SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

Nine Provinces

  • Yu the Great Taming the Floods

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    This is an ancient myth and legend. Yu (大禹) was the chieftain of the Xiahou clan (夏后氏), also known as Xia Yu or Rong Yu (夏禹、戎禹). According to tradition, his father, Gun (鲧), was ordered by Emperor Yao to control the floods. Gun stole the Heavenly Emperor’s “living soil” (息壤, Xirang) to build dikes,…

  • The River God Meets the Ocean

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    This interprets the well‑known fable from Zhuangzi ‑ Autumn Floods. The conceited River God meets the vast North‑Sea‑Ruo, learns his own smallness, illustrating perspective limits, humility and the relativity of great and small.

  • Chapter 17: Autumn Floods (Qiu Shui)

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    This Zhuangzi ‑ Qiushui (Autumn Floods) excerpt uses He Bo and Sea God’s dialogue to teach relativism of size and values. It includes well‑known parables like the well‑frog and the fish‑joy debate, urging humility and natural spontaneity.