The Yangtze River and the Yellow River are the two mother rivers of China. In the history of the Yellow River, floods often occurred. The frequent ice flood, cut-off and repeated diversion in the lower reaches have made people in the Yellow River basin miserable. So the Yangtze River has been cut off?

According to historical records, the Yangtze River was cut off twice in the same place, which is now Taixing, Jiangsu.

According to historical records, in July of the second year of Dade in Yuan Dynasty (i.e. 1298), a rainstorm caused the river to rise as high as forty or fifty feet, causing countless people and animals to drift and drown. In August of the second year of Zheng Zheng (1342), the water in the Yangtze River dried up overnight. This is a very strange thing. The Yangtze River flooded, but it was cut off for decades and dried up overnight. August is the midsummer season and the flood season of the Yangtze River, which is incredible. This is the first time in the history of the Yangtze River.

The second cut-off occurred shortly after the founding of New China. At 4: 00 p.m. in 1954 65438+ 10/3, the Yangtze River cut-off occurred again in Taixing, Jiangsu Province, which was another cut-off after 600 years. According to experience, it was already dark at that time, the mighty Yangtze River suddenly dried up and stopped flowing, the ships on the river ran aground, and everything happened quickly and suddenly.

It is said that the reason for these two interruptions is geography. It is said that there is a rift valley in the east of China, which lasts for a long time and runs through Jiangsu and Shandong provinces. In fact, the two interruptions of the Yangtze River only overlap on the same section in the south of this ancient rift valley.

The Yangtze River runs from west to east, but the rivers in Taixing suddenly turn south, which is more than 40 kilometers long. To the north along the river, there is Hongze Lake, the fourth largest freshwater lake in China. There is also an ancient salt lake with the same area lurking at the bottom of Hongze Lake. It was formed about 67 million years ago, and the lake bed was miraculously embedded in the bottom of this ancient rift valley. This is the Great Rift Valley in East Africa.

The incredible interruption of the Yangtze River is inextricably linked with this unique geographical form.