Everyone knows that Yu the Great was a legendary Chinese ruler famous for taming the floods and inaugurating nearly four thousand years of dynastic rule in the Middle Kingdom by founding the Xia Dynasty.
What you may not know about Yu the Great, however, is that he also had a smoking missus - at least according to to one statue in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
So much so, in fact, that locals haven't been able to keep themselves from giving her bare breast a rub down every time they pass, giving the bronze of her left boob a luminous finish.
Not that much is known about Yu's wife, besides the fact that he ditched her four days after their wedding to go fight the floods, bidding her farewell and saying he would not return.
During the 13 years of flooding, he is said that have passed by the door of their family home three times: once when his wife was in labor, once when his son could call out his father's name, and once when his son was over ten years old. Each time he refused to go in the door, saying that as long as the floods were leaving people homeless he could not rest.
By making his wife so hot, perhaps the sculptor was trying to emphasize the extent of his sacrifice in leaving her. Why exactly she had to be popping out of her top, though, is anyone's guess. Just about every comment on the story can be summed up in two words: "but why?"
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