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the dujiangyan dam 45km north of chengdu is an ancient technological wonder of the country more than XX yers ago li bing(250200bc) as a local governor of the shu state designed this water control and irrigation dam and organized thousands of local people to complete the project to check the mingjiang riverfor many years the riverflooded the chengdu agricultural area and local farmers suffered a lot from the water disaster due to the success of the project the dam automatically diverts the mingjiang river and channels it into irrigation canals for many years the dam has continued to make the most of the water conservancy works
expansion has been undertaken since 1949 and at present the system does a good job of irrigating farming land across 33counties of the western part of sichuan province local people feel proud of the system becaude it has supported a large amount of people in their daily life
what makes this system so good
the system is a large hydraulic water project which consists of three main parts the fish mouth waterdividing dam the flying sand fence and the bottleneck channel
the fish mouth functions to divide the flow of water into an inner river and an outer river long ago when li bing worked as the local governor of the shu state he found the old river canal was too narrow to hold much water which often overflowed the banks and caused disastrous flood based on natural geographic conditions he organized the people to build a manmade dam the whole dam looks like a fish and the front dam has a circular cone shaped like a fish mouth it is the dam that channels water into an outer canal and an inner canal the outer water canal functions as the main stream and holds sixty percent of water in the river the extra water goes through the inner canal for irrigation in chengdu areas
the flying sand fence joins the inner and outer canals the fence functions to controll the flow of water and discharge excess into the inner canal from the main stream during the dry season the fence doesn＇t work much but when floods occur the river rushes forward along the outer canal as it approaches the fence the fencethe river begins to turn round fast and soon many whirlpools are formed the volatile whirlpools sweep away sand and pebbles and throw them into the outer canal for many years huge bamboo baskets were used as the fence they were filled with stones and pebbles howeverat present reinforced concrete weir has replaced the ancient fence
so now let＇s discuss the bottleneck channel a trunk canal was cut through the mountain into two parts which link up the inner canal for irrigation the small part is later called li dui which means an isolated hill chengdu looks like a large bottle and the trunk canal between the mountain and the hill takes shape of the bottleneck the trunk canal technically has two functions first it leads the water to irrigate the farming land in western sichujan secondly the trunk casnal works together with the flying sand weir to keep the flow below a certain point in the inner canal during flood season some stone tablets which stand on the isolated hill are engraved in buddhist sanskrit the local people hope that the buddhist tablets can exert the buddhist superpower to harness flood disaster for over two thousand years in fact the fish mouth waterdividing dam the flying sand weir and the bottleneck channel automatically work together to control foods and sweep away sand and stones in the main stram the local people benefit a lot from this project
not far from the dujiang dam a daoist temple complex was wrwcted was erected to commemorate the benevolent rule of li bing and his son who succeeded him li bing and his son were granted the posthumous title of wang the folk story says that july 24of the chinese lunar calendar is li bing＇ birthday on the day many local people visit the temple where they prostrate themselges before the image of li bing and his son and burn incense to honor them the largerthanlife painted statues of father and son overlook the rushing river below nearby a stone tablet os engraved with a famous sixcharacter quotation from li bingwhen the river flows in zigzags cut a straight channel when the riverbeb is wide and shallow dig it deeper the temple which is built near the mountaintop is a popular stopping place for sightseers there one can enjoy a unique view of the most modern parts of the water conservation project
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the dujiangyan dam 45km north of chengdu is an ancient technological wonder of the country more than XX yers ago li bing(250200bc) as a local governor of the shu state designed this water control and irrigation dam and organized thousands of local people to complete the project to check the mingjiang riverfor many years the riverflooded the chengdu agricultural area and local farmers suffered a lot from the water disaster due to the success of the project the dam automatically diverts the mingjiang river and channels it into irrigation canals for many years the dam has continued to make the most of the water conservancy works
expansion has been undertaken since 1949 and at present the system does a good job of irrigating farming land across 33counties of the western part of sichuan province local people feel proud of the system becaude it has supported a large amount of people in their daily life
what makes this system so good
the system is a large hydraulic water project which consists of three main parts the fish mouth waterdividing dam the flying sand fence and the bottleneck channel
the fish mouth functions to divide the flow of water into an inner river and an outer river long ago when li bing worked as the local governor of the shu state he found the old river canal was too narrow to hold much water which often overflowed the banks and caused disastrous flood based on natural geographic conditions he organized the people to build a manmade dam the whole dam looks like a fish and the front dam has a circular cone shaped like a fish mouth it is the dam that channels water into an outer canal and an inner canal the outer water canal functions as the main stream and holds sixty percent of water in the river the extra water goes through the inner canal for irrigation in chengdu areas
the flying sand fence joins the inner and outer canals the fence functions to controll the flow of water and discharge excess into the inner canal from the main stream during the dry season the fence doesn＇t work much but when floods occur the river rushes forward along the outer canal as it approaches the fence the fencethe river begins to turn round fast and soon many whirlpools are formed the volatile whirlpools sweep away sand and pebbles and throw them into the outer canal for many years huge bamboo baskets were used as the fence they were filled with stones and pebbles howeverat present reinforced concrete weir has replaced the ancient fence
so now let＇s discuss the bottleneck channel a trunk canal was cut through the mountain into two parts which link up the inner canal for irrigation the small part is later called li dui which means an isolated hill chengdu looks like a large bottle and the trunk canal between the mountain and the hill takes shape of the bottleneck the trunk canal technically has two functions first it leads the water to irrigate the farming land in western sichujan secondly the trunk casnal works together with the flying sand weir to keep the flow below a certain point in the inner canal during flood season some stone tablets which stand on the isolated hill are engraved in buddhist sanskrit the local people hope that the buddhist tablets can exert the buddhist superpower to harness flood disaster for over two thousand years in fact the fish mouth waterdividing dam the flying sand weir and the bottleneck channel automatically work together to control foods and sweep away sand and stones in the main stram the local people benefit a lot from this project
not far from the dujiang dam a daoist temple complex was wrwcted was erected to commemorate the benevolent rule of li bing and his son who succeeded him li bing and his son were granted the posthumous title of wang the folk story says that july 24of the chinese lunar calendar is li bing＇ birthday on the day many local people visit the temple where they prostrate themselges before the image of li bing and his son and burn incense to honor them the largerthanlife painted statues of father and son overlook the rushing river below nearby a stone tablet os engraved with a famous sixcharacter quotation from li bingwhen the river flows in zigzags cut a straight channel when the riverbeb is wide and shallow dig it deeper the temple which is built near the mountaintop is a popular stopping place for sightseers there one can enjoy a unique view of the most modern parts of the water conservation project
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