1452 Yellow River floods

Natural disasters in China The 1452 Yellow River floods were major natural disasters affecting hundreds of thousands of farmers along the Yellow River in Shandong and Henan, as well as the Huai River valley. The first flood destroyed the extensive public works created at Shawan just four years before as a result of the 1448 flood at Linqing. The silt flooded into the Grand Canal in Shandong required major effort to repair. After the earthworks had been repaired, the Jingtai Emperor ordered the construction of two temples one at Heiyangshan and the other at Shawan and committed himself to praying personally to the river gods for flood prevention.Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry. SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies: The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty. SUNY Press, 1996. 0791426874, 9780791426876. Accessed 16 Oct 2012. By the sixth lunar month, the northern bank burst at Shawan again and the entire Grand Canal fleet was stranded by the sand thrown into its course. See also 1448 Yellow River flood 1453 Yellow River flood References 2 Category:Disasters in the Ming dynasty Yellow River Floods, 1452 Yellow River Floods, 1452 Category:Yellow River floods Category:15th-century floods