Yu the Great

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title: Yu the Great
text: Yu the Great or Yu the Engineer was a legendary king 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". Yu and other sage-kings of ancient China were lauded for their virtues and morals by Confucius and other Chinese teachers. He is one of the few Chinese
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description: Xia Dynasty king and founder
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_the_Great
date created: 2004-04-04T20:14:42Z
date modified: 2024-09-08T18:16:20Z
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