"The thing about rivers is not how to tame them, but how to learn to live with them," says writer and historian Chen Pan. There should always be a safety margin maintained between man and water; people can no longer simply occupy the rivers 'space, but must allow rivers to reclaim their natural territory.
「河川的問題不在整治，而是如何與之相處，」文史工作者陳板指出，人水之間本應有安全範圍，人類不能再佔據河川地，將河流的還給河流。