Show river kept in order by chinese engineer in slew lew of the disastrous mississippi hoods floods it Is interesting to note that 2100 years ago a chinese engineer ll li plus laid down the correct engineering principle for controlling the hood flood conditions of a river flowing through a flat alluvial plain the works that he and his sons established for controlling tile the waters of tile atin river in Wall province nee and distributing dib them across acro 4 s the great chengfu plain are still in perfect operation tile the plain Is an area too rr arile Ile long ion anil and sixty sity miles wide across this hiis plain the min river Is distributed in eight main brandies bra converging at the lower end of the plain to form a single river again bilich into th tb yang lse above the gorges gor throughout the 2100 years tile the en gingering gI principle laid down by ll 11 without which the whole system would have destroyed itself aso ago has been followed flood conditions are arc still unknown on OIT tile the walls of the temple built to the nier nory of liping lipin LI ping pin and tits his sons at kunn kuan kislen Is written this saying familiar to every chinese student shen tao van tun tso ISO Y jsn meaning dig the bed deep keep it the banks low ilane apolis tribune |