Tashan weir
The Tashan weir ( Chinese 它 山 堰 , Pinyin Tāshān yàn , English Tashan Weir ) on the Tashan Mountains ( Chinese 它 山 , Pinyin Tā shān ) in the west of the large community of Yinjiang ( 鄞 江镇 ) of the Haishu district in the west of Ningbo in the east Chinese province of Zhejiang was built in the year 833 in the time of the Tang Dynasty under the direction of Wang Yuanwei to prevent the penetration of the salty tidal water over the Fenghua River ( Chinese 奉化 江 , Pinyin Fènghuà jiāng , English Fenghua River ) and around To store water for dry seasons, it later became part of an irrigation system, but today it is mostly silted up.
It is 113.73 m long and 4.8 m wide. It was built from 2.3 m long, 1 m wide and 0.3 m thick stones.
Along with the Zheng Guo Canal , the Lingqu Canal, and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System , it is one of the four major hydraulic engineering projects of ancient China.
The Tashan Weir has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (3-55) since 1988 .
Web links
- Tashan Weir - English
Footnotes
- ↑ The character 它 is also often read as “tuo”.
- ↑ Tashan Weir ( Memento from September 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 29 ° 46 ′ 10.5 ″ N , 121 ° 20 ′ 50 ″ E