Grand Canal

English Grand Canal,Canal Grande,Grand Canal (China) Etymology channel in Venice, Italy en it Canal Grande. Proper noun 1 grand canal en channel city/Venice c/Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. en 1721 w:John Senex A New General Atlas, Containing A Geographical And Historical Account Of All The Empires, Kingdoms And Other Dominions Of The World https://archive.org/details/new-general-atlas-by-john-senex/ London 422277841 164 https://archive.org/details/new-general-atlas-by-john-senex/page/n238/ The Buildings are generally lofty and beautiful eſpecially on the Grand Canal, over which the Bridge called Rialto exceeds all the reſt, is built of white Marble, and conſiſts of one Arch 95 foot long and 24 high. en July 24, 2007 David Lague On an Ancient Canal, Grunge Gives Way to Grandeur w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150527004942/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/world/asia/24canal.html 27 May 2015 0362-4331 1645522 Hangzhou Journal Until the early 1990s, crews on barges and boats chugging down China’s 2,400-year-old Grand Canal did not need familiar landmarks to tell them they were approaching the scenic city of Hangzhou.They could smell it.“The water was black,” said Zhu Jianbai, assistant director of the city government’s Grand Canal Restoration and Development Group. “There was no life in it. If you lived beside it, you had to live with the stink.”The Duke of Wu began work on what became the Grand Canal in 486 B.C., but it was not until the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan moved the capital to Beijing and straightened the canal that it became a direct north-south waterway.The wood used in building the Ming tombs on the outskirts of Beijing was transported down the Yangtze River from Yunnan and Sichuan provinces and then up the Grand Canal to the capital. en channel c/China. en 1832 June Ta-tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever." By Le Ming-che Tsing-lae. w:The Chinese Repository https://archive.org/details/chineserepositor1218unse/ Canton I 2 1554371 38–39 https://archive.org/details/chineserepositor1218unse/page/38/ The Grand Canal, in Chinese Yun-ho, or ‘the Transit river,’ is of much more importance to the inland trade than either of the two great rivers of China. en 1965 Samuel C. Chu Reformer in Modern China, Chang Chien, 1853-1926 https://archive.org/details/reformerinmodern0000unse/ w:Columbia University Press 65-10541 760522897 14725503M 150 https://archive.org/details/reformerinmodern0000unse/page/150/ Now the group of forty graduates were put to work as a partial solution to the shortage,¹³ and he went ahead with the establishment of a surveying bureau at Ch’ing-chiang-p’u, where the Grand Canal crosses the former course of the Yellow River. en 1970 Ying-wan Cheng Postal Communication in China and its Modernization, 1860-1896 https://archive.org/details/postalcommunicat0000chen/ Cambridge, Massachusetts w:Harvard University Press 0-674-69320-5 70-120316 906049572 5700344M 65 https://archive.org/details/postalcommunicat0000chen/page/65/ Couriers rode on donkeys or mules and usually covered part of the distance—between Yangchow and Chinkiang, and when the wind was favorable also between Yangchow and Ch’ing-chiang-p’u—by boat on the Grand Canal. en August 9, 2007 China worries about how to protect Grand Canal w:Reuters https://archive.ph/dVyfo May 25, 2024 https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSPEK6754/ The Grand Canal was completed in 608 A.D. during the reign of Sui Emperor Yangdi to connect the fertile rice paddies south of the Yangtze with the capital 1,800 km (1,100 miles) to the north. en 04 January 2017 Sidney Leng Dumping of untreated acid in Chinese canal highlights nation’s water pollution woes w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20170104175028/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2059329/dumping-untreated-acid-chinese-canal-highlights-nations-water-pollution https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2059329/dumping-untreated-acid-chinese-canal-highlights-nations-water-pollution January 04, 2017 1563-9371 648902513 China A Jiangsu chemical plant has been fined 20 million yuan (US$2.88 million) for dumping almost 2,700 tonnes of liquid acid waste into the Grand Canal, causing environmental damage “beyond measure”, according to a local court verdict that was published recently. en January 16, 2022 01/14/2022 Cultural and creative industries shine in Jining, a city rich in culture and history https://web.archive.org/web/20220530103418/https://apnews.com/article/technology-religion-china-confucianism-f17d6312e82e69bd4cf9c88c2e23e2b9 30 May 2022 Prodigy News, AP News Jining is the most important transit hub between China’s northern and southern cultures as it sits in the middle of the significant Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. en Translations canal Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 大運河 Dàyùnhé Esperanto: eo Granda Kanalo Japanese: ja Further reading en 2008 Grand Canal Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1405 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1405/ 1 pn Grand Canal of China