Yao said, "Ah, leader of the princes of the four directions, I have reigned for seventy years, you can carry out the order, you can take my throne!" The four replied, "Despicable virtue will defile the throne." Yao said, "Then you should recommend as much as possible, whether it is a noble relative, or a recluse who has no relationship." The four of them recommended to Yao in unison: "There is an unmarried commoner named Yu Shun." Yao said, "Yes, I have heard of it, but what is it?" and all four of them said: "He is a blind son, his father is not kind-hearted, his mother is not righteous, and his younger brother is arrogant and rude, but he can be harmonious and filial, and handle a family well, and nothing goes wrong." Yao said, "I'll try it." ”

So Yao married his two daughters to Shun and observed him from how he treated them. Shun actually made them willing to condescend to live in the concubine bay, and everything was in line with the way of women. Yao was very satisfied, so Shun preached the five ethics with his heart, and the five ethics were all enjoyed by the people. He also made Shun hold various public offices, and all kinds of public offices were handled in an orderly manner. So that he received guests at the four gates of the national capital, and the hotels at the four gates were harmonious, and the guests who came from afar from the vassal countries were in awe. Yao also made Shun enter the land of primeval mountains, forests and rivers, and in the storm and thunderstorm, Shun was able not to lose his way. Yao thought he was a great person, so he summoned Shun and said: "You plan things carefully, what you say will definitely be done, and it has been three years since you came to the throne." Shun always felt that he was not virtuous enough, and he was always uneasy about it.

On an auspicious day in the first month of the first month, Shun received the entrustment to complete politics for Yao at the Wenzu Temple. Wenzu Temple is the temple of Yao Taizu. So Di Yao retired at home and ordered Shun to carry out the decree of the Son of Heaven on his behalf to observe the will of Heaven (to see if Heaven was willing to accept Shun as the Son of Heaven.) Shun then observes the celestial phenomena through the (armillary sphere) operating jade and the jade balance that maintains the level, and whether the position of the sun and moon is correct, (in order to experience whether there is a political error. So the ritual of the sacrifice was used to worship the god of Haotian, the ritual of the sacrifice to worship the four seasons of heaven and earth, the ritual of the hope sacrifice to the famous mountains and rivers, and the common sacrifice to other gods.

Accept the five kinds of jade (held by the princes of the coming dynasty) (Huan Gui, Xin Gui, Bow Gui, Gu Bi, Pu Bi), choose an auspicious month and auspicious day, meet with the princes of the four directions and the heads of the twelve states, and return the jade to them. In February of the same year, he went to the east to inspect and arrived at Mount Tai, and sacrificed to the heavens with the Ao, and worshiped the mountains and rivers in turn with the Hope Sacrifice. So he met with the princes of the East, calibrated the four seasons and months, corrected the errors of the day, unified the rhythm, the ruler, the bucket, and the jin, and rectified the five etiquettes of auspiciousness, fierceness, bin, army, and jia. Five kinds of jade, three kinds of colored silk (red, black, and white), two kinds of creatures (lamb and goose), and one dead thing (pheasant) were given as gifts when they first met, and if they were given jade, they were still returned to them after the ceremony was completed. In May, they went to the south, in August to the west, and in November to the north, all as if they were to the east. After returning, he went to Yao's father temple and ancestral temple to worship, and each used a bull as a sacrifice. Patrol for one week every five years. The princes of the four directions came to the court to meet the Son of Heaven for four years, and generally stated their political opinions, and if they could achieve results after careful experimentation, they were rewarded with chariots, horses, and clothes.

Twelve states were established, and the rivers of each state were dredged.

Inform the people with the same penal law. The offenders who were punished by banishment were forgiven by the five punishments of ink, slash, slash, palace, and Dapi, the cane was used as the punishment of the government, the punishment of the school was used as the punishment of the school, the punishment of atonement was used with brass, the pardon was not punished for unintentional negligence or crimes committed by disasters, and the punishment of those who were harmed by evil for life was not punished. "Be cautious, be cautious, pay attention to the criminal law!"

Zhen Dou recommended co-work, Yao said "no", and tried to be an engineer, and co-work is really evil. The leaders of the princes of the four directions raised the power to control the flood, Yao thought that it was impossible, and the leaders of the princes asked for a trial, but after the trial, there was no performance, so that the people suffered deeply. Sanmiao rebelled many times in the Yangtze River, Huai River, and Jingzhou areas: Shun returned from inspecting the world, and reported to Di Yao, requesting that the Gonggong be sent to Youling to change the Beidi, to exile the Gongdou to Chongshan to change the Nanban, to migrate the Sanmiao to the Sanwei to change Xirong, and to charge the army to Yushan to change the Dongyi. After these four evils were dealt with, everyone in the world was happy and convinced.

Yao got Shun after 70 years on the throne, and after another 20 years he became old, so Shun acted as the Son of Heaven and recommended Shun to Heaven. Emperor Yao retired from the throne and died in twenty-eight years, and the people were very sad, as if their parents had died. Within three years, no music was played in the world to express the memory of Yao.

Yao knew that his son Danzhu was not virtuous and could not pass on the world to him, so he passed it on to Shun in an unconventional way. - "If you pass the world to Shun, the whole world will get benefits, but Danzhu will suffer; Yao (who weighed this for a long time) said, "You can't take the suffering of the whole world to benefit one person." "Finally passed the world to Shun.