In Chinese myths and legends, there has always been a saying that "Da Yu cast the nine tripod".It is worth exploring that why Did Yu cast the nine tripod?Why did such an artifact, which seems useless to modern people, become the centerpiece of the kingdom in ancient times, symbolizing the supremacy of the crown?

It is said that after Dayu became the ruler of ancient China, he entered the reign of peace, Yan Yan and He Qing, and peace and prosperity. The whole country and its people became more and more prosperous.

Against such a background, Shi An, a minister, asked The King of Yu: "Now more and more gold is being paid by the people around the world. Shouldn't it be used for something?

Dayu thought and thought, and finally decided to draw lessons from the practice of The Yellow Emperor Gongcheng ding, casting nine large ding.However, in order to prevent the princes and the people from blaming him for his success, he decided to make the ding-ding not only for his own merit, but also for its practical value.

At that time, it was not long before humans came out of the wild age, and there were still various poisonous insects and wild beasts on the land. Yu the Great decided to carve some animal patterns on the casting ding to show the people all over the world how to distinguish birds and beasts and seek good fortune to avoid evil.This is the embodiment of practical value.

So how many cauldrons do you cast?This is a tricky question.The world is not divided into nine states (namely, Ji, Yan, Qing, Xu, Yang, Jing, Yu, Liang, Yong), that is to cast nine large tripod, each tripod town a state, to show that the world peace, jiangshan forever.

This, of course, raises the question of how, in the Xia people's myth, the earth was divided into kyushu rather than any other number of regions.

Some researchers have found that "nine" in the mythological world of Xia People seems to be a basic number to construct its world.The basic number used by the Xia people to construct the universe in their creation myth, which is also called "archetype holy number" by Jung, which can be called "cultural meta-code number".

According to this number, the Summer people divide and call the world they have created.This made the most sacred objects in the xia people's mythological world all named and made with "Jiu Ding", and the system of offering sacrifices to the artifact "Jiu Ding" was determined according to this rule.

After the nine cauldrons were cast, they gradually evolved into a symbol of national unity and prosperity and the supremacy of the monarchy.As the DE facto founder of the Xia dynasty, Dayu, through the further propaganda of his successor Qi, made the Nine Tripod the treasure of the town, thus forming a ritual tradition: when the vassal states from all quarters came to see the ruler of the Xia dynasty, they had to bow down to the Nine Tripod to show their loyalty.

In the legend of the tripod made by the Xia people in Zuo Zhuan and Shi Ji, the nine tripods symbolized the nine kingdoms of the world. The nine tripods were made by pooling the gold of the nine kingdoms and serving as an artifact owned by the Xia dynasty. They were endowed with the sacrifices of all peoples in Kyushu, which naturally symbolized the control and dominance of the xia rulers over the nine kingdoms of the world.

From then on, the nine cauldrons became the most important sacrificial vessel for a country in The Chinese civilization, which is also called "the most important instrument of a country".

According to historical records, after the shang Dynasty ended the Xia Dynasty, the nine cauldons, which symbolized the throne of the Xia Dynasty, were moved to Bocheng, the capital of the Shang Dynasty.

After the Zhou Dynasty replaced the Shang Dynasty, the Nine Tripods were moved to Luoyi, which was called "Ding Ding" in history.

At the end of the Warring States Period, the nine cauldron was captured by the State of Qin, but in the process of moving out, one of the cauldron somehow got lost in Surabaya. The other eight cauldron also mysteriously disappeared later, which has been a mystery for centuries and keeps modern people from seeing its true features.