Yu the Great
![[[Song-era]] depiction of Yu](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/King_Yu_of_Xia.jpg)
There is no contemporary evidence of Yu's existence as traditionally attested in the ''Shiji''. Yu is said to have ruled as sage-king during the late 3rd millennium BC, which predates the oracle bone script used during the late Shang dynasty—the oldest known form of writing in China—by nearly a millennium. Yu's name was not inscribed on any artifacts which were produced during the proposed era in which he lived, nor was it inscribed on the later oracle bones; his name was first inscribed on vessels which date to the Western Zhou period (771 BC). Provided by Wikipedia
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1by De-Yang Li, Ying Huang, Ke-Xin Wang, Xiu-Ping Dong, Da Yu, Li-Hong Ge, Da-Yong Zhou, Chen-Xu YuGet access
Published in International Journal of Food Properties (2018)
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