By succeeding Yu after his death, his son Qi "broke with the established rules for the leadership of the tribal alliance," and from then on the old system of ceding the throne to another was replaced by a hereditary succession.
禹死後，他的兒子啟「破壞了部落聯盟首領的慣例」繼位，從此「世襲制度」代替了「禪讓制度」。