Gun (Chinese mythology)
Count of Chong Gun | |
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鯀 | |
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| Spouse | Nüzhi (女志) |
| Children | Yu the Great |
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鯀 in oracle bone script | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese | 鯀 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Gun (Chinese: 鯀; pinyin: Gǔn; Wade–Giles: Kun3, lit. "big fish"), also known as Count of Chong (Chinese: 崇伯鯀; pinyin: Chóngbó Gǔn; Wade–Giles: Ch'ung2-po2 Kun3), is a figure in Chinese mythology, sometimes noted as the father of Yu the Great, the founder of the Xia dynasty. Gun was appointed to the task of controlling the Great Flood by Emperor Yao on the advice of the Four Mountains. Gun used dykes to try to stop the flooding but the dykes collapsed, killing many people.