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Chinese: The Great Flood of Gun-Yu, where Yu the Great controlled the floods.
Chinese Mythology (Great Flood of Gun-Yu): A myth about a great flood during the reign of Emperor Yao, controlled by Yu the Great, who eventually founded the Xia Dynasty.
12,800 Years Ago
Theory
Unified Catastrophe Theory
Evidence: Chinese legends of the Gun-Yu flood describe a prolonged period of flooding managed by the hero Yu, who eventually controlled the waters.
Era of the Great Floods
The Great Flood of Gun-Yu (Chinese: 鯀禹治水), also known as the Gun-Yu myth, was a major flood in ancient China that allegedly continued for at least two generations, which resulted in great population displacements among other disasters, such as storms and famine.