Yu the Great, first leader (non-Mythical) to rule over China

the Greet you who controls the waters this is the birth of the Chinese civilization this is also another great Chinese idiom water the most essential element for life on Earth without water nothing would be possible Omega cities around the world are surrounded by Massive bodies of water so the two arteries flowing through China they both originate high up in the Himalayas through the Tibetan plateaus into China's industrial Heartland in the north it's huangjiang or the Yellow River and flowing through southern China is the Young's River or more commonly known today as chongjiang the long river this is the third longest river in the world stretching for over 6 300 kilometers or roughly 4 000 miles the first ancient settlers in China all settled around these two rivers but there was a major issue thousands of years ago flooding was constant life was miserable growing crops consistently was almost impossible population was always under decline because they could not sustain themselves and now comes the daiyu he's here to save the day and save the civilization he is said to be a very hard-working and humble man with high intelligence he spent a decade trying to build dams and dikes to try to control the flooding unfortunately nothing worked at first he worked tirelessly day and night along with the ancient Chinese peasants even sleeping alongside with them at night time eventually his efforts will bear fruition he would develop a system of ancient irrigation canals that's able to control the flow of the river ancient civilization can now finally Thrive under him and finally we have the birth of the very first dynasty the Shia Dynasty so sha actually means summer in China this happened roughly around the 2070 BCE so roughly 4 100 years ago no more constant flooding civilization flourished in ancient China and the Shia Dynasty began to grow and expand population grew past Millions the great you he is the first one to establish a political system and social hierarchy so the idiom diary jewishri this refers to the beginning of the Chinese civilization not mythical gods or Legends the real beginning and life is not possible without water some concluding thoughts I definitely think this guy is real I can't go into too much detail because this happened so long ago so there was no written records or anything this is the before the invasion of paper so most records of him were passed down uh through generations By Word of Mouth I think oftentimes throughout history we often credit uh certain achievements to a single person but there's so much more that goes into it I think he had a lot of help with people around him his inner circle in The Peasants it was them these first people 4 000 years ago they worked tirelessly day and night for over a decade to finally control the flooding to finally light civilizations flourish we all need support from each other at some point in life and I really hope the world leaders today can really take a lesson from you things are going to get a little bit crazy for the next video I'm going to talk about uh how a multidom which is viewed as a God and a Supreme Being China I'm going to talk about how he killed 55 million people in three years it is also a true story thank you guys so much we'll see in the next video [Music]