A Research On Huang Kezuan's The Complete Book Of Ancient And Modern Dredging And Harnessing The Yellow River

In the Ming Dynasty,the Yellow River was overflowing.Under the joint action of many factors,the Yellow River overflowed frequently throughout the Ming Dynasty.In the Ming Dynasty,it was also difficult to control the yellow plague.On the one hand,to cure the Yellow River,the problems of blockage and breach should be solved.On the other hand,the smooth canal transportation and the safety of Fengyang and Sizhou Mausoleums should be taken into account,so the difficulty of river control was much higher than that of the previous generations.Under political pressure and social pressure,the Ming government attaches great importance to the Yellow River problem,which also makes the Ming Dynasty emerged a large number of water conservancy and river prevention books,Wanli period Huang Kezuan written"The complete book of ancient and modern dredging and harnessing the Yellow River" is one of the representative works.""The complete book of ancient and modern dredging and harnessing the Yellow River" is a published in the Ming Wanli thirty-nine years of the general history of water conservancy literature,the author of Huang Kezuan will be the governor of Shandong more than ten years to participate in the Yellow River project experience and lessons summarized into a book,for later generations.Relying on the historical data of river control in the past dynasties,combined with the current river control projects,the interests of the Ming and Chen Yellow River dredging,and the end of the article is attached to the self-theory,making the book full of evidence,the argument is strong,simple and orderly,simple but not rough.In the book,the author first describes the history of water control,including many precious first-hand documents,which makes the book has a high reference value and historical data value;Then,combining with the situation of the Yellow River in the Ming Dynasty,the causes of the silting of the Yellow River in the Ming Dynasty are analyzed in detail.It is pointed out that the silting of the lower reaches is the root cause of the breakage of the upper reaches of the Yellow River.The attitude of diverting and controlling water is indicated.Finally,the author refutes the practice that a few people invade the ancestral mausoleum for personal gain and prevent the river from going south.In addition,the author also paid attention to the basic living and construction conditions of ordinary river workers,which was not paid attention to in other works on water conservancy at the same time.This makes the book more practical and humanistic,which is different from other literatures on water conservancy and river prevention at the same time.As the crystallization of Huang Kezuan's thought on water conservancy,the book has far-reaching significance.It not only has important guiding significance for the Yellow River treatment project after Wanli of the Ming Dynasty;In addition,as the Yellow River basin has entered a new period of high-quality development,The complete book of ancient and modern dredging and harnessing the Yellow River from Ancient to Modern is also of historical reference value for water and soil conservation in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as river management in the lower reaches...