In his later years, Di Yao felt that his body was no longer good and he could no longer manage the affairs of the human race.

On this day, he was anxious and asked, "I have been in power for seventy years, and which of you can follow the mandate of heaven to take over my throne?"

The ministers replied, "Our virtues are so despicable that we dare not tarnish the throne." ”

Yao said, "Then let it be elected from among all the ministers and hermits with the same surname and different surnames." ”

Fang Qi said: "Your son Danzhu Tongda can take over the throne of the emperor." ”

Yao said, "Hmph! Dan Zhu is a stupid and vicious person who can't be used. ”

Everyone said to Yao: "There is a person named Yu Shun who lives among the people, and his virtue is very good. ”

Di Yao said, "Well, I've heard of him, how about this person?"

Siyue replied, "He is the son of a blind man. His father was ignorant, his mother was stubborn, and his younger brother was arrogant, but Shun was able to live in harmony with them, and did his best to govern the family so that they would not go evil. ”

Yao said, "Then I'll try him." ”

So Yao married his two daughters to him, and observed his virtues from them. Shun asked them to lower their noble hearts and live in their homes by the Fu River, and to observe the way of being women. Yao thought that this was very good, so he let Shun try to take up the position of Situ, and carefully obey the five ethics and morals of fatherhood, mother's kindness, brotherhood, brotherhood, brotherhood, and filial piety, and the people would not violate it. Yao also let him participate in the affairs of the hundred officials, so the affairs of the hundred officials became orderly. Let him receive guests at the four gates of the Ming Hall, and the four gates are harmonious everywhere, and the princes and guests who come from afar are respectful. Yao also sent Shun into the mountains, jungles, rivers, and grasses, and encountered storms and thunderstorms, and Shun did not get lost and misbehaved.

When Yao saw this, he gave Shun a set of fine kudzu clothes, gave him a harp, built him a storehouse, and gave him cattle and sheep.

He still wanted to kill him, and asked Shun to climb high and repair the barn with dirt, but he set fire to it from below. Shun protected himself with two hats, jumped down like wings, and escaped so that he could not die.

Later, Shun asked Shun to dig a well, and when Shun was digging a well, he dug a secret passage in the side wall leading to the outside. Shun dug into the depths, and the elephant poured soil down to fill the well, and Shun went out of the secret passage next to him and escaped again. The Elephant was glad to think that Shun was dead. The elephant said, "I was the one who came up with the idea. Xiang divided Shun's property with his parents and said, "I want the two daughters that Shun married Yao, as well as the piano that Yao gave him." Let the cows, sheep, and barns belong to their parents. ”

Xiang then lived in Shun's house and played Shun's piano, and Shun came back to visit him. He was very stunned, and then put on a sullen appearance and said, "I am missing you, I think I am so bored!" Shun said, "Yes, you are really a brother!" Shun still treats his parents as before, loves his brother and is more respectful. In this way, Yao Cai tried Shun to straighten out the five ethics and morals and participate in the affairs of the hundred officials. Yao even thought he was very smart and moral, and called him and said, "In the past three years, you have done things carefully, and you can do what you say." Now you will ascend to the throne of the Son of Heaven. Shun Tui Rang said that his virtue was not enough, and he was unwilling to accept the throne.

Di Yao said: "Those who can endure can't just think that they should do more for others, and I am too old to manage the people." You are the most virtuous of all the people I have ever met, and if you don't accept the throne of the emperor, who else can accept it. ”

Shun resolutely refused to accept the position of the emperor, and Emperor Yao had no choice but to let Shun act as the agent of the Son of Heaven in order to observe whether it was in line with the will of Heaven for him to be the Son of Heaven. Shun then observed the Big Dipper to investigate whether there was any abnormality in the movement of the sun, moon, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and then held a temporary ritual to sacrifice to God, and sacrificed heaven and earth with the ritual of putting sacrifices on the fire to burn them, and sacrificed the famous mountains and rivers with the ritual of remote sacrifices, and generally sacrificed to various gods. He collected the five kinds of jade talismans held by the marquis of the fifth rank, Huan Gui, Xin Gui, Bow Gui, Gu Bi, and Pu Bi, and selected the auspicious day of the good month to summon the four mountains and the governors of various states and give them to them. In February, Shun went to the east to inspect Mount Tai, and used the ceremony of burning wood to worship Dongyue, and the ceremony of remote sacrifice to worship the famous mountains and rivers in various places. Then he summoned the princes of the East to coordinate and correct the four solar terms, the size of the moon, the A and B of the sun, the unified rhythm and the standards of length, capacity, and weight, and revised the five kinds of etiquette of Mingji, fierce, bin, jun, and jia, stipulating that the princes should use five kinds of guibi and three kinds of colored silk, and the doctors should use lambs and geese as gifts for the court, and the five kinds of guibi should be returned to the princes after the court meeting ceremony. The tour to the south in May, the tour to the west in August, and the tour to the north in November: all as they did when they first went to the east. After returning, he told the ancestral temple and the father temple to use a cow as a sacrifice. After that, he inspected every five years, and during the four years in between, the princes and kings came to Beijing on time to meet with him. Shun generally stated to the princes how to govern the country, clearly examined it according to merit, and gave chariots and horses clothes according to merit. Shun began to divide the world into twelve states, dredging rivers. It is stipulated that the law shall be enforced according to the normal punishment, and the five punishments of piercing, nose cutting, foot amputation, castration, and beheading shall be reduced by the method of exile, and the punishment shall be used as atonement for the punishment of the government with a whip, the punishment shall be administered by the school education, and the punishment shall be made with a ruler of discipline. Those who have made mistakes as a result of disasters shall be pardoned, and those who persist in doing evil shall be punished.

At this time, Sanmiao caused many chaos in the Jiang, Huai and Jingzhou valleys. At this time, Shun returned from his inspection and reported to Emperor Yao, requesting that he be exiled to Chongshan in order to change the customs of the Nanban, and that Sanmiao be relocated to Sanwei Mountain in order to change the customs of Xirong. Kill him for failing to control the flood. After punishing these sinners, everyone in the world was satisfied. Yao reigned for 70 years, and Shun retired for another 20 years, but due to old age, he asked Shun to act as the Son of Heaven's government affairs, and recommended it to God. Yao died twenty-eight years after he abdicated the throne. The people grieve and mourn as if they had died in life. Within three years, no one played music in all parts of the Quartet in order to mourn Di Yao. Yao knew that his son Dan Zhu Buxian was not worthy of passing on to him the world, so he tried to give it to Shun. If it is given to Shun, everyone in the world will get benefits, but only Danzhu will be disadvantaged, and if it is passed on to Danzhu, the people of the world will suffer, and only Danzhu will get benefits. Yao said: "After all, I can't make the world suffer and only let one person benefit", so in the end, I passed the world to Shun. Three years after Yao's death, after serving the funeral, Shun gave up the throne to Danzhu and hid on the south bank of the Nanhe River. The princes who came to the pilgrimage did not go to Danzhu, but they came to Shun to fight lawsuits, and they did not go to Danzhu, but came to Shun to praise the merits, and did not sing the praises of Danzhu, but came to sing the praises of Shun. Shun said, "This is the will of heaven", and then he went to Kyoto to ascend to the throne of the Son of Heaven, this is Emperor Shun.

Yu Shun's name is Chonghua. Chonghua's father is called Qiaoniu, Qiaoniu's father is called Juwang, Juwang's father is Jingkang, Jingkang's father is called Poor Cicada. The father of the poor cicada is Emperor Zhuan's father is Changyi: from Changyi to Shun is seven generations. Since the poor cicada became the emperor, until the middle of Emperor Shun, several generations of low-status are commoners. Shun's father, Shun, was blind, and after Shun's biological mother died, he remarried another wife and gave birth to an elephant, which was unruly. The son who likes his stepwife often wants to kill Shun, and Shun has avoided it, and if he catches up with the slightest mistake, he will be severely punished. Shun served his father, stepmother and stepmother and brother very deferentially, becoming more and more loyal and cautious day by day, without slacking off. Shun has cultivated fields in Lishan, fished in Leize, made pottery on the banks of the Yellow River, made various household utensils in Shouqiu, and ran and sold in the negative summer. Shun's father is ignorant, his mother is stubborn, and his younger brother is unruly, and they all want to kill Shun. Shun acted obediently, never violated the way of being a son, loved his brothers, and was filial to his parents. They couldn't find him when they wanted to kill him, and when they wanted to find him, he was always there to wait.

Since Shun succeeded to the throne and became the emperor of the people, he has worked hard to govern the world, and he has no time to sleep every day. And since Kun was killed by Shun in Yushan, he did not find a person who could replace Kun to deal with the floods, and the floods in the flood became more and more severe, at this time, someone recommended Kun's son Yu and said that Yu could cure the water, and Shun agreed to let Yu take over from Kun to control the floods when no one could send him.

Yu's name is Wen Ming. Yu's father is 颧閼, his father is Emperor 颛顼, his father is Changyi, and Changyi's father is the Yellow Emperor. Yu is the great-great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor, the grandson of Emperor Zhuan. Yu's great-grandfather Changyi and father Kun did not ascend to the throne, but served as ministers to the Son of Heaven. In order to cure the flood and wash away his father's shame, he immediately summoned the people of the world to help with Yihe Houji. He inspected the river and examined the reasons for the failure, decided to reform the method of water control, changed the blockage to the channel, personally crossed the mountains and mountains, flowed the river and crossed the river, took tools to measure the level of the terrain from west to east, set a benchmark, and planned the waterway. He led the migrant workers to go all over the country, and according to the benchmarks, they opened mountains and built embankments to dredge waterways and divert floodwaters into the sea. Yu tried his best to control the water, was not afraid of hard work, and never dared to rest. He and the Tushan family's female name and daughter Jiaojiao left his wife soon after they got married, and set foot on the road of water control again. Later, when he passed by the door of the house, he heard the sound of his wife giving birth to his son and falling to the ground, so he gritted his teeth and did not enter the house. When he passed by for the third time, his son Qizheng was holding his mother's arms, he already knew how to tell his father to wave his little hand to greet Yu, Yu just waved his hand to his wife and children, indicating that he saw them, or did not stop.

Yu also cares about the suffering of the people. Once I saw a man so poor that he sold his child, and Yu ransomed the child back. When he saw that some of the people had no food, he asked Houji to distribute the only grain to the people. Yu wore tattered clothes, ate poor food, lived in a simple tent, and took the lead in the hardest and dirtiest work every day. Over the years, the hairs on his legs and arms were stripped naked, his palms and soles were thick with calluses, his body was dry, and his face was dark. After thirteen years of hard work, they opened up countless mountains, dredged countless rivers, built countless embankments, and made all the rivers in the world flow to the sea, and finally successfully cured the floods. The land that had just receded from the flood was too wet, so Yu gave the people seeds and taught them to grow rice.

Yu often encounters the obstruction of the mountain in the control of the water, Yu organizes the people to open the mountain, but the manpower is limited, the effect is not very good, Yu is very troubled. At this time, the great god Mrs. Yunhua lived in Wushan, and when Yu heard that Mrs. Yunhua had great magical powers, she went to Mrs. Yunhua for help, and when Mrs. Yunhua saw that Yu was dedicated to the people, she asked the maid to give Yu the spell to summon ghosts and gods, and let her subordinates help Mad Zhang, Yu Yu, Huang Devil, Da Peng, Gengchen, Tong Lu, etc. And gave Yu two treasures - the mountain axe and the water sword, the mountain axe is used to open the mountain and drain the water, and the sword is used to kill the monsters in the water.

Yu opened the road of nine mountain ranges: one from Huangshan and Qishan to Jingshan and cross the Yellow River; one from Hukou Mountain and Lei Mountain to Taiyue Mountain; one from Zhuzhu Mountain and Xicheng Mountain to Wangwu Mountain; one from Taihang Mountain and Changshan Mountain to Jieshi Mountain to enter the sea and connect with the waterway; one from Xiyan Mountain, Zhuyuan Mountain, Bird and Mouse Mountain all the way to Taihua Mountain; one from Bear's Ears Mountain, Waifang Mountain, Tongbai Mountain is open all the way to Negative Tail Mountain, one is open from Lingzuka Mountain to Jing Mountain, one is opened from Neifang Mountain all the way to Dabie Mountain, one is opened from the south of Wenshan Mountain to Heng Mountain, crosses the Jiujiang River and finally reaches Shiqianyuan Mountain.

Yu channeled nine large rivers: channeled the weak water to Heli so that the downstream of the weak water was injected into quicksand. It diverts the black water to flow into the South China Sea through the Sanwei Mountain. The Yellow River is channeled, starting from Jishi Mountain, to Longmen Mountain, south to Huayin, then turning eastward, passing through Zhuzhu Mountain, continuing eastward to Mengjin, and then eastward, passing through Luoshui into the estuary, until Dapi, and then to the north, passing through precipitation to Daliuze, and then northward into nine rivers, these nine rivers to the downstream and confluence into one, called the reverse river, and finally flowing into the sea. Starting from Lingzuka Mountain, the Yangshui flows eastward, which is the Han River, and then flows eastward, which is the Canglang Water, passes through the Sanshui Water to the south of Dabie Mountain, and flows into the Yangtze River, and then meets the water of Peng Lize to the east, and continues to the east is the Beijiang River, which flows into the sea. Starting from Wenshan, the Yangtze River divides to the east, the tributary is Tuoshui, and then the east reaches Lishui, passes through the Jiujiang River to reach Tangling, flows diagonally to the east, flows northward, meets the water of Peng Lize, continues to the east, is the Zhongjiang River, and finally flows into the sea. Channeling the water to the east, that is, the water is poured into the Yellow River, the two waters meet and overflow into Yingze, pass through the north of Taoqiu, continue to the east to reach Heze, meet with Wenshui in the northeast, and then flow into the sea in the north. Starting from Tongbai Mountain, the Huaishui River is diverted to the east, and it meets Surabaya and Yishui to the east, and then flows eastward into the sea. The Weishui River is channeled, starting from the Bird and Mouse Tongxue Mountain, meeting Fengshui in the east, meeting Jingshui in the east, and then flowing into the Yellow River through Qishui and Fushui in the east. The Luoshui River is channeled from the Bear's Ear Mountain, to the northeast to meet with Jianshui and Qianshui, and then to the east to meet with Yishui, and then to the northeast into the Yellow River. All the mountains and rivers have been controlled, and since then Kyushu has been unified, nine mountains have been inhabited, roads have been opened, nine large rivers have dredged water sources, nine large lakes have been built, and all princes within the four seas can come to the capital to meet the alliance and make pilgrimages.

Due to Yu's success in controlling the water, Emperor Shun gave Yu a piece of black jade gui at the sacrificial ceremony to commend his merits and announce the success and the great rule of the world to the people of heaven and earth. Soon, Yu was named Bo, and Xia was his country. Yu's prestige in the world has reached its peak. All the people praised, "If it weren't for Yu, we would have become fish and turtles long ago." Emperor Shun praised Yu and said, "Yu, Yu! You are my arms, thighs, ears and eyes." I want to do good for the people, and you will assist me. I want to observe the sky, know the sun, moon and stars, compose and embroider clothes, and you advise me. I want to listen to the six laws, five tones and eight tones to control the chaos and preach the five virtues, you help me. You never slander me to my face. You have made the DPRK righteous and innocent by your sincerity, virtue and example. You have exalted my holy virtues, and the credit is too great!"

Emperor Shun recommended Yu to heaven and made him the heir to the throne. Seventeen years later, Emperor Shun died. After three years of mourning, Yu took refuge in Yangcheng in order to give up the throne to Shun's son Shangjun. But the princes of the world did not go to worship Shang Jun and came to worship Yu. Yu inherited the throne of the Son of Heaven and accepted the worship of the princes of the world in the south, and the country name was Xiahou, surnamed Him. People call it Dayu.

In order to consolidate the Xia Dynasty, Dayu divided the country into Kyushu (namely Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yuzhou, Liangzhou, Yongzhou) for management, and also used the copper of the mountain to refine nine Dading as a symbol of Jiuzhou. At that time, the patriarch of the ancient Yue tribe, the Fang Feng clan, always wanted to dominate one side, claiming to be the head of the Yue people, and the chiefs of the tribes did not listen to Dayu's orders. Dayu ordered him to be executed and brutalized for three days at the Miaoshan Conference. The princes and uncles from all over the country knew the power of the Xia Dynasty and the sacredness of Dayu, and they did not dare to offend King Yu again. Those clans and tribes who did not participate in the court to meet King Yu heard about this and also paid tribute to the Xia Dynasty.

Yi Di made some wine, after Yu drank it, he felt that the taste was very mellow, so he gave Yi Di an order to stop making wine, Yi Di was very puzzled and asked: "Since the king said that the taste of wine is very good, why not let all people taste this delicious taste, but ban it?" Dayu said: "Just because the taste of wine is mellow and beautiful, so that people do not feel intoxicated in it, people will not think about other things except wine, and future generations will definitely die because of wine." Soon after Yu succeeded to the throne, he elected Gao Tao as his heir and gave him full authority to handle government affairs. After the unfortunate death of Gaotao, Boyi was elected as the heir to be responsible for government affairs. Emperor Yu toured the south in the tenth year of his reign. When crossing the river, a yellow dragon swam and arched the big boat, and the people on board were very afraid. Dayu looked up to the sky and sighed: "I am ordered by the sky." Sasuke, who lives by heaven, dies and wants to return to heaven. Why should you worry about this dragon?" the dragon wagged its tail and bowed its head. Dayu arrived at Huiji and died there. Pass the world to the good.

When Boyi became the emperor, Xia Qi was not convinced, he colluded with the ministers, seized the throne of Boyi, and exiled Boyi. Bo Yi was originally from Dongyi, and he gathered the Dongyi tribe to lead the army to kill Qi. And Qi was prepared early and defeated Boyi's army in a big battle. Despite Kai's defeat of Boyi, many tribes expressed strong opposition to his change in the Chanrang tradition. There was a clan leader named Youhu who stood up against Xia Qi's approach and demanded that he remain in Boyi in accordance with the decision of the tribal council. So Xia Qi and Youhu fought in Ganze. Before the battle between the two armies began, Xia Qi encouraged the soldiers and said: I want to tell you that this Youhu clan is disrespectful to the Emperor of Heaven and disobeys the king's orders, and God has borrowed my hand to destroy him! Therefore, you must obey my orders and fight hard to attack, and you must not slack off! After Xia Qi's training was finished, the soldiers of the Sixth Army brandished their swords and guns and shouted and rushed towards the Youhu clan's ranks. After a fierce battle, the Youhu clan was defeated, and the members of the Youhu tribe were punished as slaves. Since then, Xia Qi's throne has finally been secured.

After Xia Qi died of illness, the throne was passed on to his son Taikang, and then passed on to Zhongkang, Xiang, Shaokang, Yu, Huai, Mang, Chu, Bu Descending, Bian, Yinjia, Kong Jia, Gao, and then to Ji. From Qi to Jifan, the thirteenth generation and the sixteenth generation of the calendar, four hundred and seventy-two years, after Xia Ji ascended the throne, he did not think of reform, arrogant and lascivious, built a palace, and decorated Yaotai, and spent extravagantly. He drank and had fun with his sister day and night, ignoring the hardships of the people, and the people pointed to the sun and cursed Xia Wei. The minister Guan Long was loyal to him and killed him. The princes of the Quartet also betrayed Xia Wei one after another, and fell into an isolated situation of internal and external difficulties.

At this time, the princes of the Xia Dynasty and the merchants slowly became stronger, and the leaders of the merchants at that time called Tang, Tang saw that Xia Wei was tyrannical and lost the hearts of the people, and Tang was determined to destroy Xia. Fearing that Tang's power would grow and threaten him, he summoned Tang to the summer capital and imprisoned him in Xiatai. The Shang clan also sent a large amount of money and bribed Ji's cronies to release Tang and return to Shang. Yu's wife had a dowry slave named Yi Yin Yucha who made him work in the kitchen. Yi Yin is very talented, and in order to make the soup appear, he deliberately makes the dishes very delicious, and sometimes they are salty or bland. Once Tang questioned him about this matter, he took the opportunity to talk to Tang about his views on governing the country. Tang Dawei was surprised and knew that he was a virtuous man, so he was exempted from the status of a slave and appointed as the right minister. Since then, under Yi Yin's planning, Tang has actively prepared to destroy the summer. Tang Yiren won the hearts of the people and won the support of the people, and once he went out to play, he saw a man hanging a net on a tree, and then muttered to himself: "Whether it is from heaven or from the ground, all birds from all over the world fly into the net." Tang said to him, "You have gone too far, how can you kill them all like this! The peasants did as they were told. Tang Zhu said: "Birds, if you want to go to the left, go to the left, and go to the right, and only the birds that don't listen to me will fly into the net." After the news of the opening of the soup net and the spread of the three faces and the beasts, the people praised him for his generosity and kindness to the people, and they supported the Tang to further grow his power.

Tang Li counted Xia Wei's tyranny and unreasonableness, and called on Xia's small vassal states to turn their backs on Xia and return to the attached merchants. and to those who did not listen to his counsel, they sent out their armies to destroy them. Such as Ge, Wei, Gu and other Xia Dynasty subjects to cut off the wings of the ji. Shang Tang became stronger and stronger the more he fought, and he was invincible in the world. Xia Wei was in isolation. Tang also moved the capital to Yu Hao, using it as a base for advance, preparing to finally defeat the Xia Dynasty. Tang also adopted Yi Yin's suggestion to stop paying tribute to the Xia dynasty in order to test Xia Wei's strength. Ji ordered the Jiuyi soldiers to negotiate with him, which showed that Ji could still mobilize the forces of the Jiuyi clan, and Tang and Yi Yin saw that the people in the world were not completely disappointed in Ji, so they immediately asked for guilt and resumed paying tribute to Xia Ji, and Ji actually forgave Shang Tang.

A year later, the Jiuyi tribe could not stand the brutal rule of the Ji, and rebelled one after another, which greatly weakened the power of the Ji, and Tang and Yi Yin saw that the time was ripe, so Tang summoned his troops to attack Xia, and defeated Xia Ji in one fell swoop, and exiled the Ji to Nanchao. So far, the Great Xia Dynasty established by Xia Qi has perished in the time of Xia Ji for 472 years.