Everyone knows that "Dayu controlled the water", but which river did he control?

"If you don't see it, the water of the Yellow River will come up from the sky and rush to the sea never to return." Hello everyone, the poem I just read is a famous line by Li Bai in "I will enter the wine without you seeing it".

The rolling Yellow River has witnessed the development story of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. It is ancient and charming. However, in ancient times, the Yellow River often flooded, and the people always suffered from floods, so There are many stories about the management of the Yellow River in history.

Statue of Dayu

For example, our ancestor Dayu spent thirteen years leading the people in order to regulate the Yellow River. At that time, Dayu's flood control has become a legend that has been passed down through the ages. But just because it is a legend, many people have doubted Dayu's flood control.

An expert named Sun Weidong from the Guangzhou Geochemical Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences put forward different opinions on Dayu's flood control.

Dayu Controlled Floods

He said that he came up with this view by consulting the description of the origin of rivers in the Classic of Mountains and Seas and comparing it with China's topographic map. : "The river where Dayu controlled the water should have a terrain that is high in the south and low in the north. Such geographical features are really rare in China, but if you put the various descriptions of the ancients in the Nile River, it makes sense. Got it."

So he believed that Yu the Great controlled the Nile River.

After this view was announced, netizens immediately went into a frenzy. They all felt that this expert’s statement was too outrageous. Some even commented sarcastically: “It’s really stupid. The cave is wide open, so why don’t you say it’s the Amazon River that’s being tamed?”

Someone joked: “This expert is wrong. In fact, Dayu tamed all the river systems in the world at that time. "

The most interesting thing is that some netizens shouted to Professor Sun: Professor Sun, you are right, the Nile River was controlled by Dayu, but the river he controlled most was the Milky Way, otherwise Now this Cowherd and Weaver Girl has long been washed away by the flood of the Milky Way...

Of course the comments from netizens are very humorous, but everyone knows that Dayu's hometown is Anyi, Shanxi (this summer County), separated from the Nile River by hundreds of thousands of miles.

Portrait of Dayu

It is said that Dayu passed through the house three times without entering. So it is impossible for him to run from the Nile River to Shanxi and back and forth three times, right?

Moreover, the course of the Yellow River has changed many times over thousands of years. It may be very different from previous descriptions. Therefore, many netizens believe that experts are proposing that Dayu controlled floods. The view of the Nile River was relatively one-sided and did not fully integrate all aspects of historical factors, so it was treated as a joke by netizens.

Cartoon portrait of Dayu

In my opinion, we should maintain enough respect for history and traditional culture that have been recognized and accepted by others, unless we have already obtained Rigorous argumentation and recognition from the academic community, and don’t just put forward some strange ideas that are unconventional.

Of course, Professor Sun’s view of the Nile River is also a speculation. He did not conclude that the Nile River was definitely the one that Yu the Great conquered. Academically, of course, anyone is allowed to put forward different opinions, so for Professor Sun’s ridicule is actually unnecessary. Netizens’ reactions to his views also illustrate the need to be more cautious when proposing different academic views.