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Baopingkou

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Water Conservancy Projects
Open year round, 24/7
Recommended sightseeing time:20-30 minutes
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Dujiangyan, Chengdu, Sichuan, ChinaMap
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The Dujiangyan Canal Head Hub Project is mainly composed of three main projects: the Canal Head Fish mouth water dike, the Feisha spillway and the Baopingkou diversion channel. These three projects, adopt the scientific method of "diversion and diversion of river, building and diverting water", have a strict structure and perfect layout, forming an organic whole that is interdependent and mutually restricted, and receives the benefits of "draining water and irrigation fields, flood diversion and mitigation". And the project is still playing a role today, known as the "Living Water Museum". It is also the oldest and only large water conservancy project in the world to date, characterized by no dam and water diversion. Aquarius, this is the key to the Dujiangyan project. The Lijiang River is running here, flowing to the vast fields and villages, benefiting all things on earth. Here is the original Lushan (now the Guankou Mountain, Yulei Mountain) stretched to the long ridge of the Lijiang River, two thousand years ago, Li Bing father and son face the unruly Lijiang water, fire attack Yulei Mountain, opened a 20 meters wide, 40 meters high, 80 meters long mouth, because of its shape as a bottleneck and function strange, later known as "bottle mouth". This treasure bottle mouth, known as the "Neijiang water diversion throat", is equivalent to the "control gate", which can automatically control the water intake of the inner river. And the original part of Lushan on the right side of the treasure bottle mouth has 42 steps, which is Li Bing and his son led the working people to open the treasure bottle mouth. The isolated pile after separating from Yulei Mountain, which was irrigated by the Lijiang River Irrigation Plain in the western Sichuan Plain. Because it is separated from the mountain, it is called off the pile. On the one hand, the excavation of the bottle mouth makes the inner river water rush here and be lifted from the pile, forming a ripple and turbulence, so that the water is more clarified, and then the entrance. During the flood period, the Neijiang River will not flood into the narrow bottle mouth in large quantities, so it has to flow back to the river from the flying sand to the outer river, and play a role of restraining gates to ensure the safety of Chengdu Plain. On the other hand, the Neijiang River water flow through the bottle mouth, and then divide into tens of millions of irrigation channels through the large trunk canals. Composing a crisscrossed fan irrigation network, making the western Sichuan plain thousands of miles of wild, agricultural production, become "the country of heaven".

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