Kaifeng underwater photography

Historically, Kaifeng City was flooded by the Yellow River six times.

The Bianjing Confucian Temple in Jin Zhenyuan (12 13) was rebuilt into Bianliang Road School in Yuan Dynasty (1264), and the school temple was flooded repeatedly. First, in the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1344), the Yellow River burst the capital of song dynasty and Gong Xue was flooded. In the third year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1370), it was renamed Kaifengfu Confucianism. In the twentieth year of Hongwu (1387) and the twenty-third year of Hongwu (1390), the official Confucianism flooded twice.

In the fifth year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1407), Kaifeng Confucianism was moved to the northwest of Lijingmen (Songmen), and the Yellow River burst its banks in the fifth year of Shunshun tomorrow (146 1), and Kaifeng Confucianism was flooded again.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1642), the imperial army first entered the Yellow River and flooded the peasant army of Zhuang Wang. Later, the peasant army of Zhuang Wang burst and drowned the imperial army of the Ming Dynasty. The whole Kaifeng city was destroyed and all the Confucian temples were submerged underground. Until the ninth year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1652), Zhu Zhiyao, the magistrate of Kaifeng, moved the Confucian Temple to this temple street.

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After the looting in Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Xian Tong, the largest city in the world, and Bianjing, the richest city in the world, began to decline, but it was the flood or man-made disaster that really brought Kaifeng down. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the peasant rebels in Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, but they met with desperate resistance. In March, they failed to capture Kaifeng. Later, someone thought of opening the Yellow River and flooding Kaifeng.

Whether the dying loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty or the brutal Li Zicheng Rebel committed this crime is controversial in the history books. It is recorded that both sides are digging the Yellow River levee, but no matter who they are, they are unforgivable sinners. After the Yellow River burst, it was like a huge thunder rushing in, and the whole Kaifeng was flooded, only the gatehouse of the city wall and the roof of Suoguo Temple were faintly visible. After the flood,

Only 20,000-30,000 people escaped from Kaifeng City, which became not only a ruin, but also a hell on earth. Kaifeng City was buried several meters underground by yellow sand, and even the tall Maitreya Buddha in Suoguo Temple could only see its head and fingers, as if in silence for the victims. Nowadays, the octagonal glazed hall of Suoguo Temple is mostly buried underground, and later generations try to improve it.

Phoenix Henan Net-Reading Kaifeng: The Confucian Temple in Kaifeng was flooded by the Yellow River six times.