Eight people in the ancient Chinese ideogram (pictograph) for boat were the number of people who survived the global flood, the hero Fuhi with his wife, three sons, and three daughters, so that the famous early emperors of Chinese history such as Yao and Shun lived in the circa 2200 b. c. timeframe jibes with the biblical timeline, both probably of the lineage of Sin (or Sena or Sana), progeny of Canaan who migrated far to the east. Be sure to google search Flood Legends from Around the World, to see that there are many more than just the Chinese and Hebrew renditions of the global flood.
