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Yellow River Flood (other)
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Yellow River flood may refer to: * Jishi Gorge outburst flood (c. 1920 BC) * 1034 Yellow River flood * 1048 Yellow River flood * 1194 Yellow River flood * 1344 Yellow River flood * 1375 Yellow River flood * 1384 Yellow River flood * 1390 Yellow River flood * 1391 Yellow River flood * 1416 Yellow River flood * 1448 Yellow River flood * 1452 Yellow River floods * 1453 Yellow River flood * 1494 Yellow River flood * 1642 Yellow River flood * 1851–1855 Yellow River floods * 1887 Yellow River flood * 1897 Yellow River flood * 1931 Yellow River flood * 1938 Yellow River flood * 1958 Yellow River flood See also * List of floods * List of floods in China Natural disasters in China are the result of several different natural hazards that affect the country according to its particular geographic and geologic features affecting both humans and animals. Perception of disasters Natural disasters rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellow River
The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai province of Western China, it flows through nine provinces, and it empties into the Bohai Sea near the city of Dongying in Shandong province. The Yellow River basin has an east–west extent of about and a north–south extent of about . Its total drainage area is about . The Yellow River's basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese, and, by extension, Far Eastern civilization, and it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. There are frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fields. Etymology Early Chinese literature including the '' Yu Gong'' or ''Tribute of Yu'' dating to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1452 Yellow River Floods
The 1452 Yellow River floods were major natural disasters affecting hundreds of thousands of farmers along the Yellow River in Shandong and Henan, as well as the Huai River valley. The first flood destroyed the extensive public works created at Shawan just four years before as a result of the 1448 flood at Linqing. The silt flooded into the Grand Canal in Shandong required major effort to repair. After the earthworks had been repaired, the Jingtai Emperor The Jingtai Emperor (21 September 1428 – 14 March 1457), born Zhu Qiyu, was the seventh Emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1449 to 1457. The second son of the Xuande Emperor, he was selected in 1449 to succeed his elder brother Emper ... ordered the construction of two temples one at Heiyangshan and the other at Shawan and committed himself to praying personally to the river gods for flood prevention.Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry. ''SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies'': The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty'. SUNY Press, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Yellow River Flood
The 1958 Yellow River flood was an extraordinarily large rise in the water flow of the Yellow River in China that coincided with the onset of the Great Leap Forward The Great Leap Forward (Second Five Year Plan) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1958 to 1962. CCP Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruc .... In July 1958, the peak discharge of the Yellow River at Huayuankou was with a maximum sediment concentration of , 14× and 24× their mean annual values, respectively. The flood water level was so high that it rose up to the top of the levee in several places.Zhang Hai-Lun and Wen Kang, Flood Control and Management for Large Rivers in China, presented at: Workshop on Strengthening Capacity in Participatory Planning and Management for Flood Mitigation and Preparedness in Large River Basins: Regional Cooperation in Flood Control and Management in Asia and the Pacific, Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Yellow River Flood
The 1938 Yellow River flood (, literally "Huayuankou embankment breach incident") was a flood created by the Nationalist Government in central China during the early stage of the Second Sino-Japanese War in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese forces. It has been called the "largest act of environmental warfare in history" and an example of scorched earth military strategy. Strategic decision and subsequent flood Following the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army marched rapidly into the heart of Chinese territory. By June 1938, the Japanese had control of all of North China. On June 6, they captured Kaifeng, the capital of Henan, and threatened to take over Zhengzhou, the junction of the arterial Pinghan and Longhai Railways. Japanese success here would have directly endangered the major city of Wuhan. To stop further Japanese advances into western and southern China, Chiang Kai-shek, at the suggestion of Chen Guofu, determ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Yellow River Flood
The 1931 China floods, or the 1931 Yangtze–Huai River floods, occurred from June to August 1931 in China, hitting major cities such as Wuhan, Nanjing and beyond, which eventually culminated into a dike breach along Lake Gaoyou on 25 August 1931. Fatality estimates vary widely. A field survey by the University of Nanking led by John Lossing Buck immediately after the flood found "150,000 people had '' drowned'', and that this number represented less than a quarter of all fatalities during the first 100 days of the flood." The official report found 140,000 drowned and claims that "2 million people died during the flood, having drowned or died from lack of food". A cholera epidemic in the subsequent year, from May 1932, was officially reported to have 31,974 deaths and 100,666 cases. While frequently featured in the list of disasters in China by death toll, a popular high-end estimate of 3.7 to 4.0 million fatalities is instrumental in "helping the 1931 flood to secure its p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 Yellow River Flood
The 1887 Yellow River flood in Qing China began in September 1887 and killed at least 930,000 people.Encyclopedia of Disasters: Environmental Catastrophes and Human Tragedies Angus M. Gunn, 2007, chapter 35: 'Yellow River China flood 1887', pp. 141–144 (this source quotes the figure of 900,500, and 2 million homeless, though some sources give other figures) It was the single deadliest flood in China, making it one of the largest disasters in China by death toll. History For centuries, the farmers living near the Yellow River had built[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1851–1855 Yellow River Floods
The 1851-1855 Yellow River floods resulted in a change of the Yellow River's course, thereafter emptying into the Bohai Sea rather than into the Yellow Sea.Fei, J., Lai, ZP., He, HM. et al. Limnology (2012) 13: 117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10201-011-0361-5 This natural disaster is thought to have been a major cause of the Taiping Rebellion and Nian Rebellion The Nian Rebellion () was an armed uprising that took place in northern China from 1851 to 1868, contemporaneously with Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864) in South China. The rebellion failed to topple the Qing dynasty, but caused immense economi .... References 1851 in China Yellow River Floods in China {{China-history-stub Yellow River floods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1642 Yellow River Flood
The 1642 Yellow River flood or Kaifeng flood was a man-made disaster in October, 1642, that principally affected Kaifeng and Xuzhou. Kaifeng is located on the south bank of the Yellow River, prone to violent flooding throughout its history. During the early Ming dynasty, the town was the site of major floods in 1375, 1384, 1390, 1410, and 1416.Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry. ''SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies'': The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty'. SUNY Press, 1996. , 9780791426876. Accessed 16 Oct 2012. By the mid-15th century, the Ming had completed restoration of the area's flood-control system and operated it with general success for over a century. The 1642 flood, however, was not natural, but directed by the Ming governor of the city in the hopes of using the floodwaters to break the six-month siege the city had endured from the peasant rebels led by Li Zicheng. The dikes were burst in an attempt to flood the rebels, but the water destroyed Kaifeng. According to another account, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1494 Yellow River Flood
The 1494 Yellow River flood was a natural disaster in China during the Ming dynasty. Flood relief was directed by the grand eunuch Li Xing, who founded the city of Anping and established temples to the river god there and at Huanglinggan. He shifted the channel of the Yellow River past Xuzhou Xuzhou (徐州), also known as Pengcheng (彭城) in ancient times, is a major city in northwestern Jiangsu province, China. The city, with a recorded population of 9,083,790 at the 2020 census (3,135,660 of which lived in the built-up area ma ... and Huaian, limiting the severity of the river's floods over the next few decades and establishing the general course of the river until the floods of the 1850s.Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry. ''SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies'': The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty'. SUNY Press, 1996. , 9780791426876. Accessed 16 Oct 2012. References Disasters in Ming dynasty Yellow River Flood, 1494 Yellow River Flood, 1494 Yellow River floods 15th-centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1453 Yellow River Flood
The 1453 Yellow River flood was a natural disaster in the area surrounding Shawan in Shandong, China, during the Ming dynasty. The banks repaired just the year before burst again in the fourth lunar month and again in the fifth. See also * 1452 Yellow River floods The 1452 Yellow River floods were major natural disasters affecting hundreds of thousands of farmers along the Yellow River in Shandong and Henan, as well as the Huai River valley. The first flood destroyed the extensive public works created at Sh ... References Disasters in Ming dynasty Yellow River Floods, 1453 Yellow River Floods, 1453 Yellow River floods 15th-century floods {{flood-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1448 Yellow River Flood
The 1448 Yellow River flood was a major natural disaster affecting over 2000 '' li'' (about 700 miles) of the Yellow River. The flood threatened to destroy the Grand Canal port of Linqing and led to the Ming dynasty The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ... constructing major public works in Shawan to prevent a recurrence. The banks and dikes only lasted four years until the 1452 flood.Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry. ''SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies'': The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty'. SUNY Press, 1996. , 9780791426876. Accessed 16 Oct 2012. References Disasters in Ming dynasty Yellow River Flood, 1448 Yellow River Flood, 1448 Yellow River floods 15th-century floods {{flood-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
