AT-0373

The Jishi Outburst Flood of 1920 bce and the Great Flood Legend in Ancient China: Preliminary Reflections

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Gun-Yu Flood

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Textual-historical critique: argues that early Yu traditions are cosmogonic landscape-ordering accounts not identifiable with one Yellow River flood or usable to date Xia.

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Jishi Gorge Flood

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Textual-historical critique: challenges identification of the early Yu tradition with one Yellow River flood and its use to date Xia.

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Jishi Gorge Flood

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The outburst-flood reconstruction, Lajia destruction, and Yu/Xia identification are distinct evidentiary chains.

The Jishi Gorge event-to-legend proposition should be a Claim review nested under the Gun-Yu tradition and Flood Myths, with separate cards for physical outburst evidence, Lajia association, date/magnitude, textual identification, and Xia-historicity claims.
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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

An early inscription and transmitted accounts present Yu as foundational; the 2016 paper’s further use of the flood tradition to support Xia chronology is contested.

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A 1920 BCE outburst flood has been proposed as historical context for the Great Flood tradition, but the listed evidence does not establish that one event generated the transmitted Gun–Yu account.

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Wu et al. proposed a Jishi Gorge–Great Flood/Xia correlation; subsequent textual and geological critiques dispute the event-to-legend and Lajia links.

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The Gun–Yu tradition preserves a transmitted Chinese account of great inundation and flood control; identification with a specific historical flood remains disputed.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

A major Jishi Gorge outburst flood was proposed from geological evidence; its magnitude, chronology, Lajia association, and historical interpretation remain contested.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

The proposed outburst may be compared with the Great Flood tradition, but the listed evidence does not demonstrate an event-to-tradition transmission chain.

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The proposed flood chronology contributes to the Xia-historicity debate but cannot establish dynasty historicity by itself.

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Wu et al. proposed Jishi as historical context for the Great Flood and Xia; textual-historical and geological correctives leave that identification unestablished.

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