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22 Ιουλ 2022 · China’s Grand Canal was constructed nearly 2,500 years ago, and still serves as a vital waterway that links China’s south to the north today. What a piece of Ancient China is known for its famous dynasties, rich culture, and some of the first “advanced” technological innovations in the world.
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Canals have been used since ancient times to carry water where it is needed or allow transportation where natural waterways do not go. The canal lock was developed in China, and first used in Europe during the Middle Ages. Locks enable ships to go from one water level to another, thus making many more transportation routes possible.
The history of canals in China connecting its major rivers and centers of agriculture and population extends from the legendary exploits of Yu the Great in his attempts control the flooding of the Yellow River to the present infrastructure projects of the People's Republic of China.
The Grand Canal (Chinese: 大运河; pinyin: Dà yùnhé) is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport infrastructure between the north and the south during Medieval and premodern China.
5 ημέρες πριν · During the North Song Dynasty (960-1127), Han Gou had the world's earliest ship lock. Later, the canal became an important part of the Grand Canal linking Beijing and Hangzhou during the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). Hong Gou. Hong Gou (Hong Canal) was China 's earliest man-made canal linking the Yellow River and the Huaihe River.
It started from the excavation of canals between adjacent watersheds, and finally formed nowa-days national water transport network with the Beijing-Hangzhou Great Canal as the backbone to connect all the major water systems in China.
This type of lock, called a pound lock was known in Imperial China and ancient Europe [45] and was used by Greek engineers in the Canal of the Pharaohs under Ptolemy II (284 to 246 BC), when engineers solved the problem of overcoming the difference in height through canal locks.
