《鲧盗息壤平治洪水》

洪水淹没了大地，人们逃上山躲避。天神鲧向天帝求取息壤被拒绝，决定不待帝命，偷下神土堵住洪水。天帝震怒，派火神祝融在羽山杀死了他。可鲧的身体三年不烂，肚子里还藏着一个孩子——治水的事，将由他的儿子继续。

"When floodwaters drown the land, the god Gun begs the Emperor of Heaven for the swelling soil that grows by itself. Refused, he steals it without imperial leave and holds back the flood — then the fire god Zhurong puts him to death at Mount Yu. Yet Gun's body does not rot for three years, and inside it sleeps a boy who will finish the work his father began."