During the reign of Emperor Yu, he ruled the country with benevolence and lived a frugal life; he usually looked solemn and quiet, and his moral character was as lofty as a mountain. He was gracious, loving, and trustworthy. He understands the sufferings of the people and treats all people in the world equally. He never violated the laws of nature, and respectfully sacrificed to the heavens, earth, ghosts and gods, and prayed to the gods to bless all people. Because of his noble virtues, he was deeply loved by the people. Under his rule, the society was prosperous and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.

Emperor Yu is also a monarch who is very good at identifying talents, Xianhei, Zhab is good at music and making musical instruments, Emperor Yu ordered them to be music officials, and finally created the music of "Nine Strokes" and new musical instruments such as drums, pipes, pipes, xun, curtains, etc., following Fuxi Shennong, once again enriched the spiritual civilization of the human race.

All in all, after the era of the Three Emperors, as well as the foreshadowing of the Shaohao and Zhuan eras, the human race can be said to have seen an extremely prosperous and peaceful era in the era of the emperor. He loves people and benefits them. Emphasize the rule of the world with integrity and benevolence. Emperor Yu is especially known for his honesty among the people. As a generation of emperors, Emperor Yu can not only cultivate self-discipline and selflessness, but also advocate integrity, discern good and evil, and is deeply loved by the people.

Emperor Yu had five sons, Zhi, Abandonment, Qi, Yao, and Taixi. After Emperor Yu's abdication, the son born to his second concubine was also Yu's first son, that is, the eldest son of Shu, Zhi, succeeded to the throne.

However, although Zhi inherited the throne of Yu, Zhi himself is not a sage who governs the country, but a Taoist idiot who likes to practice. Therefore, after nine years on the throne, Zhi deeply felt that he was not as capable as his younger brother Yao, so he gave up the imperial throne to his younger brother Yao, and he himself chose to go to the Huoyun Secret Realm to seek the Tao.

Yao was born to Emperor Yu's second concubine Qingdu, and the fourth son of Emperor Yu.

At the end of the first month of spring of a certain year, Qingdu and his parents took a boat on the three rivers to tour, and a flying red dragon appeared at noon. The next day, a smaller red dragon appeared, and at night, Qing couldn't sleep, and couldn't help but purse his lips and laugh with his eyes closed. In the haze, the yin wind was four, the red dragon pounced on her, and when she woke up, she still left a fishy saliva foam on her body, and left a painting covered with saliva foam beside her, on which a red portrait was painted, with a plump face, eight eyebrows, long hair, and the painting read: Also blessed by God. After that, she became pregnant. Fourteen months later, she gave birth to a son, who was exactly like the man depicted in the picture. This kid is Yao.

Qingdu took his son to live in his mother's house, and raised his son until he was ten years old before letting him return to his father's side. Therefore, when Di Yao was young, he first followed his maternal grandfather's family as Yiqi, and later called Tao Tang. Therefore, later generations also called Yao "Tang Yao".

After Yao succeeded to the throne, in order to further avoid the floods that had already seen the first signs in the emperor's period, he chose to move the capital again. Eventually, the capital was Binh Duong.

In Pingyang, the capital of Dingdu, after succeeding to the throne, because the human race as a whole has developed into a peaceful and prosperous era during the emperor's period, therefore, the virtuous Yao did not embark on the road of great joy for his own merits, but chose to concentrate on improving the internal affairs of the human race, so that the human race can develop better.

First of all, he ordered the sages under his command to calculate and calculate the calendar, establish the four seasons of age, and grant agricultural seasons to the people. On the basis of the calendar and the solar terms of the emperor, the spring equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox, and winter solstice were determined.

Second, Yao set up a drum of admonition so that the people of the world could do what they said, and set up a tree of slander for the people of the world to attack his mistakes.

Third, in the early days of Yao's rule, there was no basic state system, the state was only a tribal association, very loose, not conducive to the unified management of the country, so after Yao accumulated a certain amount of governance experience, he began to establish a national political system, one of which is to appoint officials according to various government affairs, and for the first time in the history of the human race, a relatively systematic political system was established, which laid the foundation for the emergence of the country in the future.

Fourth, Yao attaches great importance to the excavation of talents. There are eleven virtuous ministers under Yao's command, which can be described as full of talents. But he is afraid of burying talents, and there are no virtuous people in the wild. Therefore, he often went deep into the poor countryside, went to the mountains and wilderness to search for details, asked for talents, inspected political gains and losses, and selected talents.

Fifth, although Yao's son Danzhu grew up, he was a teenager but did not do his job, idle, gathered friends to fight fiercely, and often caused trouble.

Sixth, sake brewing. Legend has it that Yao was transformed by a dragon and was particularly sensitive to aura. Attracted by the aura of the dripping pool, everyone was brought to live here in peace, and the aura of this place was used to develop agriculture, so that the people could live and work in peace and contentment. In order to thank God and pray for the future, Yao will select the best grain, soak it in dripping pool water, remove all impurities with a special technique, and quench out the essence of the water to brew and pray for blessings, this water is clear and pure, fragrant and long, in order to pay tribute to God, and distribute it to the people to celebrate their health and well-being, which is the earliest wine. In order to be grateful to Yu Yao, the people named the water of prayer "Huayao".

In the end, Yao lived a very frugal life after taking power, living in a thatched hut, drinking wild vegetable soup, and wearing coarse cloth clothes woven from kudzu vines. Therefore, Yao was very concerned about the suffering of the people and devoted his life to the benefit of the people.

Looking at Yao's reign, everything he did was worthy of the title of Emperor Xian, but there was one thing that became the only flaw during Yao's reign.

That is water control.

Since the beginning of the emperor's period, the flood on the desolate land has begun to show its first signs, and the emperor has moved the capital to "milli" in order to avoid the flood.

Later, Emperor Yu's eldest son, Yao's brother Zhi succeeded to the throne, and reigned for nine years, but the flood was still not effectively controlled, so after Yao succeeded to the throne, he chose to move the capital to Pingyang again in order to avoid the flood.

Because Yao was extremely concerned about the livelihood of the people, he knew that the flood would bring great disasters to the people, so he had been painstakingly seeking a way to control the water. In the later period of Yao's reign, the flood became more and more intense, the Tangtang flood was cut, the Huaishan Xiangling was swept away, the vast and monstrous, the water was huge, rushing and roaring, flooding the hills, rushing to Gaogang, endangering the world, and the people were not able to live.

Yao was very concerned about this, and consulted Siyue (i.e., the chief of the princes of the four directions) to ask who could control the floods, and Siyue recommended Kun. Yao felt that Kun was unreliable, often disobeyed orders, and endangered the interests of his own clan, so he was not suitable to undertake this important work. But Siyue insisted that Kun give it a try, so Yao appointed Kun to deal with the floods. As a result, Kun adopted the method of interception and controlled the flood for nine years, which not only had no merit, but finally made the flood worse than before, and also made this flood control the only stain on Yao's political achievements.

Other than that, Yao is perfect.