In ancient times, there was a man named Feng Yi in Huayin General Township. He feels uncomfortable farming, but he is bent on becoming an immortal. He heard that people can become immortals after drinking the juice of daffodils for one hundred days. So I looked everywhere for daffodils.
Before Dayu harnessed water, the Yellow River flowed to the Central Plains. There is no fixed channel, it flows everywhere and is often flooded. There are seven strands and eight roads on the ground, and the branches in the ditch are all yellow river water. Feng Yi ran around looking for daffodils, often crossing, crossing and dealing with the Yellow River. Ninety-nine days passed in the blink of an eye, and then I found a daffodil and sucked the juice of the daffodil for a day, so I could become an immortal. Feng Yi was so proud that he crossed the Yellow River and went to a small village to look for daffodils. The water here is not deep. Feng Yi waded across the river and reached the middle of it. Suddenly, the river rose. He panicked, slipped, fell into the Yellow River and was drowned alive.
After Feng Yi's death, she was full of grievances and resentments and hated the Yellow River, so she went to the Jade Emperor to sue the Yellow River. The Jade Emperor was also annoyed when he heard that the Yellow River was undisciplined and wandering around, endangering the people. Seeing that Feng Yi had been sucking the juice of daffodils for ninety-nine days, it was time to become an immortal. He asked Feng Yi if he would be the water god of the Yellow River and govern it. Feng Yi was overjoyed. Full of promises. Now I can realize my dream of becoming an immortal, and secondly I can avenge my drowning.
Feng Yi became the water god of the Yellow River and was called Hebo. He has never been involved in water control, and suddenly assumed the responsibility of managing the Yellow River, helpless and worried. What should we do? I have no magic weapon, so I have to ask the Jade Emperor for advice. The Jade Emperor told him that to manage the Yellow River well, we must first find out the water conditions of the Yellow River and draw a river map. Based on the river map of the Yellow River, it will be much easier to control the Yellow River.
Hebo, according to the instructions of the Jade Emperor, was bent on drawing a river map. He went to his hometown first and wanted to ask the villagers for help. Everyone in the village hated his idleness and his work, and no one answered him. He found the old man in the village and expressed his great ambition to govern the Yellow River. When the old man saw that he was now a fairy and wanted to do something good for the people, he promised to help him. From then on, Hebo and later old people came and went in the rain, wading through mountains and rivers to see the Yellow River water regime. After running for several years, the old man was tired. After the old man only went back, the rest of Hebo continued to check the water situation along the Yellow River. When we parted, the old man repeatedly told Hebo that the director should go all the way and not give up halfway. After drawing the map, he began to manage the Yellow River, and there was not enough manpower. He persuaded the villagers to help.
It is a hard job to check the water regime and draw a river map. By the time Hebo finished drawing the river map, he was old and weak. Hebo looked at the river map, where the Yellow River is deep and shallow; Where it is easy to explode, it is easy to explode; Where to dig and where to block; Where the water can be cut off and where the flood can be discharged are clearly drawn. I can only sigh that I have no strength to manage the Yellow River according to the map, which is very sad. Hebo thought that one day someone would come to harness the Yellow River. It will be worthwhile to give him the river map then.
Hebo spent his old age under the Yellow River and never appeared again. Unexpectedly, the Yellow River overflowed again and again. People know that the Jade Emperor sent Hebo to control water, but they didn't see him. They all scold Hebo for not doing his duty, regardless of whether people live or die.
The old man hasn't seen Hebo for several years after waiting for him every day in his hospital bed. He is uneasy about managing the Yellow River and wants to find Hebo. His son's name is Yi, and he shot every shot. No matter what the old man says, Yi won't let him go to Hebo. Later, the old man did not listen to his son's dissuasion. As a result, he met a breach in the Yellow River, was washed away and drowned, and even the body was not found. Hou Yi hated Hebo's guts and gnashed his teeth, saying that Hebo would be shot sooner or later.
Later, Dayu came out to control water, and Hebo decided to give him the map of the Yellow River.
On this day, Hebo heard that Dayu came to the Yellow River with an axe and a sword to avoid water, so he came out from the bottom with a river map to look for Dayu. Hebo and Dayu have never met before, and neither of them knows each other. Hebo walked for a long time and was so tired that he wanted to have a rest. He saw a young man crossing the river. This young man is a hero. He must be Dayu. Hebo shouted and asked, "Hello, who are you?"
The young man on the other side is not Dayu, but Hou Yi. He looked up, and on the other side of the river, a saint-like old man was asking loudly, "Who are you?"
Hebo said loudly, "I'm Hebo. Are you Dayu? "
When Hou Yi heard that it was Hebo, he immediately rushed to his heart and sneered, "I am Dayu." Said the bow and arrow, don't ask, don't indiscriminate, "sou" an arrow, hit Hebo's left eye. Hebo pulled an arrow on his eye, and he was sweating with pain. He cursed in his heart: "Damn prison, how unreasonable!" The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he tore up the water map. Just then, there was a loud shout: "Hebo! Don't tear the picture. " Hebo barely looked at it with his right eye. On the other side, a man in a hat stopped Hou Yi. This man is Dayu. He knew that Hebo had painted a picture of the Yellow River and was going to ask Hebo for advice. Hou Yi pushed Dayu away and tried to draw a bow and arrow. Dayu grabbed him desperately and told Hebo about the hardships of painting. Hou Yi regretted his recklessness and shot Hebo in the left eye.
Hou Yi and Dayu crossed the river together. Hou Yi admitted his mistake to Hebo. Hebo knew that Hou Yi was the old man's son and didn't blame him. Dayu said to Hebo, "I'm Dayu, and I've come to ask you for advice on how to manage the Yellow River."
Hebo said: "My heart and blood and the method of river management are all on this picture, and I will give them to you now."
Look at Dayu's exhibition map, which is dense and dense, and draws the water situation of the Yellow River clearly. Dayu was extremely happy. He wants to thank Hebo. Looking up, Hebo jumped into the Yellow River and disappeared.
Dayu got the hydrological map of the Yellow River and kept it around the clock. According to the instructions on the map, he finally managed to control the Yellow River.
Folklore: (1778— 1840) The word Hui, whose name is Park Garden, was born in hun yuan, Shanxi Province (now hun yuan, Shanxi Province). In the twenty-first year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 18 16), he served as the decree of Xihua County, supplementing the decree of Ningling County. Later, he served as magistrate, magistrate, political envoy and protector. In the 15th year of Daoguang (A.D. 1835), he served as the river chief of Hedong (now Shandong, Henan). He is a generation of honest officials, a powerful and innovative expert in river management, and has made important contributions to the ancient water conservancy in China.
Li Yumei's greatest achievement in his life was harnessing the Yellow River. When Li Yumei arrived, Ningling was flooded by the Yellow River, and the city walls collapsed, resulting in the death of countless people and animals. In the face of surging yellow water, Li Yumei is not afraid. He took off his official robe, dressed in plain clothes, risked his life to personally check the danger at the breach, and led the people of the county to block the breach of the Yellow River with Chinese fir pole and iron pot. After the river passed, he wrote to the court to exempt the imperial grain miscellaneous tax, and at the same time organized the masses to dredge the river and renovate the farmland, so that the people's production and life could be quickly restored and developed.
Li Yumei worked in Ningling for nearly three years, observing people's feelings and managing water well, and was later transferred to Hedong Prefecture. Li Yumei pays attention to investigation and study, often patrols and inspects along the river, goes deep into the masses, and understands the crux and experience of harnessing the Yellow River. In the meantime, according to local conditions in practice, we created the experience of "replacing' scooping' with bricks and building dams by throwing bricks". In the past, the method of "blocking" (that is, putting weeds and sand into sacks) has been used to build dams in Henan Province. Through exploration, Li Yumei found that building a dam with bricks can not only effectively prevent floods, but also save 32,000 taels of silver every year. At that time, the big bricks used in river engineering were oval, each weighing about 10 kg, and there were round holes in the bricks, which could be tied with ropes for easy repair and used for dam construction. This is an innovation of the Yellow River water-saving project. Until 1949, the Yellow River Affairs Department also set up a brick factory in Kaifeng, specializing in firing river bricks to make up for the shortage of stone materials. Practice has proved that brick replacement is successful. Li Yumei vigorously promoted this successful experience in harnessing the Yellow River and wrote a monograph "Completion of Brick Dam in Qin Li Palace", which provided beneficial experience for China's water conservancy construction. "Li's Chronicle of Public Office" records: "After five years of public office, there will be no disaster in the great river." From Banzhangzhuang, Wu Yang to Sunjiadi, the old brick dam with a total length of15km was preserved until the eve of the founding of New China.
On weekdays, Li Yumei has a map of water control in his heart. He knows the height, width, depth and velocity of the river like the back of his hand. Whenever a storm comes, he immediately reaches a dangerous place. In the event of a flood, he can personally direct the rescue and subdue the flood, so he is very loved by the local people. During his tenure, there were few floods in Hedong area. Because of his honesty and courage to enforce the law, he violated the powerful and was framed. Later, he fell ill and died in February in the twentieth year of Daoguang (AD 1840) at the age of 62. When his coffin was transported from Henan to Shanxi, the people along the way shed tears and sent it thousands of miles away. Many officials "also smelled tears".
In the Qing Dynasty, he paid special attention to the flood control of the Yellow River. Emperor Kangxi once lamented that "the ebb and flow of rivers maintains the crown, and whether the people's hearts are related to the Qing Dynasty". Yong Zhengdi once personally commanded the Yellow River in Wu Zhi. Therefore, Li Yumei was named Prince Taibao by the emperor, and posthumous title was called "diligent". Daoguang also made sacrifices and inscriptions, and made sacrifices and burials, and entered the official temple. The officials and the people thought it was enshrined in the temple and added the title "King of River Patrol". Today, in Hunyuan, Shanxi, there is also a large tomb built by Daoguang for Li Yumei, which is called "Li Jia Tomb". After Li Yumei's death, the people of Ningling worshipped him as the "King of the River" in order to thank him for his contribution and great achievements in harnessing the Yellow River, and built the King Li Temple for him in Dongguan, the county seat, for worship in the Spring and Autumn Period and for worship from generation to generation. Coincidentally, since the self-built King Li Temple, the Yellow River has never flooded Ningling County.