Delight.Over 2000 years ago, the authorities in Dujiangyan Dujiangyan (Chinese: 都江堰; pinyin: Dū Jiāng Yàn) is a city located in the central part of the Sichuan Province in China. The Dujiangyan Irrigation System, located in the northwestern area of the city, is famous for still providing City in Chendu, Sichuan Province built one of the wonders of early Chinese agriculture. The Dujiangyan weir allowed irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. of the whole Chendu Basin using a system in which water was divided among different irrigation canals using 'fish mouths' made of woven A woven is a cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the Bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic. Woven cloth usually frays at the edges, unless measures are taken to counter this, such as the use of pinking shears or hemming. bamboo bamboo, plant of the family Gramineae (grass family), chiefly of warm or tropical regions, where it is sometimes an extremely important component of the vegetation. It is most abundant in the monsoon area of E Asia. and stones. The weir is still there, and in use. It is now a World Heritage site and a national treasure. Local prosperity has allowed the old texture of Dujiangyan to be restored and repaired, and one of the new interventions is an urban park which, appropriately, celebrates water. The element gently flows and sparkles down the spiral spiral /spi·ral/ (spi´ral) 1. helical; winding like the thread of a screw. 2. helix; a winding structure. that grows wider as it descends. A very simple paving treatment, what the designers call 'small fish mouths', creates a surface which causes constantly-changing ripples that reflect ever-moving light. Clearly, the park is popular, and it appeals to people of all ages. The jury was greatly taken with the simplicity, efficacy and elegance of the woven water device, but refrained from giving the fish mouths an award because of doubts about the apparently rather trite design of the park--perhaps we simply did not have enough information about the whole project. |
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