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474: 593:. Sacrifice and prayer to Houtu are believed to be efficacious for problems of weather, reproduction and family, wealth, and boating safety on the Yellow River. According to one account, when Yu the Great was attempting to channel the Yellow River and so avoid its flooding, he began by trying to open it to the west towards the mountains and away from the sea. Observing this, Houtu is said to have created and studied the River Map, after which she sent divine messenger birds to Yu to tell him to open up the river to the east instead. Yu's new dredging was a success, the flood waters drained into the 311: 25: 102: 377:. Various myths or legends are connected with the idea of mapping, involving correspondences between the earth, the sky, and/or abstract diagrams. The idea of a simple division of a flat/square earth into the very basic 3x3, (9-square) grid is historically attested in literature as early as the 354:
before that character was broadened to be used in reference to most moderately sized rivers. The River Map has thus always been understood to be particularly in reference to the Yellow River and sometimes taken as a diagram of its course or the forces acting upon it.
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in accounts of the creation of humanity and invention of civilization since at least the Zhou dynasty. Among the stories told about him is one in which, inspired by spider webs and other natural phenomena, he created the River Map and then used it to devise the
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was a foundational myth of Chinese culture concerning a major flood said to have lasted at least two generations amid storms and famines. Chinese legend traditionally places it during the third millennium BCE reign of the
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halls of worship, saying that they share a division into 9 fields: these in turn are correlated with the 9 celestial objects—the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn,
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s "Heavenly Questions", together with a suggested corresponding mapping solution for a round heaven/the sky (Hawkes, 136–137 ). This text from the
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Myths of the Yellow River Map go back to earliest stages of the recorded history of Chinese culture.
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First of all, Legge notes that the little bright circles of the "Map" correspond with the "whole" (
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and is accordingly known as He Bo. In some accounts, he is involved in providing the River Map.
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the earliest versions appear to no longer be extant, with received versions going back only to
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The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets
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and that the little dark circles of the "Map" correspond with the "divided" (
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is credited with helping to develop, followed up by the essential work of Yu
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Map of current configuration of Yellow River system, and the Luo (Lo) River.
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A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought
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were a constant occurrence throughout ancient, medieval, and early modern
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dates to pre-221 BCE. This basic grid is associated with the plan of
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over a course of 5,464 kilometers (3,395 mi), making it the
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tributary—and used with the Luoshu in various contexts involving
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and even shifting between the north and south sides of the
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