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
Dynasties of China
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For most of its history until the 20th century, China consisted of one or several dynastic kingdoms or states under the rule of hereditary monarchs. Beginning with the establishment of a system of dyn
Yu the Great
…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 Waters" (大禹治水; Dà Yǔ zhì shuǐ). Yu and…
A photograph of the Xuantong Emperor, widely considered to be the last legitimate monarch of China, taken in AD 1922
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