According to legend, at the end of primitive society four or five thousand years ago, a particularly big flood occurred in the Central Plains of China. Floods flooded the land, washed away crops, houses collapsed, people and animals died, there were white waves everywhere, and all the living people ran to the hills or mountains to take refuge. At this time, there was a hero named Dayu who was in charge of water conservancy. It is said that he rummaged through the house three times and didn't go in. He symbolizes the indomitable fighting spirit of the people of China in overcoming floods.
As the mother river of the Chinese nation, the Yellow River is more seriously damaged by water than the Yangtze River. In history, there were more than 500 breaches/kloc-0, and 26 major diversions, with an average breach every three years and major diversions every 100 years. 1 1 17 years (Song Huizong Zhenghe seven years), the Yellow River burst and drowned1000000 people. In A.D. 1642 (Chongzhen 15), the Yellow River flooded, with 370,000 people in Kaifeng and 340,000 people drowned. 1933 62 breaches of the Yellow River. 1938, Chiang Kai-shek opened the Yellow River levee at Huayuankou, Henan Province, causing12.5 million victims.
In the flood, big cities were not spared. According to research, floods entered Beijing five times and Tianjin was flooded eight times in history.
There have been three biggest floods in this century. Once before and twice after the founding of the People's Republic of China. 193 1 year, a major flood occurred in China, and 16 provinces were affected, among which Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Hubei and Hunan provinces were the most serious, followed by Shandong, Hebei and Zhejiang. The affected areas in eight provinces reached 1, 4 1.7 million mu, accounting for more than 1B4 of the cultivated land in eight provinces. According to statistics, half the houses were washed away, nearly half the people were displaced, and many people fled with their families. The disaster of this big flood is not isolated, but also accompanied by other natural disasters. Coupled with social unrest, the affected population reached 654.38 billion and 3.7 million people died, which is shocking. After liberation, there were two major floods in China, namely 1954 flood and 199 1 year flood. 1954 The affected area reached 240 million mu, and the disaster area1700,000 mu. The Yangtze River flooded more than 47 million mu of cultivated land, killing 33,000 people, and the Beijing-Guangzhou railway was blocked 100 days. The national natural disaster relief fund is 320 million yuan.
Other major floods include: 1958, a major flood occurred at Huayuankou of the Yellow River in Zhengzhou, and Zhengzhou Yellow River Railway Bridge was destroyed. Haihe river basin 1963 suffered a rare flood in history, with the affected area reaching 61450,000 mu and the grain output reduced by more than 6 billion Jin. The Hanjiang River 1982 flood, the longest tributary of the Yangtze River, caused heavy losses in the old town of Ankang.
1998, at the end of the century, a big flood swept almost half of China, the Yangtze River, Nenjiang River, Songhua River and other major rivers, and the water level soared. Eight million soldiers and civilians are fighting the flood to the death. According to statistics, in that year, 29 provinces and regions in China suffered from different degrees of floods, and the direct economic loss was as high as 654.38+0666 billion yuan.
The disaster affected 60 million mu, and the grain production was reduced by tens of billions of Jin.