《理水》

《理水》 is the [[GushiXinbian|《故事新编》]] story that 75.故事新编：骷髅被复活后会感激庄子吗？ uses to reread [[YuTheGreat|大禹]] as a worker-leader amid flood, scholarship, and bureaucracy. The episode contrasts flood victims tied to trees or eating leaves with culture-mountain scholars and officials who remain physically insulated from disaster.

The story’s satire works through distance. Scholars debate whether Yu existed or whether his name means an insect, officials convert disaster food into tasteful objects, and only Yu arrives dirty, tired, and ready to ask people and inspect terrain. The episode links this to [[GuJiegang|顾颉刚]], [[GushiBian|古史辨]], 索隐式阅读 / Suo Yin Reading, and Disaster Aestheticization.

Connections

• [[GushiXinbian|《故事新编》]] - collection containing the story.
• [[LuXun|鲁迅]] - author whose myth rewriting turns ancient flood control into modern satire.
• [[YuTheGreat|大禹]] - central mythic ruler, recast as the practical figure who actually enters disaster terrain.
• [[GuJiegang|顾颉刚]] and [[GushiBian|古史辨]] - source-scoped scholarly allusion behind the “禹是一条虫” episode.
• Natural Hazard As Social Disaster - adjacent disaster-history frame for separating natural trigger from social response.
• Disaster Aestheticization - main concept for the episode’s reading of suffering as scenery, evidence, and exhibit.