Anyi (now Xia County, Shanxi).

Yu was the first emperor of the Xia Dynasty, so later generations also called him Xia Yu. He is a sage emperor who is as famous as Yao and Shun in ancient Chinese legends. His most outstanding achievements have always been praised for controlling monstrous floods and demarcating the territory of China as Kyushu. Later generations called him Dayu. After Yu's death, he was buried on Kuaiji Mountain, where there are still Yu temples, Yu mausoleums and Yu ancestral halls. Starting from Xia Qi, most emperors of all dynasties came to Yuling to worship him.

Xia Yu is a great historical figure who made great contributions to the historical development of the Chinese nation. His major achievements were not only in controlling floods, developing national production, and enabling the people to live and work in peace and contentment, but more importantly, in ending the social organizational form of tribal alliances in China's primitive society and creating a new social and political form of the "state."

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Anecdotes and allusions

1. Passed through the house three times without entering

It is said that Yu and Tushan's daughter Jiao Not long after his marriage, he left his wife and embarked on the road of flood control. Later, when he passed by his home, he heard his wife giving birth and the sound of his son falling to the ground. But when he thought of the urgency of building a mountain to divert water, he did not bother to go home and went to the front line of water control again.

When he passed his hometown for the third time, his son Qizheng was held in his mother's arms. He already knew how to call daddy and waved his little hands to say hello to Yu. Yu just waved to his wife and children to show that he was watching. When it came to them, they still didn't stop.

2. Casting Jiuding

After the Tushan Conference, in order to show respect, princes from all over the world often came to Yangcheng to donate gold (i.e. bronze). Later, the copper tribute from Jiuzhou increased year by year. Dayu remembered that the Xuanyuan family of the Yellow Emperor had made great achievements in casting tripods in the past. In order to commemorate the Tushan Conference, he prepared to cast the gold donated by the princes from all sides into several large tripods.

The Houjiuding (i.e. Jizhou Ding, Yanzhou Ding, Qingzhou Ding, Xuzhou Ding, Yangzhou Ding, Jingzhou Ding, Yuzhou Ding, Liangzhou Ding, Yongzhou Ding) was cast, and the famous mountains and rivers, birds and animals of each state were cast on the tripod. Strange beast. Jiuding symbolizes the nine states, among which the Yuzhou tripod is the central tripod, and Yuzhou is the central hub. The Nine Cauldrons were concentrated in Yangcheng, the capital of the Xia Dynasty, to show that Xia King Dayu had become the lord of the Nine Provinces, and the world was unified from then on.

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