"One of the main reasons why the Chinese people advanced south from the Yellow River to the Yangtze was to enjoy the protection from flooding afforded by the lakes of the Yangtze," Huang Juihsiang, a research fellow at the University of Hawaii, points out.
圍湖之後，江水依舊東流，只不過長江再不復騷人墨客筆下的慈母形象；它開始像黃河一樣，肆意驕縱。收拾苦果的，是兩岸農民。