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A Tourist Guide to Dujiangyan China


A full view of the headwork of the Dujiangyan Irrigation System
Historically and Culturally Famous city at state level the state-level scenic spots china's excellent tourist city

Dujiangyan Irrigation System lies on the Minjiang River in the northwest of Dujiangyan City Sichuan China.It was built over 2,200 years ago around 250 B.C. under the direction of LiBing, the governor of the Shu Prefecture of the Qin State.

The Minjiang River running across the vast Chengdu Plain used to do harm to the people down the river in the ancient times.After making careful survey on the spot Li Bing had a channel cut through Mount Yulei in the west of the city,thus a man-made river came into existence. In the middle of the Minjiang River,a dyke was built to divede the river into two parts:the inner river and the outer river.In order to control flood and charge silt,two spillways were built at the end of water-dividing dyke.Since then there has been a gravity irrigation system which makes the Chengdu Plain a "Land of Abundance" with a bumper harvest every year in spite of any drought or flood.

Over two thousand years,the Dujiangyan Irrigation System has been bringing gregt benefits to agricultural production and the people's life.The irrigated area has expanded gradually from 126,000 hectares to nearly 660,000 hectares of land, covering 36 counties and cities.

During the long course of maintenance of the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, a set of offective experience in controlling.
Water has been summed up,such as "Dredging the sand deeper and building the dam lower","Taking away the capes where the river curves, and digging the middle of the riverbed deep where the river does not curve", and other instructions.

Erwang temple abounds in rare cultural relics and was built to commemorate LiBing and his son. It is grand and solemn.

Fulong Temple stands at the top of Lidui, a hill separated from mount Yulei. The temple is said to have been the place where Li Bing, governor of Shu Prefecture in the 250s B.C.,subdued an evil dragon while harnessing the Minjiang River,"Fulong" meaning literally "subduing dragon".