The 1494 Yellow River flood was a
natural disaster in
China during the
Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han peo ...
.
Flood relief was directed by the grand eunuch
Li Xing, who founded the city of
Anping and established temples to the river god there and at
Huanglinggan. He shifted the channel of the Yellow River past
Xuzhou
Xuzhou (徐州), also known as Pengcheng (彭城) in ancient times, is a major city in northwestern Jiangsu province, China. The city, with a recorded population of 9,083,790 at the 2020 census (3,135,660 of which lived in the built-up area ma ...
and
Huaian
Huai'an (), formerly called Huaiyin () until 2001, is a prefecture-level city in the central part of Jiangsu province in Eastern China. Huai'an is situated almost directly south of Lianyungang, southeast of Suqian, northwest of Yancheng, almo ...
, limiting the severity of the river's floods over the next few decades and establishing the general course of the river until the floods of the 1850s.
[Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry. ''SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies'': ]
The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty
'. SUNY Press, 1996. , 9780791426876. Accessed 16 Oct 2012.
References
Disasters in Ming dynasty
Yellow River Flood, 1494
Yellow River Flood, 1494
Yellow River floods
15th-century floods
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