Yu the Great
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Yu the Great or Yu the Engineer was a legendary sage-king in ancient China who was credited with "the first successful state efforts at flood control", his establishment of the Xia dynasty, which inau
Yu as depicted by Song-era artist Ma Lin (馬麟), National Palace Museum
King Yu as depicted in Wu Family Shrines in Jiaxiang, Shandong, from the mid 2nd century AD.
Qing dynasty illustration of Yu observing Emperor Shun's divination.
Yu as depicted in the album Portraits of Famous Men c. 1900, housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Xia dynasty
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The Xia dynasty is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese historiography. According to tradition, it was established by the likely legendary figure Yu the Great, after Shun, the last of the Five Emp
Yu the Great
…Engineer was a legendary sage-king in ancient China who was credited with "the first successful state efforts at flood control", his establishment of the Xia dynasty, which inaugurated dynastic rule in China, and for his upright moral character. He figures prominently in the Chinese legend titled "Great Yu Controls…
The geography of the Nine Provinces according to traditional analysis of literary sources before modern archaeological discoveries, which show them to have been greatly inflated
Erlitou jue vessel