The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation. However, the records of this mother river are mostly silted up and burst its banks, and the diversion and flooding are frequent. This is also related to the area where the Yellow River flows. It flows through the Loess Plateau, covering an area of 530,000 square kilometers. The soil structure here is loose and soil erosion is easy. Over time, these lost sediments are deposited on the river bed, which makes the river bed rise. When the river overflows, it is easy to cause the hidden danger of breach and diversion.

Historically, the Yellow River has undergone six diversions. In 602 BC, in the fifth year of King Ding Zhou, the Yellow River changed its course at today's intersection of Qihe River and Weihe River, headed east to Sichuan, joined with Zhanghe River, and then entered the sea through Zhangwu. This is the first diversion of the Yellow River. In BC 132, the Yellow River burst here, and the flood flowed into the Huaihe River through Surabaya. After more than ten years, it experienced several blockages, but the water potential still moved south. In 39 AD, the Mingdukou in the lower reaches of the Yellow River burst its banks, and now there are still original sites in Shandong and Hebei. Later, during the period of Yang Di, Yongji Canal was built, and a section of Shandong Province was built by using the old Tunshihe Road which diverged from the Yellow River.

The third burst of dike and diversion was in the period of Wang Mang. The Yellow River burst in the west of Linzhang, Hebei Province today and rushed to the Luochuan Ancient Road in the southeast. From today's Henan, Shandong, Yanggu and Liaocheng all the way through Shandong Huimin and other places, and finally into the ocean until Lijin. After 60 years, the Yellow River was not blocked.

During the period of Song Renzong in AD 1048, the Yellow River burst again, washed away a section of Puyang, Henan Province, and went straight to Daming, Hebei Province, where it merged into the Weihe River and flowed into the sea. The northern song dynasty called this section of the river? Beiliu? . Twelve years later, the Yellow River diverted through Shandong at this huge mouth, which was also called "Yellow River" by Song people. East flow? .

In the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to resist the attack of the Nomads, the general guarding the city dug a river embankment in Huazhou area to divert the Yellow River water, which changed the route of the Yellow River water flowing into the Bohai Sea and flowed into the Yellow Sea Basin from south.