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Yu the Great 大禹
Song-era depiction of Yu
King of the Xia dynasty
Predecessor
Shun
Successor
Qi
Died
Mount Kuaiji
Spouse
Lady Tushan
Issue
Qi of Xia
Father
Gun
Mother
Nüzhi
Chinese name
Chinese
大禹
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Dà Yǔ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Dah Yeu
Wade–Giles
Ta4 Yü3
IPA
[tâ ỳ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Daaih Yúh
Jyutping
Daai6 Jyu5
IPA
[taːi˨ jyː˩˧]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Tāi-í/Tāi-ú
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)
*lˤat-sɢʷraʔ
Yu the Great (Chinese: 大禹; pinyin: Dà Yǔ) or Yu the Engineer was a legendary king in ancient China who was famed for "the first successful state efforts at flood control,"[1] his establishment of the Xia dynasty which inaugurated dynastic rule in China, and his upright moral character.[2][3] He figures prominently in the Chinese legend titled "Great Yu Controls the Waters" (大禹治水; Dà Yǔ zhì shuǐ). Yu and other "sage-kings" of ancient China were lauded for their virtues and morals by Confucius and other Chinese teachers.[4] He is one of the few Chinese monarchs who is posthumously honored with the epithet "the Great".
There is no contemporary evidence of Yu's existence as traditionally attested in the Records of the Grand Historian. Yu is said to have ruled as sage-king during the late 3rd millennium BCE, which predates the oracle bone script used during the late Shang dynasty—the oldest known form of writing in China—by nearly a millennium.[5] Yu's name was not inscribed on any artifacts which were produced during the proposed era in which he lived, nor was it inscribed on the later oracle bones; his name was first inscribed on vessels which date back to the Western Zhou period (c. 1045–771 BCE).
^Ivanhoe, Philip J.; Van Norden, Bryan W. (2005). Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. p. 383. ISBN 0-87220-781-1. OCLC 60826646.
^Mungello, David E. (2009). The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800 (3 ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 97. ISBN 9780742557987. Archived from the original on 2023-04-25. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
^Dai & Gong (2003), p. 40
^Dai & Gong (2003), p. 36
^Underhill, Anne P., ed. (2013). A Companion to Chinese Archaeology. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 317. ISBN 978-1-4443-3529-3. Archived from the original on 2023-04-25. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
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