What are the myths and stories about the great flood in ancient China?

In China mythology, the most well-known story about floods is Dayu's flood control. According to legend, during the Yao and Shun period, floods in the Central Plains brought endless disasters to the people. In order to eliminate the flood, Yao ordered Gun to control water, but after nine years of water control, Gun made no achievements. After Shun came to power, Yu used guns to control water. Dayu traveled all over the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains, measured every inch of land here, dredged waterways according to the terrain, and finally introduced floods into the East China Sea to solve the floods in the Central Plains.

Besides Dayu's flood control, what other myths and stories are related to floods?

Giant flood of shad

There are also floods in western mythology, and they are more serious. It is recorded in the Old Testament Genesis: "When the Lord saw that human beings had sinned deeply on the earth, he declared that all living things on the earth would be destroyed by floods and all would perish." But Jesus found that there was a righteous Noah among mankind, so he instructed him to build an ark to take refuge. After the ark was built, the flood came. When Noah was six hundred years old, on the 17th of February, all the fountains of the abyss were cracked, and the windows of heaven were opened. It rained heavily on the ground for forty days and nights. The flood lasted for 220 days before it gradually subsided, and only Noah's family survived.

Besides Dayu's flood control, what other myths and stories are related to floods?

Noah's Ark

In addition to these two most popular stories, flood disasters are not uncommon in other myths.

"In the past, the four poles were abolished, and Kyushu was cracked; Heaven does not repeat, and the earth does not contain it; Fire does not go out, water is inexhaustible; Wild animals eat people, while birds prey on the old and the weak. So Nu Wa refined five-color stones to make up the sky, broken claws and four poles, killed the black dragon to help Jizhou, and accumulated reed ash to stop lewd water. " This is the story recorded in "Lan Mingxun of Huainanzi", that is, "Goddess of mending the sky".

Besides Dayu's flood control, what other myths and stories are related to floods?

Nvwa Patches up the Sky

The Maya's holy book "Bobo Wu Jing" also recorded the flood record that the gods angered and punished mankind: the gods created mankind for the first time, but later mankind forgot the existence of the creator, which caused the dissatisfaction of the gods, so the gods decided to destroy mankind with floods.

Similar to Sumerian mythology, Ennier, the king of fengshen and gods, thought that human beings were too noisy, so he released floods, droughts and plagues to destroy human beings, while the kind water god secretly helped human beings through disasters.

The legend of the "great flood" is circulated all over the world. It can be said that with the development of human civilization, even in modern society, flood is still a thorny disaster that human beings need to face.