The Story of Dayu and the Xia Dynasty

This article tells the story of Xia Dynasty .

In order to make it easier for everyone to understand the relationship between the characters, we once again use the relationship diagram to mark the characters, so that everyone can see it clearly at a glance. The father of yu is Gun (the word reads rolling), and the father of the ray is Zhuanxu Emperor , which is Gao Yang. Gao Yang's father is Changyi , and Changyi's father is the founder of the country Huangdi .

Not much to say, let’s look at the relationship diagram:

At that time, the Yellow River was flooded, and the downstream and coastal residents were all affected. Going in and out, frowning. The next day he went to court, he asked the ministers: Who can control the flood in the Yellow River?

So the ministers said in unison: In this living world, only Gun can do it well. Might as well try gun to control water and see the effect.

That's it, Gun passively led a drudgery.

The ray has worked hard by the Yellow River for nine years. The method he adopted is to make up wherever the embankment bursts. Therefore, it is conceivable that the problem of flooding in the Yellow River has not been solved in the end. Stop and wreak havoc everywhere.

At that time, Emperor Yao recommended Shun to rule the world. Shun came to the scene where Gun was managing the Yellow River and saw that the governance of the Yellow River was a complete mess.

Later, the ministers recommended Gun's son Dayu to take over his father's career, because everyone said that Yu was a very talented person, and Yu had no choice but to bite the bullet.

Yu successively learned in detail about his father Gun's experience in managing the Yellow River, inspected the scene of Gun's flood control in the Yellow River in detail, spent a lot of energy on research and judgment, and finally came to the conclusion: The water of the Yellow River cannot be blocked, and it must be dredged first, and the combination of dredging and blocking can manage well. .

So Yu began to sort out and dredge the Yellow River floods step by step according to his own ideas. He thought at night, worked hard during the day, and devoted all his energy to managing the floods. It is said that in order to manage the floods, Yu passed by the door many times without returning home. .

Dayu finally managed the floods in the Yellow River very well, dredging all the flooded places. Not only that, he also used the methods and experience of managing the floods in the Yellow River to manage other large rivers, all of which were successful.

So Shun recommended Yu to inherit the emperor , but Yu avoided it, and recommended Shun's son Shangjun to inherit the throne. All the ministers knew that Shangjun was incapable of becoming the emperor, so Yu accepted the entreaties of the ministers, ascend to the throne.

After Yu toured the world, he died on the way to Kuaiji Mountain. The throne was passed on to Yi. After the three-year national funeral, Yi proposed to let Yu's son Qilai inherit the throne. The ministers knew that Qi was a sage and very capable. .

Because of the history of this period, the throne is generally a cessation system, and it is recognized that whoever is worthy will be the emperor , but this is a rather unexpected one, because Yu's son Qi is indeed very successful, and his ability is outstanding. , so he is more in line with the candidate to inherit the throne, even if he is Yu's son.

did not expect such a change, which triggered a chain reaction. From then on, sanctioned and became an inheritance system. After

Kai died, he handed his position to his son Taikang . This was the first time that he was so shameless. He pushed his relatives instead of sages, and gave the right of inheritance to his son. , his son Xiang inherited the throne. After the death of Emperor Xiang, his son Shaokang inherited the throne. After Shaokang died, his son Yu was in charge of the world, and his son Huai became the emperor.After Huai died, his son Mang ascended the throne. After Mang died, his son Xie became emperor. After Xie died, his son did not drop to inherit the throne. His younger brother Hu Hu became emperor. After Hu died, his own son Hu became emperor. After ascending to the emperor, after his death, his unsubmissive son Kongjia inherited the throne. A very interesting thing happened to

Kong Jia: During the reign of

Kong Jia, he liked to believe in ghosts and gods , and he was reckless and promiscuous, indulging in music, dance and wine. Kong Jia was very superstitious in ghosts and gods, and liked raising dragons. At that time, there were two dragons, one female and one male. Later, and one dragon died. Liu Lei, who raised dragons, secretly chopped the dragon into meat sauce and made soup for Kong Jia to drink. , Kong Jia said it was delicious. Later asked Liu tired where did the other dragon go? Liu Lei did not dare to speak, so scared that he fled to Lu County overnight.

After Kong Jia's death, his son Gao inherited the throne. After Gao's death, his son Fa became emperor, and his son Lugui became emperor. Lu Gui is Jie. We are familiar with this name. The people were unbearable. In the end, there was a man named Tang, who was very influential in the princes and . All the princes expressed their willingness to submit to Tang. So Tang led the princes and destroyed Xia Jie through the battle of Mingtiao. The interesting thing about

is that Jie had imprisoned Tang in Xiatai before, but unfortunately he was released later. Just like Xiang Yu did not kill Liu Bang at the Hongmen Banquet, after Tang was free, he reorganized his forces and killed Jie. Jie said when he was about to die: The thing I regret most is that I didn't kill him at Xiatai Soup, so that it has this end today. History is always similar. Later, Xiang Yu repeated the same mistakes and took the old path of Jie, so that was beleaguered and committed suicide, which makes people sigh.

Such an extremely sighing and embarrassing tragic ending tells us an extremely profound and bloody lesson, this bloody lesson, summed up, just like the movie " New Shaolin Temple " played by Andy Lau , Nicholas Tse, Wu Jing It's the same sentence: When you have the upper hand, if you don't start, you will be the one who will die.

A lesson from the past, a teacher for the future, this may be the real meaning of reading history.