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Yu's Son Qi Bursting Forth from the Petrified Stone Body of Tushan

🐉 Chinese MythologyMount Tu, Anhui, ChinaYu the Great • Nü Jiao • Qi

In the age of the Great Flood, the hero Yu the Great labored to tame the waters, eventually marrying Nü Jiao of Mount Tu. After a misunderstanding led his pregnant wife to transform into a stone statue in terror, Yu demanded his son, causing the rock to split open and the future King Qi to be born.