Well, building levees was his idea of flood control. And now we're doing it again. "China has a long history of flood control, and everyone knows the story of Gun and Yu. Gun tried to wall out the waters, and by failing went down in history as a big failure.
「建堤防就是現代『鯀』的圍堵政策，」夏鑄九說，中國是水利社會，老百姓都知道，大禹用疏導，成為賢君；鯀用圍堵，是昏臣。