China’s Flood Myth EXPLAINED

[Applause] the myth of a great flood has been passed down in the western tradition for Millennia the Book of Genesis in the Bible records that upon seeing how wicked and evil humans had become God decided to cleanse the world he made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights flooding the Earth with people scrambling for High Ground to save themselves but the water kept on Rising and yeah I don't know why they're all naked I mean maybe people just didn't wear clothes in those days although the waters wiped out civilization God had appointed a savior the one man whose heart was with God and hadn't turned to wickedness Noah understood the divine plan even when others doubted he destroys all only to start again so Noah built a massive Ark to preserve his family and two of every species of animal and ride out the great flood starting civilization a new when it was over the traditional biblical date for this flood is around 2,350 BC well guess what China also has a story of a great flood and this flood is supposed to have happened during the Reigns of the legendary Emperors Yao and shun somewhere around the same time around 2,300 to 2,200 BC is the estimate which when you're dealing with something 4,000 years ago 100 years could easily be the margin for error so basically it's the same time so was it the same flood well most probably yes and in this video we are going to look at the fascinating circumstances around China's great flood and their savior who came to the rescue this is China's flood myth explained and this video is brought to you by purong but more on that later so in China their great flood happened during the Reigns of the Great Sage Emperors Yao and shrin it started during Yao's Reign both the Yi and yellow river valleys flooded as is recorded in the Shi during the time of ya flood waters overflowed throughout the land the torrent covered mountains and Hills inflicting sorrow on people in the low-lying areas the Chinese do have a long tradition of viewing disasters such as floods droughts and famines as warnings from the gods or signs that the Mandate of Heaven or tening was being withdrawn often natural disasters abounded near the end of one Dynasty and the beginning of a new one and the guy who eventually saved China did come to a realization that if you exercise virtuous governance the gods would assist you but we'll get to that later so Yao sought someone to control the water and his officials known as the four mountains recommended a man named G now Yao apparently knew this guy and didn't think too highly of him but listened to the recommendation and went with him anyway it is recorded in the Shi thus Yao listened to the four mountains and used gun to tame the waters G tried for 9 years and the water didn't stop his efforts were fruitless in some accounts he is portrayed as a trickster Loki like character he even stole this Supernatural self-expanding soil from Heaven to try and control the flood but it failed to work and angered the gods so management of the Empire got hard and Yao sought more help this time the four mountains recommended shrin who was a distant relative of Yao and a descendant of the yellow Emperor shrin became the emperor and toward the country upon seeing that gon's efforts of controlling the water were useless he exiled him to Feather Mountain or youan to die but on that mountain gwun had a son now the shanhai or classic of mountains and seas says that this son was born from the belly of gw's decomposing Cor cors which is wild but I mean The Monkey King was born out of a rock so for Chinese mythology it's really not that crazy but who knows maybe he just met a girl on the mountain before he died however it happened he had a son named you and if G was Anakin Skywalker the one who was supposed to save the Galaxy but failed you were the chosen one then you was Luke Skywalker who finished his father's Mission use the fce [Music] Luke confirming that the four mountains were correct to recommend gon in the first place because the use of gon would lead to his son actually succeeding so how exactly did you do it well we will get to that but first do you suffer from Stress and Anxiety because of work are you tired after a long day of using your brain it happens to me when I'm meticulously researching Chinese classical texts to produce the videos like the one you are watching now thus I want to introduce you to Pur Tong's black jinang extract Pur Tong's black jinsang helps to regulate blood sugar improve brain functions overall health and Immunity after one week of drinking the black jinang I felt Improvement in my sense of logic and memory Pur Tong's black jinsang is made with Korean jinang aged for 6 years through a process of steaming and drying nine times 100% by hand this unlocks active ingredients and boosts abs aborption gin senicide RG3 which boosts immunity and helps to prevent cancer is eight times higher in purit Tong's black ginsen compared to regular red jinsen the 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enter this refers to the story that it was supposedly just a few days after his wedding that he was appointed to control the flood and he was so determined at it that he did not go home the first time he passed his house he heard his wife in labor and then she gave birth and he heard the sound of his son crying and he did not go in the second time he passed by his son was in his wife's arms and she beckoned him in but it was at a crucial point in digging channels to drain the water so he didn't enter he just waved nice guy and the third time his son was already over 10 years old and he again didn't enter he was more concerned that there were so many people made homeless by the flood that he couldn't rest until his job was done it's a bit hard with a modern mindset to understand he comes across as cold and uncaring for his family by our modern day standards but if you step into a world without modern technology where every second counted in a life and death struggle to survive then maybe your thinking would be a little bit different and you might be able to understand his mindset so that is his determination but what was the turning point in him actually figuring out how to drain the waters so there is one day when you the great saw a Divine turtle in a river and he noticed that there was a pattern on its shell it looked like the L Shu an ancient mystical diagram with connections to numerology and the motion of the universe there is a sentence in the Joe E that [Music] states meaning that if a ruler had virtue the heavens would bestow upon him a diagram and now that L diagram was laying right in front of you on the turtle's back and apparent acknowledgment from the heavens this reinforced used determination and enlightened you to the principle that a virtuous ruler could get Divine help and it was after this that things really started to get moving you then supposedly started getting help from all sorts of gods and mystical creatures including a yellow dragon and a black turtle and was even allowed to use the self-expanding stoil that his father had stolen from the heavens he was able to dig channels to drain the water out and fight off all sorts of beasts that had inhabited the flood Plaines saving China shren was so impressed with Us's determination and his sheer virtue caring for the people of the country even at the expense of his own family that he offered the throne to you instead of his own son and so you became the first emperor of the Shia Dynasty the first of China's three ancient dynasties the Shia Shang and Joe he ruled the Shia Dynasty for 45 years and then died at almost 100 years old of an illness while on a hunting trip to present day shaing in Eastern China there's still a melum at the place of his death which has been rebuilt many times over the centuries the amazing thing when comparing China's flood myth to that of the West is that not only do we have a flood that occurred around the same time but we also have two figures with a very similar story a story of determination and absolute faith in the Divine they both followed exactly what God wanted them to do in Noah's case he built an ark even when everyone else around him tried to make him waver and for you the great his mission from Heaven which technically was given to him by the emperor but the emperor is known as tens okay the representative of Heaven on Earth so it was a mission from Heaven to tame the waters even overrode his bond with his own family and he sacrificed for the greater good later being rewarded becoming an emperor because of his incredible devotion virtue could it be that God or the gods were teaching man the exact same concept of faith in the Divine on two different sides of the Earth at the exact same time in history well you can be the judge of that or you can just take it as a cool mythological story either way is fine by me let me know if there are more Chinese mythological stories you want to hear about in the comments below 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