into a phoenix to find him, and happened to land on the cypress branch that was the incarnation of Dayu. When I learned that the husband I missed day and night was not alive, my heart was very sad and I cried to death. I planted it under a tree and left this world. People buried the phoenix in the west of the tree. A few days later, a new cypress tree grew where I buried it. People have been talking about: Dayu and his wife can't be reunited alive, and after death.