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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Yu_the_GreatYu the Great - Wikipedia

    Yu the Great or Yu the Engineer was a legendary king in ancient China who was credited with "the first successful state efforts at flood control", [1] his establishment of the Xia dynasty, which inaugurated dynastic rule in China, and for his upright moral character.

  2. Feb 27, 2024 · Yu the Great is an ancient hero in prehistoric times, whose most remarkable accomplishment was taming the water. He was also an excellent political leader and established the Xia Dynasty (21st - 17th century BC), the first dynasty in Chinese history that followed the hereditary system.

  3. Nov 6, 2023 · Also known as Da Yu, Yu the Great founded the Xia dynasty, the China’s oldest dynasty around 2070 to 1600 BCE. In Chinese mythology, he’s known as the Tamer of the Flood who became famous by controlling the waters that covered the territories of the empire.

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  5. Da Yu, in Chinese mythology, the Tamer of the Flood, a saviour-hero and reputed founder of China’s oldest dynasty, the Xia. One legend among many recounts Da Yu’s extraordinary birth: a man called Gun was given charge of controlling a great deluge. To dam the water, he stole from heaven what seems.

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  6. Aug 24, 2020 · Like the Xia Dynasty he founded, Yu the Great ( 大禹 dà yǔ) — he who “Controls the Waters” — is a figure shackled to unprovable myth. But with his system of dredging, dikes, and divisions, his story looms down the millennia.

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    Yu the Great or Yu the Engineer was a legendary king in ancient China who was famed for "the first successful state efforts at flood control," his establishment of the Xia dynasty which inaugurated dynastic rule in China, and his upright moral character.

  8. Jan 10, 2016 · Yu the Great. Yu learned from his father's mistakes: Gun had tried to do too much by himself, had underestimated his need for help, and had overestimated his own abilities. He had also acted without respect for the forces of nature and had worked against the water instead of working with it.

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