The myths and stories of the Yellow River are about the Yellow River

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Myths and legends about the Yellow River.

First, Dayu water control:

Legend has it that during the reign of Emperor Yao, floods in the Yellow River basin were frequent. In order to stop the flooding and protect agricultural production, Emperor Yao once convened a meeting of tribal leaders to solicit water control experts to quell the floods. Kun was recommended to take charge of this work.

After accepting the task, Kun used embankments to block the water and make a city of three people, that is, to use simple embankments to enclose the residential area to prevent flooding, but after nine years without success, he was finally banished to Hayama and died. After Emperor Shun succeeded to the throne, he appointed Kun's son Yu to control the water. Yu summed up his father's experience in water control, and changed the method of "encircling and blocking obstacles" to "dredging and channeling stagnation", which is to use the natural trend of water flowing from high to low to dredge the congested river along the terrain.

Floodwaters were channeled into dredged rivers, depressions, or lakes, and then connected to the seas, thus calming the floods and allowing people to move back to Pingchuan from the highlands to live and engage in agricultural production. Later, Yu became the first king of the Xia Dynasty, and was called "Shen Yu" and praised to future generations.

Second, the carp jumps the dragon gate:

A long, long time ago, before the Longmen Gate was opened, the Yishui flow here was blocked by the Longmen Mountain, and a large lake accumulated in the south of the mountain.

The carp living in the Yellow River heard that Longmen had a good scenery and wanted to go sightseeing. They set out from the Yellow River in Mengjin, Henan, through the Luo River, and then along the Yi River to the place where the Longmen water splashed, but there was no waterway on Longmen Mountain, and they could not go up, so they had to gather at the foot of the North Mountain of Longmen. "I have an idea, how about we jump over this Longmen Mountain?

A beautiful big red carp said to everyone, "How can you jump so high?" "If you don't jump well, you'll fall to your death!" The partners couldn't make up their minds.

The big red carp volunteered, "I'll jump first, give it a try." I saw that it exerted all its strength from half a mile away, like an arrow off the string, leaped forward, and jumped into the clouds of the sky at once, driving the clouds and rain in the air forward.

A cloud of heavenly fire chased after it and burned off its tail. It endured the pain, continued to leap forward, and finally crossed Longmen Mountain and fell into the lake in the south of the mountain. When the carp in the north of the mountain saw that the tail of the big red carp was burned by the fire, they were so frightened that they shrank together, and they didn't dare to take this risk anymore.

At this time, a huge dragon suddenly descended from the sky and said, "Don't be afraid, I am your companion Big Red Carp, because I have jumped over the dragon gate and become a dragon, and you must also jump bravely!"Hearing these words, the carp were encouraged, and began to jump Longmen Mountain one by one.

However, except for a few who jumped over and turned into dragons, most of them couldn't get by. Anyone who can't jump over the fairy road and falls from the air will have a black scar on his forehead. To this day, this black scar still grows on the forehead of the Yellow River carp.

Legend has it that a long, long time ago, there was a river god in the Yellow River, and people called him Hebo. He Bo stood on the bank of the Yellow River. Looking at the rolling waves coming from the west, and rushing and jumping to the east, he said excitedly;"The Yellow River is so big, there is no river in the world that can compare with it.

I'm the biggest god of water!Someone told him, "Your words are not right, there is a place called Beihai on the east side of the Yellow River, and that is really big."

He Bo said: "I don't believe it, no matter how big the Beihai is, can it be bigger than the Yellow River?"And the man said:

Not to mention a single Yellow River, even if the water of several Yellow Rivers flows into the Beihai, it is not enough to pretend to be it. He Bo stubbornly said: "I haven't seen Beihai, I don't believe it."

The man was helpless and told him, "If you have a chance to go and see Beihai, you will understand what I am saying." He Bo came to the mouth of the Yellow River downstream, suddenly his eyes lit up, the sea god was smiling to welcome his arrival, Hebo looked around, only to see the North Sea a vast ocean, boundless, he looked at it blankly for a while, and said to Beihai Ruo with deep feelings

As the saying goes, if you only know some truths, you think that no one can compare to yourself, and that's me. If I hadn't seen the vast Beihai with my own eyes today, I would have thought that the Yellow River is incomparable in the world!In that way, will it not be laughed at forever by those who are knowledgeable?