1494 Yellow River flood
The 1494 Yellow River flood was a natural disaster in China during the Ming dynasty.
Flood relief was directed by the grand eunuch , who founded the city of Anping and established temples to the river god there and at . He shifted the channel of the Yellow River past Xuzhou and Huaian, limiting the severity of the river's floods over the next few decades and establishing the general course of the river until the floods of the 1850s.[1]
References[]
- ^ Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry. SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies: The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty. SUNY Press, 1996. ISBN 0791426874, 9780791426876. Accessed 16 Oct 2012.
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