大禹 / Yu the Great
大禹 / Yu the Great appears in 75.故事新编：骷髅被复活后会感激庄子吗？ through 《理水》. The episode emphasizes Lu Xun’s contrast between a blackened, exhausted, calloused Yu who has inspected mountains, marshes, and popular opinion, and the insulated scholars and officials who speak about flood victims from a distance.
The source makes Yu both mythic and practical. His existence is debated through 古史辨-style doubt, but inside the story his force comes from action: he rejects the inherited “堵” method, insists on drainage, and wants ordinary people to have transport, food, and stability rather than cultural ceremony.
Hanji 150 PLUS New Year special uses Yu in a different, compact role. He appears as the successor after Yao and Shun in the 尧舜禹传说, where the point is not flood-control technique but the mythic-ruler sequence attached to 元旦节日层累.
Connections
- 《理水》 - Lu Xun story where Yu becomes the practical flood-control figure.
- 尧舜禹传说 and 元旦节日层累 - New Year origin-frame extension added by Hanji 150 PLUS.
- 顾颉刚 and 古史辨 - scholarly doubt frame around Yu’s historicity and name.
- Disaster Aestheticization - contrast concept for scholars and officials who convert disaster into talk or display.
- Natural Hazard As Social Disaster - adjacent disaster frame for understanding flood as both water and institutional response.