Folk tales about the Yellow River and historical figures at speed

In the second year of Yuanfeng (109 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty personally came to the scene to inspect and block the Yellow River gourd breach.

During the Song Dynasty, there was a time when the Yellow River was flooded and broke a pontoon bridge outside the city of Hezhongfu.

Eight large iron oxen on both sides of the Yellow River, which were used to tie up the pontoon bridge, were also washed away by the flood and sunk in the silt at the bottom of the river.

The flood waters receded, and the pontoon bridge had to be rebuilt.

But when the heavy iron oxen were stuck at the bottom of the river, what strong man could scoop them up one by one? People were talking, and a monk said, "Let me try."

The Iron Ox was swept away by the water, and I told the water to send them back.

The monk first asked someone familiar with the nature of the water to dive to the bottom of the water and find out where the eight iron oxen sank.

Then two large wooden boats were prepared, and the cabins were filled with mud and sand, and rowed to the place where the iron ox had sunk.

When the boat had come to a halt, he had the two boats tied side by side tightly, and a shelf of sturdy timber was built across the two boats.

Then he asked someone who was familiar with the nature of the water to dive to the bottom of the water with a very thick rope, and tied one end of the rope firmly to the iron ox, and the other end of the rope was tied to a shelf between the two large boats.

The preparations are done.

The monk asked the sailors to work together to shovel all the sediment from the boat into the Yellow River.

The mud and sand in the boat slowly decreased, the hull slowly floated upward, and the rope that held the iron ox tighter and tighter.

The boat relied on the buoyancy of the water to pull the iron oxen up from the mud little by little.

The mud and sand on the boat were shoveled, and the iron ox left the bottom of the river.

The monk was not in a hurry to get the iron ox onto the boat, but asked the sailors to row the boat to the shore with all their might, and then let many people work together to drag the iron ox in the water to the shore.

In this way, the monk dragged back the eight heavy iron oxen one by one.

This monk's name was Huai Bing, and he was an outstanding engineer at that time.

Dayu controls the water:

Dayu water control (Cangyu water control) is the historical story of ancient China, the period of three emperors and five emperors, the Yellow River flooded, Kun, Yu father and son were ordered by Yao, Shun two emperors, Ren Chongbo and Xia Bo, responsible for water control.

Dayu led the people to fight against the floods in the natural disaster and finally won the victory. In the face of the surging flood, Dayu learned a lesson from the failure of Kun to control the water and changed"Blocked"to channel the floods, showing that he has the ingenuity to lead the people to overcome difficulties; In order to control the flood, Dayu has been fighting with the people for many years, ignoring personal interests"Three times through the door without entering"。Dayu has been controlling water for 13 years, exhausted his hard work and physical strength, and finally completed the great cause of water control.

Dayu also naturally became the leader of the Yanhuang tribe because of the credit of water control, and later Dayu's son Qi established the first official dynasty in Chinese history: Xia.

It is said that during the reign of Emperor Yao, floods often occurred in the Yellow River basin. 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.