Decoration

Decoration

Chen Huang (1637-1688), the word Tianyi, one for Tianyi, No. shengzhai. Xiushui (now Jiaxing, Zhejiang) people. It is said that Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province) was a famous official in the Qing Dynasty. He didn't like eight part essay when he was young. When he was young, he studied irrigation and water conservancy books, and went to Ningxia, Hetao and other places for on-the-spot investigation.

From 1659 to 1677, the Yellow River, Huaihe River and canal burst year after year, Haikou was blocked, canal navigation was cut off, water transport was blocked, and a large area of fertile land became a state of glory. In the 16th year of Kangxi, Jin Fu, the governor of the river, saw Chen Huang's wall poems when he passed Handan. He found that Chen Huang had learned a lot from others, so he went into the curtain to help control the water. In order to make a plan for the river control project, Chen Huang trekked hundreds of miles up and down. In terms of management methods, it inherits and develops pan Jixun's river management theory of "building dykes to restrain water and attacking sand with water", which is a famous river management expert in Ming Dynasty. It advocates the combination of "diversion" and "confluence", taking "diversion to kill the situation" as an emergency measure when the river rises sharply, and taking "confluence to attack sand" as a long-term arrangement. In the specific practice, the construction of reducing dam and excavation of river approach are adopted. In order to maintain a certain flow rate of the main river, the "water measurement method" was invented, which put the theory of "water beam attacking sediment" on a more scientific basis. Because of Chen Huang's good guidance, he was in charge of harnessing the Yellow River.

In the 26th year of Kangxi (1687), he was awarded the title of Chen Huang Qian by Jin Fu Bao. Since then, in order to eradicate the Yellow River and Huaihe River, Chen Huang broke the traditional method of "preventing the river and ensuring its transportation" since ancient times, and put forward the idea of "thoroughly" harnessing the Yellow River and Huaihe River, that is, to carry out "unified planning, source and flow control" in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and Huaihe River, which was not adopted by the imperial court. In the 27th year, Jin Fu and Chen Huang were impeached on the charge of "disturbing the people by stationing farmland" and were dismissed from their posts. Soon, he died in Beijing. He is the author of river defense Shuyan and river defense abstract, which are attached to Jin Fu's general plan for river control.

Life of the characters

Chen Huang was very intelligent and learned since he was a child. He was an expert in river management in the early Qing Dynasty.

In 1671, when Jin Fu was on his way to Anhui Province as governor, he passed Handan, Hebei Province. There was a poem inscribed on the wall of Lu Zuan: "in forty years, the Duke and the Marquis were romantic even though they were dreams. I'm so down in Handan that I want to borrow a pillow for my husband. After inquiry, it was inscribed by the decoration of Lu Zuan. When they met, they were very congenial. Jin Fu asked them to make a curtain. After Jin was appointed governor of the river, Chen Huang went with him. Jin Fu would ask questions about the river management, and Chen Huang would answer them wholeheartedly. Therefore, Jin Fu's achievements in river control over the past ten years were all planned by Chen Huang.

In the 23rd year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi went to the south to inspect the working hours and asked Jin Fu, "you must be assisted by the people of Botong ancient and modern times." Jin Fu said: "there is one person who is familiar with politics, that is, Chen Huang. All the officials who are in charge of the business are planning for the decoration." He also said: "if a minister is old and ill, and if he can't drive away even if he fills a ditch or is sick, he will still have to be decorated in the curtain to succeed him." The Emperor allowed him to give Chen Huangjin the title of minister and counsellor of river affairs. His idea of river management is "in view of the ancient rather than sticking to the ancient". And said: "some must learn from the ancients, some must drink from the present." "We should always make the best use of the situation and adjust measures to the circumstances."

Chen Huang offended landlords and gentry in the matter of land reclamation, and was taken part by Guo Xiu, the censor of Jiangnan Road. He was demoted on the charge of "robbing the people's land and falsely claiming to be land reclamation" and died of hatred.

In 1692, Jin Fu fought against Zhaoxue for Chen Huangping. Zhang Aisheng, Chen's fellow countryman, compiled his treatise on river control into a book "a summary of river defense", which was used for reference by later generations.

Historical records

In the 23rd year of Kangxi's reign, he visited the river and asked, "who is your assistant?" The decoration is right. Twenty six years, Fu Shuyan ten years, sago hardworking, the lower part of the discussion, granted the title of decoration money. In the 27th year, Guo Xiu impeached Fu and left Lianhuang. After that, he reduced his title and arrested the capital. He was not imprisoned and died of illness. Fu Fu Qi, Shu invited Fu Huang Guan, the Ministry of interior decoration has died, sleep its play.

work

Chen Huang's works are "river defense Shuyan" and "river defense abstract", which are attached to Jin Fu's "river control strategy".

Chinese PinYin : Chen Huang