When this led to heavy flooding, officials petitioned the emperor to strictly forbid the draining of lakes. So it went, back and forth, for the next seven centuries, as reclamation and prohibition continued to clash.
此後，歷經元、明、清三朝、及至民國，以洞庭為首的長江諸湖，就在墾墾禁禁的爭執中度過。