Chapter 1 Controlling the Water
readx;? In 2332 BC, Yao offered sacrifices to Luoshui in the hope of praying that the flood waters would recede, but to no avail. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info At that time, the flood was already extremely serious.
"Shangshu Yaodian" recorded: "The soup and soup floods are harmful, swinging Huaishan Xiangling, and the sky is mighty. β
"When Yao was around, the water went retrograde and flooded China. (Mencius Teng Wen Gong)
"There is a great overflow, and there are no hills, no fertile hills, no plains, no high hills. ("Lu Lan's Class")
"River, the one who can live in the water. Xiyao was flooded, and the dwellings were high in the water, so it was called Kyushu. ("Speaking of Wenchuanbu")
"All the people went up to the hills and to the trees. (Huainanzi)
By the time of Emperor Yao, due to the continuous warming of global temperatures, the melting of ice and snow on the earth, especially the glaciers in the Antarctic and the Arctic, accelerated, resulting in a rise in sea level and large-scale sea flooding in coastal areas. At this point, the second flood occurred. Sea levels have risen dramatically, 2-4 metres higher than they are now, and higher than the continental lowlands, leading to intrusion. Before the second flood, the continent was much larger than it is now, and the continental shelf of the East China Sea, parts of the United States east of Miami, the North Sea, the Bering Strait, and other "seas" were all land, and they were all submerged after the flood.
Hanging coffin burial is a kind of strange burial custom of sending the coffin of the dead to the cliff, all over the ten provinces and regions in southern China, with the hanging coffin of Wuyi Mountain, Chong'an, Fujian Province as the earliest, and can be determined by carbon 14 to the Neolithic Age. In the era when there was a lack of lifting equipment, how did hundreds or thousands of catties of burial utensils be transported onto a cliff of nearly 100 meters? Why did the ancients do this? According to the fact that the burial utensils were in the shape of a boat and there were fish bones with the burial, the occurrence of hanging coffin burials should be related to the great flood. As the flood swept across the continent, only a handful of people fled to pre-built boats, where they made their homes and drifted with the current, and when they died, they were buried on the boats, which were originally laid on the shoreline. A few years later, when the flood waters receded, the sea turned into a mulberry field, and the land returned to its original state, so that the coastline became a cliff and their cemetery became a hanging coffin. Hanging coffin burial, Noah's Ark of the East.
At this time, Yao was not only worried about the flood, but also worried about the problem of his successor. The successors selected before are all old, so Yao wants to find a young successor, so he wants to see if his son Zhu is suitable, but although Zhu has grown up, he is not doing his job, he is idle, gathering friends and fighting fiercely, and often causes trouble.
Di Yao thought to himself: If you want Zhu to be good, you must first stabilize his nature, entertain his heart, and teach him to learn a few examples. At first, it was to teach hunting skills, Zhu Buxi, Yao sighed and said: "If you don't want to learn to hunt, just learn the stone chess of marching and fighting, the stone chess has been learned, and it is very useful." As he spoke, he used an arrow to carve more than a dozen squares on a flat slope rock, picked up a large pile of mountain stones, and gave half of them to Danzhu, and explained to Zhu how to use stones to represent the advance and retreat in the process of leading the tribe to fight. Zhu could also listen to it at this time, and seemed to be patient.
For a period of time after that, Zhu Xueqi was very attentive and did not wander outside, and his teacher Sanyi was more down-to-earth. Di Yao said to the Sanyi clan: "Shiziqi contains a deep truth about governing the people, the army, and the mountains and rivers, if Zhu really changes his mind and understands these truths, it is natural to take over my throne." "Unexpectedly, Zhu Qi has not studied thoroughly, but he listened to the bad words of the previous gang, felt that playing chess was too restrictive, there was no freedom at all, and he had to spend his brains, making old mistakes in the past, making friends all day long, and even wanted to use tricks to seize the position of his father.
Di Yao was very sad and never wanted to see Zhu again. In 2327 BC, Yao sent Houji to exile him to Danshui (Danzhu Village, Xinzhuang Township, Fan County, Puyang, Henan), and became an ordinary prince, and from then on he was called Danzhu.
Later, the pottery produced the pattern of Go squares, and there was a record in the history books that "Yao made Go to teach Danzhu".
The question of the successor has not been settled, but the matter of the flood is imminent, and Yao can no longer tolerate the incompetence of officials such as Gonggong to control the water.
One day, he took his ministers to his side and said to them, "Ministers, who do you think can come and take charge of the great task now that the flood is at the head of the flood and the people have suffered so much, and it is necessary to put this great flood under control?"
So the ministers and the chiefs of the tribes elected the descendants of the Zhuan. Kun is the leader of the Xia Hou clan, the great-great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor, the fifth grandson of Zhuan, and his wife is the daughter of the Xin family, also called Xuji.
In BC2324, that is, the sixty-first year of Emperor Yao, Kun was enshrined by Yao in Chong, as an earl, known as "Chongbo Kun" or "Chongbo", and was ordered to control floods. Therefore, the Xia Hou clan is also known as the Chong clan.
The water barrier method is used to set up a river embankment on the bank. However, the water flooded higher and higher, and it took nine years to quell the scourge of the flood.
For a long time, people thought that the method of water control was inappropriate, it was blocked, so it failed, and the successor Dayu's method was correct, it was guided, so it succeeded, and thus became an emperor through the ages.
In fact, the investigation and punishment of Kun is a case of injustice for the ages. You must know that this flood is characterized by the inflow of seawater, at least in the early and middle stages, there is nowhere to drain it, and there is no way to guide it, so you can only take the method of blocking. Moreover, the method of blocking and controlling the water is divided into three levels: one is to build a large mound to provide shelter for the victims, the second is to build an embankment, and the third is to build a castle.
In the past, China's society was scattered in the wilderness, and Kun had a patent right to build a city. "LΓΌ's Spring and Autumn": "Xia Cang is the city." "Notes on the Book of Water": "Kun is a city." "Wu Yue Spring and Autumn Period": "Kun built a city to defend the king, built Guo to guard the people, and the beginning of this city is also." "The city has the function of waterproofing, and Kun is the earliest city builder in Chinese history. The city is also a symbol of civilization, so that the Chinese human race ended the history of no fixed residence, is a major element of the country, his grandson Qi is on this basis to establish the first country in the history of our country - Xia, the earliest archaeological excavation site in our country is Xia Erlitou.
There is nothing wrong with the flood control method, and the plugging is an effective method for this special flood. This flood from the Upper Paleolithic to the Late Neolithic can be divided into five periods: dry, flood, fluctuating, flooding, and stable.
In fact, the period has entered a plateau, with temperatures fluctuating and declining, and the coastline beginning to recede as the temperature drops. However, the sea level was still higher than the land, so it was not possible to use the channeling method.
In 2316 BC, the sixty-ninth year of Emperor Yao, Chongbokun was deposed because of his ineffective water control.
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