China's Incredible 2000 Year Old Irrigation System // This is China
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2017
- The Dujiangyan Irrigation System is the world's oldest non-dam irrigation system that's still in use. It was built around 256 BC, over 2000 years ago. The system has survived earthquakes, wars, and time. To this day, it helps to make Sichuan province the most agriculturally productive province in China. In this video, I breakdown how the Dujiangyan Irrigation system works.
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I found out about this wonderful achievement by Li Bing from reading about Joseph Needham who traveled to China with a team to learn and write about the scientific history of China. Excellent video about it.
Thank you! This helped me understand how the system works
Love the history! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching. There's tons of history in China, but a lot of it has be shined up to look new or just forgotten. I recently visited a museum that has a huge collection of artifacts from the oldest known civilization in Sichuan. Stay tuned for that video.
water come from spring snow melt is crystal clear.
3:36 "帅哥的要多一点"
"give the handsome guy the bigger one"
That's great. We were wondering why she switched them - I should of known that it had something to do with my handsomeness ;)
Itchy Feet on the Cheap that's just a polite way calling a guy, owner just worried that lady can't eat up that much.
谢谢您的翻译，要不然痒脚夫人真以为我们热心的老板娘在她碗里吐痰了。😝
Amazing, love it.
great communicator
Nice video thank you sir
beautiful
深淘滩，低作堰。
逢正抽心，遇弯截角。
锦江春色自天地，玉垒浮云变古今。
It's a breath taking center
顶~~~~~加油~~~
👍
Why this river isn't fierce and thus can not demonstrate vividly how this system works anymore is because there is a big high dam build just 1 hour drive away into the mountain. if you see the height of the dam, people will get a sense why this irrigation system is needed. Zipingpu dam (紫坪铺水坝)czcams.com/video/67isxB5Tlvw/video.html in this video I think it only shows the inner side of the dam because I assure you when i see it myself the outside is easily more than 100 meters high and much narrower and deep for the outer side. this is a controvisial dam, locals outside chengdu doesn't know about it. but it is impressive
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipingpu_Dam
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%AB%E5%9D%AA%E9%93%BA%E6%B0%B4%E5%88%A9%E6%9E%A2%E7%BA%BD
Yup
do you know kallani in tamilnadu built 2000 year ago
李冰父子，千秋
Checkout wise up channel your just guessing
Expat aka immigrant.
So what happens to the downstream ecosystems? Screwed, I guess.
No, just the opposite. The apportionment of water throughout the year allows for agricultural irrigation of what was previously flood melt and silting of channels that further impeded agricultural water use.
Why would she spit in your noodles? What did you do to make you suspect she did? Typical...
It was a joke. Sometimes people say outrageous things cause other people get a laugh out of it.