56 双语 Dujiangyan Irrigation Dan 都江堰

Around 2200 years ago a governor of Sichuan found that the floods happened frequently in the rainy season, and water storage was short during the dry season. Therefore based on the geographic features of the Minjiang River, and without doing any damage to the natural environment, he built a special structure dam. The dam is known as Dujiangyan. Dujiangyan functions to direct water and divert floods and sand. Thanks to the dam the region would no longer be plagued by flooding during the rainy season, and water supply will be sufficient in the dry season. Dujiangyan has functioned for more than 2200 years even the earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale in 2008 which happened near the dam, didn’t destroy it. Dujiangyan reflects the idea that the land, water and people can live in harmony.