Da4 Yu3 controls the Water.

Hello, friends. Today’s content of Chinese for children online lesson is an famous fairy tale. A very longtime ago，during rule of Emperor Yao，the people often met disaster. The rising flood waters．Emperor Yao quickly convened with the leader of every tribe about how to manage the floods, until finally it was Gun whom was unanimously elected to govern the floods. Upon accepting the task, he decided to create mounds of earth to make a dam with which resist the rising floodwaters In the end，the completed dam often burst from the flood，and the suffering and calamity were still as grave as before．There upon Gun’s project to control the water was

deemed a failure. When Emperor Yao learned of this event，he ordered Gun to be executed．

   

Decades later．Yu Shun inherited the kingship of Yao．Once he ascended the throne，he was determined to find a way to control the hoods At this time，the son of Gun，in mandarin class for kids who was taught by Chinese teachers in primary school, it was called Da4 Yu3，and was already an adult. Therefore Emperor Shun appointed Da4 yu3 to continue the project of controlling the floods Initially, like his father，he built similar levees to govern the water．But not long after he finished the construction，the floodwaters rose，breaching the levees．After countess times of being defeated and learning the factors which cause the floods，Da4 yu3 eventually realized that the floodwaters cannot invariably be blocked．But rather knowing the right time to fortify the levees when canals ought to be dredged is the solution. After understanding this reasoning，Da4 yu3 immediately changed his strategy of governing the water．

 

To learn Chinese online for kids lesson, it will let children know that Da4 yo3 surveyed every part of the country, taking note of the tendency of the river. When these routes became clear．Da4 yu3 led his people to construct a drainage canal，clearing a path way for the river, drawing it towards the ocean．In managing the floodwaters，Da4 yu3 worked together with the common people．It is said that he was so busy managing the waters，that once Da4yu3 passed his house three times, but did not go in at any time. This story has been eulogized to the saying “passing the house three times and not entering”. With unremitting in effort，at last Da4 yu3 managed to divert the flood waters from all over the country to the ocean，as his method finally achieved success．Consequently, people once again could cultivate their land with ease, not worrying about the threat of rising waters．

   

In virtue of the accomplishment of controlling the flood mad benefiting the people，in his old age，Emperor Shun passed on the kingship to Da4 Yu3. As a famous emperor in ancient times，after his death he still receives much praise and merit from the Chinese people for contributing to the country’s posterity. According to our Chinese class for kids story of lessons, in Zhe4 jiang1 province’s shao2 xing1 county, Yu Mausoleum turns, at the foot of Mt．Hui4 ji2, people have built a tomb called Yu Mausoleum to commemorate his glorious achievements still to this day, many people visit the Yu Mausoleum expressing great reverence for this famous emperor．

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