Through the analysis of the narrative structure of Chinese mythology Emperor
Yu Tames the Flood, in this paper, not only can the ecological philosophy
thinking style of "the relationship between heaven and man" be easily found,
but also its value and meaning were further clarified. Circling around the
narrative structure of "emperor water-control", this paper mainly focuses on the
death of Gun(the name of emperor Yu's father) and the success of Yu. In order
to control the flood, Gun violated the Emperor's rules, broke the holy heaven
field and stole the sacred earth, which lead to his death penalty. By contrast,
born in the abdomen of the Gun, Yu followed the order of the Emperor and
took the holy heaven soil to control the flood successfully, which helped him
to manage the Kyushu finally. Here hides the ecological philosophy thought
of the age of mythology and religion. Besides, for the first time, it's also clarified
the paradigm of Eastern value of "relationship between heaven and human"
which originally appeared as "tides of fate" to strengthen the monarchy in the
ancient Xia Shang Zhou Dynasties. Later, during the period of Spring and
Autumn and Warring States, the topic of the will of heaven and human became
the main philosophical thinking point in the forum of hundred schools of thought. At the same time, the thought of emperor of heaven supported by
the Confucian theories of Confucius and Mencius, gradually turned to be the
principle of nature. In the Han Dynasty, combined with the Yin Yang and the
five elements, Dong Zhongshu's theory of human nature was formed and
strengthened the ecological philosophy thinking further. In additions, after
controlling the Flood successfully, Yu was gifted the "Fan nine domain" by
heaven. Its core content is "Hong Fan" that formed the theory of five elements
and corresponding ecological culture.