Ming Dynasty The Yellow River Flood Unnatural Causes And The Impact Of Environmental Changes On Regional Geography

The realm about huanghe flood research has been paid attention to by many waterpower scientist and science and technology history scientist all through the ages. Huanghe flood is concern to the national economy and the people's livelihood. It has been attached important to by the feudal dynasties of past ages. This research has very important theory significant not only to the field of the history of Chinese waterpower, but to the structure of our society develop that can be continued, the protecting of ecology environment, and to the developing between people and society.This article attempt to illustrate the relation between the huanghe harnessing of ming-dynasty and the ming-dynasty's political, economy the thoughts of huanghe harnessing at first. Try to show the reasons of the flood at ming-dynasty. Except natural factors, social factors may be made the more important effect. Just because of this reason, the huanghe river flooded more often and serious, and more difficult to be harnessed. On the other hand, this result affected geography environment in the henan huaibei area very much. All through the ming-dynasty, huanghe flooding and its harnessing always disturb ming-dynasty government. It is not only important to research the reasons of huanghe flooding, but to protect the environment and structure the harmony society.This article think it is a serious natural calamity of huanghe flood, but its happened is not isolated. It is influenced by many elements: one is directly, for example, the principle of protecting water transport of grain to the capital and imperial tomb; the other is indirectly: through influencing the geography environment, for example, the people migrating; opening up virgin soil broad in scale. etc.Huanghe flood also influenced the natural environment and the social life in the area, they influenced and piled up each other. The huanghe flood in the lower influenced the landform, the lake upon the surface and the river upon the surface in this area. In the social life, it have influenced the cultivation system and cultivation breed. This article wants to give some comments on the relation between the huanghe flood and the geography environment.