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According to the Chinese myth, both Yu and his father
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Gun were considered as experts in controlling the flood. How-
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ever, the father and the son adopted different methods. Gun
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tried to contain the waters within dikes, but he did not succeed.
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Then Yu succeeded to the labors commenced by his father.
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Besides building dikes as Gun had done, he cut channels and
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built projects to drain the waters away to the sea. He finally
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succeeded in pacifying the flood.