长江,哺育了沿江两岸的代代子孙,也给中下游地区带来了深重的灾难。自汉代到清末的2100年间,长江洪灾200多次,平均不到十年泛滥一次。1860年和1870年,长江洪水两次给富庶的江南带来了灭顶之灾。本世纪30年代的两次大洪水,就吞噬了近30万人的生命。仅1931年的大水灾就遍及7省205个县,淹没良田5000多万亩,灾民超过2800万人,被淹死的就有14.5万。1954年,尽管党领导人民与长江洪水进 The Yangtze River, which has nurtured generations of children along the river, has also brought deep disasters to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. From 2100 in the Han Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, the Yangtze River suffered more than 200 floods, with an average of less than 10 years. In 1860 and 1870, the floods of the Yangtze River twice brought floods to the rich south of the Yangtze River. The two major floods of the 1930s consumed nearly 300,000 people. Only the 1931 floods spread to 205 counties in seven provinces, drowning more than 50 million acres of fertile land, and the number of victims was over 28 million, and there were 145,000 drowned. In 1954, although the party led the people and flooded the Yangtze River