In August 2018, Lingqu was selected for what heritage

August 13, 2018, Lingqu.

and 4 other projects were included in the 2018 (fifth batch) World Irrigation Engineering Heritage List.

Ling Canal, in ancient times, was known as Qin Chisel Canal, Zero Canal, Steep River, Xing'an Canal.

The Xianggui Canal is ancient China.

A great project created by working people. Located in Xing'an County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, it was chiseled into navigation in 214 BC. The Ling Canal flows from east to west, connecting the Haiyang River (Xiangjiang River) to the east of Xing'an County.

The head, flowing from south to north) and the Darong River (the source of the Li River, flowing from north to south) in the west of Xing'an County, is one of the oldest canals in the world, and has the reputation of "the pearl of ancient water conservancy architecture in the world".

The main project of the Ling Canal is composed of the ploughshare, the big balance, the small balance, the south canal, the north canal, the discharge balance, the culvert, the steep gate, the weir dam, the Qin embankment, the bridge and other parts, although the construction time is different, but they are related to each other and become an indispensable part of the Ling Canal.

Extended Materials. There are a total of 36 steep gates in the north and south canals (including 4 in the north canal and 32 in the south canal).

South Steep, Ma's Bridge Steep, Dawan Steep, Zuwan (Yinwan) Steep, Taiping Steep, Iron Furnace Steep, Heshang (Monk, Heshang) Steep, Sanli (Turtle) Steep, Yin Steep, Dalu Steep, Junjia Steep, Xiayun (Xiaying Knife Board) Steep, Yellow Ni Steep, Sand and Mud Steep, Threshold (Threshold) Steep, Fourteen Steep, Fifteen Steep, Sixteen Steep (Laundry Steep), Seventeen Steep (Shrimp Toad Steep), Xiaman (Small Shrimp Toad) Steep, New Steep (Sunning Valley Steep);

Niu Road is steep (broken steep), Lin Mountain (Ling Mountain, Yun Mountain) is steep, and Xingqiao.

Steep, bamboo (bamboo root) steep, bluestone (green mud) steep, small steep, big steep, ancient cattle (Guniu) steep, Luantang (old beach, upper steep) steep, talc (new beach, lower steep) steep, Niujiao (Niujiao Bay) steep destroyed, North steep, Bay steep (Bay Bridge steep), Sunhe steep, Hejia steep.

Ling Canal is the world's first mountain cross-ridge canal, but also the world's earliest use of locks (steep gates) of the canal, has the world's "father of locks" reputation, is one of the earliest use of artificial canals in human history to connect two different water systems, in 1988 included in the national key cultural relics protection units. In 2006 and 2012, Lingqu was included in the tentative list of China's world cultural heritage, and in 2018, it was included in the list of world irrigation engineering heritage, becoming the first world irrigation engineering heritage project in Guangxi.

Located in Xing'an County, Guilin, with a total length of one kilometer, Lingqu is an ancient canal connecting the Xiangjiang River and the Li River, the Yangtze River Basin and the Pearl River Basin, the Central Plains and the Lingnan Region. After Qin unified the six countries, in order to consolidate the southern frontier defense to dig a canal, it was built in 214 BC, the original name was Qin Dig Canal, and then according to the Tang Dynasty Guizhou Thorn Shi Yu Meng Wei's "Guizhou Rebuild Ling Canal Record", it is called Ling Canal.

The Ling Canal is a canal dug under extremely harsh natural conditions. Looking at ancient and modern times, there is no canal in the world that is earlier than the construction of the Ling Canal.

Xing'an County, located in the northern region of Guangxi, is surrounded by mountains and rivers. In the southeast of Xing'an County, there is one of the five ridges, Du Pang Ling. To the south, the Ocean Mountain winds its way.

In the northwest of Xing'an County, it is located in the Yuecheng Ridge. Therefore, the topography of Hung Yen has a significant characteristic: that is, the southeast is high in the south and low in the north, and the northwest is high in the north and low in the south.

Therefore, in the waist of Xing'an County, a lowland with an altitude of only about 200 meters is formed, which is the famous Xianggui Corridor.

It has always been a traffic artery from Hunan to Guangxi. Due to this feature of the topography of Xing'an, the characteristics of the water system boundary are naturally formed: the Xiangjiang River, which flows to Hunan, originates from Haiyang Mountain, flows from south to north to the vicinity of Xing'an County, along the Xianggui corridor, enters Hunan through Quanzhou, and flows into Dongting Lake; The famous Li River in Guangxi originates from Mao'er Mountain, the main peak of Yuecheng Ridge, flows south to Xing'an Rongjiang, passes through Lingchuan and Guilin, joins Xijiang in Wuzhou, and flows into the South China Sea in Guangdong.