Dictation: Liu Chuanfu Liu Qixing
Finishing: Duan Zugeng Duan Fugang
In 1968, the "Happy River" excavated a new river channel, and dug out a number of green striped stones carved with patterns in the northeast corner of Liu Wangzhuang Village, Danian Chen Town, Huimin County, two of which were engraved with words: Treasure Tianhua Day, Outstanding People. In the west of the merchant village, there is a well called "Mengjiajing", which was also buried at the bottom of the river because of digging the Xingfu River.
According to the memories of many people in Liuwangzhuang Village and Shangshang Village: I heard the elderly in the family say that there was originally a village in the east of Liuwangzhuang Village called "Qianding Meng", which was commonly known as "Xiaomeng's family" in the local area. This village is close to the embankment of the Yellow River, there are about 200 villagers surnamed Meng and Dong in the village, there is a temple in the south of the village, and there is a towering and lush big pine tree on both sides in front of the door. The carved pattern and lettering blue stripe stone unearthed in 1968 should be the thing in the temple from the unearthed location.
In August of the 28th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1902), the water of the Yellow River rose sharply, heavy rain poured for several days, on the night of the 13th, the embankment of the East Yellow River in Liu Wangzhuang Village broke, the small Mengjia was in the position of "dragon head", the water was high and the waves were urgent, and it was washed away instantly, and then formed a waterhole of nearly 200 acres, 10 meters deep. Many of the people who survived the victims fled the famine, and since then the village has disappeared forever in the long river of history. After more than half a year, the embankment was repaired, and after more than two years of governance by the masses, the washed out land was reclaimed. Meng's residence in Shijia Wharf and Dong's residence in Liuwangzhuang, there are about 60 descendants of Meng's and Dong's in the two places. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government has invested many times, and after several generations of hard work, after a hundred years of hard work by the villagers, the 200 pools of water pools and the surrounding land with serious desertification have become high-yield farmland with abundant grain and forests.
According to historical records: Liu Wangzhuang Village Mankou was more than 70 zhang at the beginning, and finally "the brush width is more than 180 zhang, and the water depth varies from 2 zhang to 3 zhang to 3 zhang", the water flow is turbulent, and there are too many quicksand to be able to construct. "The cost of raising and relieving the grain is huge. And the people have lost a lot...", but the imperial court used various excuses to reduce the funds again and again. Although the imperial court was corrupt and the funds for restoration and disaster relief were not in place, Zhou Fu, the governor of Shandong, "spared no effort to govern the river". "In the autumn, the Yellow River broke in Lijin, Huimin and other counties, and the two places were 200 miles apart, and the roads were too far away, so it was difficult to take care of them", in order to facilitate management, Zhou Fu, the governor of Shandong, changed the Liu Wangzhuang blockage project to the general office of river engineering in the middle reaches, and sent Ding Dayi, who was brave to do things and familiar with river affairs, to supervise it. The project was full of twists and turns, and the water potential broke the convention, first built four dams in the upstream, which took more than half a year, and after three closings, on March 18, 1903, Liu Wangzhuang broke the mouth of "closed air and cut off the flow, and the water of the whole river was returned to the Zhenghe".