excavation

Yao and Shun are emperors of mythical of China. (堯と舜)
　
"Their reign was the ideal society."
　
This is handed down that way.
And one.
　
"Shun was a man of 東夷."

This is also handed down that way.

Translation of 東夷 is "Eastern Barbarians".
In short，夷 have a meaning of Barbarians.

But Shun is a saint of China.

"Shun is from barbarians.
It's strange.
Initially word of 夷 must did not mean barbarians."

Therefore theory such seems to exist.


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Yao and Shun did not hereditary the throne.
　
Yao gave away his throne to Shun.
And Shun gave away his throne to Yu. (禹)

"Yu became a figure of the bear when walking."
Incidentally there is this legend to Yu.　

He founded ”the Xia dynasty”. (夏)
This dynasty is the first dynasty of China.　
And thus the throne was became hereditary from here.　

But until now，we had nothing to be able to confirm the presence of this dynasty.　
Invention of Chinese characters.
It's the era of the Yin dynasty of next dynasty.　(殷)

Therefore this dynasty is considered with the presence of fictitious.　

"Ruins of the Xia dynasty may have been excavated."
But nowadays，I saw its news on TV programs.
　
Just maybe，we are able to confirmed existence of the Xia dynasty.

The Yin dynasty.
Until the excavation of ruins of theirs capital city，they were also believed to be a fictional dynasty.
　
　
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Incidentally，Japanese pronunciation of ”Yu・禹” is "U". (う)
　
And chinese characters bear is "熊".　

Japanese are read this word as "kuma" mainly.  (くま)
　
"Yu" and ”U”. (ゆう&う)
But this Chinese character is also possible to read that way.