What is the difference between flood control in Greek mythology and flood control in China?

Because it was the first civilization of the two rivers and the Yellow River often flooded, some water control plots were mythologized.

Why are there frequent floods in both Chinese and Western mythology? Is it the same show? The prehistoric flood is a common legend of many peoples in the world, and it has been found in the research of anthropologists and mythologists that in early civilizations such as Mesopotamia, Greece, India, China, and Maya, there are legends and memories of the flood that destroyed the world, and thus produced the creation gods and flood heroes with characteristics from all walks of life.

Myths are fascinating and ever-changing, and the stories of the Great Flood have become increasingly complex over the course of history, with many of them adding themes of struggle and reinvention of humanity. Fraser, a famous British anthropologist and ethnologist, once pointed out that among more than 130 Indian races in North, Central and South America, myths with the theme of the Great Flood are widespread.

After the birth of writing, almost every civilization depicted the horrors of the Great Flood. The earliest account of the Flood is found in Sumerian cuneiform writing of mud bricks.

The Sumerian clay tablets before 3,500 B.C. say: The situation was unacceptably terrifying, the wind was screaming terribly in the air, everyone was desperately fleeing, fleeing to the mountains without caring for anything, everyone thought that the war had begun; In the Old Testament, the Book of Genesis describes the Flood as follows: Jehovah, seeing the great sin of the earth, declared that he would use the flood to destroy all living creatures on the earth, all of whom would not die.

However, God commanded the righteous Noah to build a giant ark to leave mankind alive;

In the Sumerian civilization classic "The Epic of Gilgamesh", it is said that the flood was accompanied by a storm and flooded all the high mountains on the continent almost overnight, and only those who lived in the mountains and fled to the mountains survived; In the Aztec civilization's "Chimar Popoca's Painted Character Book": The heavens approached the earth, and in one day, all the people were wiped out, and the mountains were hidden in the flood;

The sacred text of the Mayan civilization, the Bobowu Sutra, also says: This is a devastating destruction. A major flood. People drowned in the slimy rain that fell from the sky.

In ancient Chinese legends, the cause of the great flood was that Gonggong angrily hit Buzhou Mountain, and the water god Gonggong and Zhuan Gong had a war, and after Gonggong was defeated by Zhuan, he was angry and broke Buzhou Mountain, which supported the sky, so that the sky collapsed and the flood was monstrous. Many ancient Chinese classics are involved, so recorded:

The flood was terrible, and the soil was stolen to annihilate the flood. ("The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Sea Chapter") when Rao, the world is still not peaceful. The flood flowed sideways and flooded the world; Water retrograde, flooding China; In the past, the ancient dragon gate was not opened, Lu Liang was not developed, the river came out of Mengmen, overflowing, there were no hills, fertile land, plains, and high fu were all destroyed, and the name of the sun was Hongshui ("Mencius Teng Wengong").

Modern science, on the other hand, has tried to explain the cause of the Great Flood, which may be caused by five aspects: the theory of alien planetary impact, the theory of volcanic eruptions, the theory of abnormal axis of the earth, the theory of geological changes in northern latitudes, and the theory of tidal locking.

Ancient China was an agrarian civilization, in the agrarian civilization required the wind and rain to be smooth, so that agriculture can have a bumper harvest, in reality there are many floods affecting the agricultural harvest phenomenon, so such a requirement is reflected in the myth that man defeated the flood.

Ancient Greece was a city-state, these city-states were open and expansive, and most of their means of subsistence were exchanged between various city-states, while the agricultural civilization was closed, and food could only be self-sufficient. According to the research of relevant scholars, the grain ** in ancient Greece was very developed. Whether in China, in the West or around the world, there are legends of the Great Flood in ancient times.

In China, the legend of the Great Flood goes like this: during the Yao Shun period, the world was flooded and there was an ocean everywhere. Floods have brought great devastation to people's lives.

So, Emperor Shun ordered Yu's father, Kun, to control the water. Kun's method of controlling the water was improper, and he blindly plugged and blocked it, and as a result, the more he controlled the flood, the worse it became, and he was severely punished by Shun and lost his head. Then Emperor Shun used Kun's son Yu to control the water.

Yu summed up the lessons of his father's failure to control the water, changed the passive method of blocking, and used the method of dredging and guiding, that is, if there is a flood, dig a ditch to drain the flood. It uses much less force than the cang, but it achieves very good results. It is said that Dayu has been controlling the water for 13 years, and he has passed by his own door many times, but he has not gone home to see.

Dayu succeeded in controlling the water, promoted the development of production, and became the leader of the tribe.

In the West, there is a rumor of the Great Flood.

Because the ancient flood caused a big problem, the scientific and technological means were limited, and people hoped to control the flood.

Hehe! Because the West is more pragmatic! The Flood Beast is not so vulnerable!

Before the emergence of human rights in ancient Greece, it was theocratic rule, and democracy was different

Because Westerners have big ships - Noah's Ark.

Because the Chinese have a lot of thinking power.

Because the history of Chinese civilization is earlier than that of Greece, Greek mythology has not been traced back to that era of monstrous floods, and Greece is a mountainous country, with fewer large plains, and floods are less harmful to Greece.