Literature and History Are Inseparable: The Great Yu in Poetry

Ka-lai Chan

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Literature and History Are Inseparable: The Great Yu in Poetry

Ka-lai Chan

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 10, Issue 4)

Received: 6 May 2022 Accepted: 24 May 2022 Published: 20 July 2022

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As a significant figure in the mythological period of the Chinese nation, the Great Yu was recorded in all Four Categories (sibu 四部) of classics. Under the influence of Disputing Antiquity movement, (Gushi bian古史辨), existing studies mainly focus on factual aspects. Moreover, scholars from the perspective of transmitted documents further give priority to the categories of Confucian classics, history and philosophy. In fact, poems and lyrics in the Category of Literature also contain plentiful records concerning the Great Yu, but they are unfortunately neglected by the present academia. In this paper, I present some narrations written by imperial China poets who treated Great Yu as an important sage-emperor in Chinese History. This paper finds that the themes of poetry about Great Yu are very broad, including Great Yu’s story, legend, governing, taming the flood, heritage, tomb, temple as well as marriage. Many famous poets are also willing to write poems with the theme of Great Yu. The paper focuses on the poetry about the Great Yu in the Category of Literature to explore this mythical character in ancient intellectual’s poetic expressions, so as to add to studies about the Great Yu.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 10, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20221004.11
Page(s)	195-202
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Poetry on Yu, Great Yu, Category of Literature

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