page_title: Great Flood (China)
section_title: Great Yu controls the flood
hierarchical_section_title: Great Flood (China) / Narrative / Great Yu controls the flood
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 水资源与水电工程科学国家重点实验室 ；大禹治水 English: The National Laboratory for Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science at Wuhan University's main campus. The building is decorated with a relief entitled “Yu the Great controls the waters" （大禹治水）and depicting Yu the Great, with his trusty turtle, leading the best reprsentatives of China's people in their struggle with the flood. The piece of art is dated 2005.
context_page_description: The Great Flood of Gun-Yu, also known as the Gun-Yu myth, was a major flood event in ancient China that allegedly continued for at least two generations, which resulted in great population displacements among other disasters, such as storms and famine. People left their homes to live on the high hills and mounts, or nest on the trees. According to mythological and historical sources, it is traditionally dated to the third millennium BCE, or about 2300-2200 BC, during the reign of Emperor Yao.
  However, archaeological evidence of an outburst flood on the Yellow River, comparable to similar severe events in the world in the past 10,000 years, has been dated to about 1900 BC, and is suggested to have been the basis for the myth.
  Treated either historically or mythologically, the story of the Great Flood and the heroic attempts of the various human characters to control it and to abate the disaster is a narrative fundamental to Chinese culture.
context_section_description: Yu tried a different approach to the project of flood control; which in the end having achieved success,  earned Yu renown throughout Chinese history, in which the Gun-Yu Great Flood is commonly referred to as "Great Yu Controls the Waters" (Chinese: 大禹治水; pinyin: Dà Yǔ Zhì Shuǐ). Yu's approach seems to have involved an approach more oriented toward drainage and less towards containment with dams and dikes. According to the more fancily embellished versions of the story it was also necessary for him to subdue various supernatural beings as well as recruit the assistance of others, for instance a channel-digging dragon and a giant mud-hauling tortoise (or turtle).
caption: Yu the Great and his human and chelonian associates, fighting the flood. Relief outside the Water Resources and Hydro Power Lab, Wuhan University (2005)
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