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26 paź 2020 · There were many different types of water systems in China that were constructed to benefit the citizens and improve their lives. Couple examples are the Dujiangyan water system, the urban water supply of Chang’an, and the Lingqu. The Dujiangyan water system was made in order to change the flow of water.
Ancient China. Journey Through Ancient China's Physical Features.
There is an ancient Chinese legend called He Bo Xian Tu (河伯獻圖), which roughly means "the River Deity presenting a map". During the mythical Xia dynasty , a river deity gave Yu the Great a stone with a flood map etched on its surface.
methods of the Chinese ancient maps that are neglected by the previous researches and reevaluates the drawing theories and methods the influences and accuracy of the maps that represents the scientificity of Chinese ancient cartographic
The two main rivers that flowed through central China—the Yangtze River to the south and the Yellow River to the north—might be considered the two most significant geographical characteristics of ancient China.
ABSTRACT. The two Chinese maps recently discovered in a Han tomb of the second century B.C. antedate by 1,300 years the two maps which were previously the earliest extant in China; elsewhere in the world they are predated only by the Babylonian clay tablets, These Han maps which are of high quality in terms of scale
Among the many rivers on this map flowing into the Hsiao River are the T’o, Féng and Chun Rivers. The rivers in the upper part of the map are the Hsi-chiang (West River) and the Chu (Pearl River) known to all who visited Canton.
