How did dengdi become the capital of Xia Dynasty? It turned out that after Dayu took over the flood control duties of his father, he "worked hard and couldn't enter his family three times." Finally, he figured out the method of dredging according to the situation, instead of his father's method of building levees and blocking water, which led the flood on the earth to the East China Sea and eliminated the flood. Because of his meritorious service in flood control, Emperor Shun passed on the throne of emperor to him. But when Dayu was old, he didn't abdicate the position of the son of heaven to virtuous and virtuous people, but passed it on to his son Qi as the son of heaven. After Qi succeeded to the throne, he established the first dynasty in Chinese history, the Xia Dynasty. Qiye naturally became the first king of the Xia Dynasty. However, unlike Dayu, who was "poor in food and clothing and humble in the Imperial Palace", he ate, drank and played all day long, indulged in immorality and made a Xia Dynasty in which the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, full of complaints and perils. In history, he was known as "Xia Qi's Famine Policy". Qi also passed the throne to his eldest son, Taikang. After he ascended the throne, Taikang, a dissolute son, was better than Qi. He was fatuous and lustful. He never asked about the government, and finally aroused public indignation. He was expelled from the capital of Xia Dynasty by a group of people headed by Hou Yi, the leader of Youqiong tribe, and went to Luoshui to live a life of exile. In history, it was called "Taikang lost the country." After Taikang died, his younger brother Zhongkang ascended the throne, but he only had a false name. In fact, he wandered around Luoshui with several brothers. After the death of Zhongkang, his sons succeeded to the throne one after another. Houyi and hanzhuo were fighting for the throne of Xia Dynasty for a long time. Emperor Xiang had to take his wife and run to his father-in-law's Youshang clan. He didn't revive the Xia Dynasty until he gave birth to his son Shaokang, grew up and ascended the throne. Since the loss of Taikang, for at least one hundred years since the rise of Kangzhong, the royal power has been left in the hands of the head of the alien tribe. During Zhongkang's exile, hanzhuo defeated Houyi to occupy Kyoto and usurped the imperial power of Xia Dynasty. The exiled emperor Zhongkang, together with his brothers and aristocrats of the same surname, agreed that dengdi was the best place for the prosperity of crops, the accumulation of strength, and the restoration of the foundation of the Xia Dynasty. So he granted Deng another ambitious and capable son and made Deng the capital of the Xia Dynasty. Until Shaokang revived the Xia Dynasty and returned to DiQiu, dengdi was always the capital of the Xia Dynasty. The descendants of Zhong Kang, who had been operating in the fertile land of Deng for more than 800 years, lived here with painstaking efforts. After the resurgence of the Xia Dynasty, they stood among the vassal states with the same surname.
Sima Qian once praised the state of Deng as the residence of the adherents of Xia Dynasty. Xia people were in charge of politics and advocated honesty and simplicity. So far, Dengzhou still retains the traditional fashion of the ancestors of the Xia Dynasty.
