Stories about the Yellow River Legends, 10 stories about the Yellow River

The 10 stories about the Yellow River are these: Dayu controls the water, Jiang Taigong fishes, Fuxi's creation of hexagrams, Emperor Shun swims in the Yellow River, Jingwei reclamation, borrowing the east wind, Nuwa mends the sky, the Yellow Emperor fights Chiyou, the Hongyan Dam defense battle, and the Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River.

1. Dayu controls the water.

Legend has it that in ancient China, the Yellow River often had floods and disasters in the Xichi Basin, and it was not until Yu controlled the water that it was calmed, which was also one of the achievements of King Yu.

2. Jiang Taigong fishing.

Legend has it that during the Zhou Dynasty, Jiang Taigong fished by the Yellow River, received fishing rods and fishing skills from the Dragon King, and became an outstanding strategist and politician.

3. Fuxi's creation hexagram.

According to legend, the Fuxi clan created the Bagua and the Sixty-four Hexagrams by the Yellow River, which became an important part of the divination and ** culture in ancient China.

4. Emperor Shun swims in the Yellow River.

Legend has it that when Emperor Shun was swimming in the Yellow River, he was touched by the Yellow Dragon, so he received the Mandate of Heaven and became a great emperor of ancient China.

5. Jingwei reclamation.

Legend has it that Jingwei was a bird who constantly threw himself into the Yellow River in order to fill the dusty and auspicious ocean at the mouth of the Yellow River, so that he eventually turned into a bird.

6. Borrow the east wind.

Legend has it that during the Shang Dynasty, in order to pursue the goddess Chang'e, the king of Shang sent the eunuch Shennong to borrow the east wind, but the east wind blew Shennong to the South China Sea, and finally lost Chang'e.

7, Nuwa mends the sky.

Legend has it that Nuwa used colorful stones to fill the sky by the Yellow River, which became an important part of ancient Chinese mythology.

8, the Yellow Emperor fights Chi You.

Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor led the tribes of the Yellow River valley to engage in a fierce war with the Chiyou tribe and finally won the victory.

9. The Battle of Hongyan Dam.

Legend has it that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese Red Army fought a heroic battle to defend the Hongyan Dam by the Yellow River.

10. Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River.

According to legend, Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River is the Jiulong Hukou opened by Dayu when he controlled the water, and it is a natural landscape in the Yellow River Basin. <>

1. The legend of the carp jumping over the dragon gate.

The Dragon Gate is located about 65 kilometers south of Hukou Falls, at the southernmost end of the Jinshan Gorge. To the south of Longmen, the water of the Yellow River in the open and flat Guanzhong Plain suddenly enters the wide riverbed from the narrow Longmen, and the nature of the river has changed greatly.

The formation of Longmen is that Longmen Mountain in the east and Liangshan Mountain in the west each stretch out of the ridge and move closer to each other, forming a narrow mouth gate only 100 meters wide, like a giant pincer, binding the river and forming a turbulent water flow. Whenever the flood season, because the water level in the gorge mouth is high, and out of the canyon, the river valley suddenly widens, and the water level drops suddenly, so the obvious water level difference is formed in Longmen, so there is the saying of "Longmen three water falls".

The story of "carp jumping over the dragon gate" refers to the fall into the water that jumps here. The story is that the little carp is not afraid of dangers and obstacles, and has jumped the gate on the road to Jackie Chan, and those who can jump over it can become a dragon. Only those indomitable little carps can eventually become dragons.

This story has also inspired the descendants of Yan and Huang to fight tenaciously and endlessly for thousands of years. In ancient times, people felt incredible about the formation of this natural wonder of Longmen Gorge, and imagined a gorge mouth that was dug by Dayu, so Longmen was also called "Yu Gate".

2. The story of Dayu's 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.

In the process of Dayu's water control, he left many touching deeds. Legend has it that with the help of the original measuring tools he invented, he traveled up and down the river, using the magic axe to split the dragon gate and Yipu, and chiseled through the stone mountain and the Qingtong Gorge, so that the river water could flow unimpeded. He has been controlling the water for 13 years, passing through the door three times without entering, and even his newborn child has no time to caress him, not afraid of hardship, he is the first soldier, and the hairs on his legs are worn out in labor.

He was the first flood hero in Chinese history to successfully control the floods of the Yellow River.

Carp jumps over the dragon gate! A long time ago, before the Longmen was opened, the flow of the Yihe River was blocked by Zilongmen 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 Burning in Mengjin Chiduanjia, passed through the Luo River, and then followed the Yi River to the place where the Longmen water splashed, but there was no waterway on Longmen Mountain, so 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 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 carp volunteered and said, "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, jumped into the clouds of the middle of the sky at once, and drove 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, fell into the lake south of the mountain, and turned into a giant dragon in the blink of an eye.

When the carp in Shanbei saw this scene, 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. But except for a few who jumped over and turned into dragons, most of them couldn't get by. Anyone who can't jump 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.