Kuafu is one of the earliest famous myths in China. It tells the story of Kuafu struggling to catch up with the sun and sleeping in Yu Garden. Kuafu, a giant in ancient myths and legends, is a descendant of Hou Di, the Pluto who lives in the northern slope of Tianshan Mountain. He has two yellow snakes in his ear and two yellow snakes in his hand, chasing the sun. When he arrived in Yugu, the sun was about to set, and he felt thirsty, so he went to drink water from the Yellow River and Weihe River. After he drained the river, his thirst still didn't stop. He wanted to drink the water from the Great Lakes in the north, but he died of thirst before he got there. Kuafu threw away his walking stick when he died, and it suddenly turned into a peach grove full of fresh fruits to quench his thirst for those who later pursued the light. "Dayu governs water"

About 4000 years ago, the Yellow River Basin in China was flooded, and Yao Ming Gungun was responsible for leading and organizing the water control work. The gun uses the strategy of "soil to block water" to control water. After the failure of water control, Gun was presided over by his only son Yu. After accepting the task, Yu first made a thorough investigation of the main mountains and rivers in the country with measuring tools such as rulers and ropes. He found that Longmen Pass was too narrow to pass the flood during the flood season. He also found that the Yellow River was silted up and the flowing water was not smooth. So he established a policy opposite to his father's "blocking", which is called "guiding", that is, dredging the river, widening the throat and letting the flood pass faster. Yu adopted "water control must be smooth, water must be smooth, and it will be led into the sea." The idea of water control is to dig through the high places and dredge the low places. According to the priorities, the governance order was formulated, starting from the area near the capital and then expanding to other places. It is said that Yu went to Tushan County, where his home is located, but he was too busy with flood control to go in and have a look. His wife went to see him at the construction site and was sent back by him. In flood control 13 years, I exhausted my painstaking efforts and physical strength, and finally completed this great cause that went down in history.

Gong Yu moved mountains. "

Taihang Mountain and Wuwangshan (present-day) are 700 miles in Fiona Fang, with a height of seven or eight thousand feet. They were originally in the south of Jizhou, north of the Yellow River. Gong Yu (this person) in Beishan (at the foot of the mountain) is almost 90 years old and lives directly opposite the mountain. Suffering from the congestion in the northern mountainous area, I had to make a detour when I went out, so I called the whole family to discuss and said, "I will try my best to level the steep mountain with you and go all the way to the south of Yuzhou and reach the south bank of Hanshui, ok?" Everyone agreed. His wife questioned him and said, "With your strength, even Quiff Mountain can't be leveled. What can you do with Taihang and Wu Wang? And how to put aside the excavated soil and stones? " They said, "Throw it on the edge of Bohai Sea, to the north of Tibetan soil." So Gong Yu led his three children and grandchildren who could bear the burden (up the mountain), chiseled stones and dug dirt, and transported them to the Bohai Sea with dustpans and baskets. Neighbor Shi Jing's widow has an orphan who is only seven or eight years old. She just started to change her teeth and skipped around to help him. Winter and summer change seasons, and you can go back and forth once. The crooked wise man laughed at the stupid old man and stopped him from doing so, saying, "you are just not smart!" With your remaining years and strength, you can't even move a grass on the mountain. What can you do with mud and stones? " Gong Yu of Beishan sighed and said, "Your heart is so stubborn that you can't understand it. You can't even compare with orphans and widows. Even if I die, I still have a son; Son gives birth to grandson, grandson gives birth to son; A son has a son and a son has a grandson; Children and grandchildren are endless, but mountains do not increase. What are you worried about? " There is nothing to answer about knowing beans in a meandering river. The mountain god who caught the snake heard about it, fearing that he would dig endlessly and report to the Emperor of Heaven. The emperor was moved by Yugong's sincerity. He ordered the two sons of Hercules Kwae to move two mountains, one in the east of Shuofang and the other in the south of Yongzhou. From then on, from the south of Jizhou to the south bank of Hanshui River, there was no mountain barrier.

Jingwei reclamation

In ancient China, a bird named Jingwei tried to fill the sea. Shan Hai Jing describes a bird. Its name is Jingwei. Jingwei is Emperor Yan's favorite daughter. One day, she went to the East China Sea to play, but suddenly a storm hit and she died. The girl became a bird, and her name was "Jingwei Bird". Jingwei bird went to Xishan to get stones and branches, and threw them into the sea again and again, trying to fill up the East China Sea. Tao Yuanming, a poet in the Jin Dynasty, wrote a poem: "Jingwei holds Xiao Mu and will fill the sea." Later, people often used the idiom "jingwei fills the sea" to mean fighting to the end with perseverance according to the established goals.