History of Yellow River Changes

"The History of the Changes of the Yellow River" is a work that explores the history of the changes of the Yellow River for three thousand years.

Mr. Cen Zhongmian started from the problem of Emperor Sui Yang's excavation of Tongji Canal, traced back to "Shangshu Yugong", "Historical Records Hequshu" and "Shuijing Zhu", trying to understand the truth of the ancient Yellow River. On the basis of extensive collection of historical materials about the Yellow River in historical annals of previous dynasties and reference to private writings, after careful sorting and analysis, many entangled issues about the Yellow River in history have been basically clarified, such as the origin of the Yellow River's "heavy source theory", The history and how it was broken, when was "Yu Gong" written, what was the relationship between the frequent relocation of the capital of the Yin and Shang Dynasty and the Yellow River, the old course of the Yellow River before it moved in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and how the various dynasties managed and utilized the Yellow River for more than two thousand years from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty Combined, the course of the Yellow River changed before the Yuan Dynasty, why there were many rivers in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and so on. In the book, Mr. Cen Zhongmian also judged and summarized the experience of river control in the past dynasties, such as the views on river control, the development of river control technology, etc., and provided valuable advice for the control of the Yellow River. As soon as the book was published, it had an important impact on the field of water conservancy and history, and was hailed as "a great book for the systematic study of the Yellow River problem".