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Flood Control and Embankment Maps

河南府河圖

Map of the river systems in Henan Prefecture
Hanyu Pinyin Henan Fu he tu
Creator Anonymous
Date Qing Yongzheng to Qianlong period, 1734-1779
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Techniques Ink and color manuscript
Material silk
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Country of Repository
Identifier Library of Congress
Link to Original Database http://lccn.loc.gov/gm71005049
Acquisition Source Hummel, Arthur William, 1884-1975
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Acquisition Date 1934
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This is one of a series of eleven county river maps of Henan Prefecture. North is at the bottom. Drawn in traditional Chinese landscape style, the map depicts the mountains, cities, villages, and roads of Henan Prefecture (now Luoyang City) and ten counties in Henan Province. The map also depicts water systems and irrigation channels. The Yellow River is highlighted in yellow on the bottom of the map; the remaining tributaries are in turquoise. Prefectures, departments, and counties are represented by pictorial walls; roads are in red dotted lines. There are no annotations on the map except red text labels indicating irrigation channels and acres. The map is accompanied with the “Guide to the river maps of Henan”. The guide describes the topography, rivers, canals, dikes, embankments, and irrigation channels of the entire Henan Province.        
The map can be studied with the following maps in the National Palace Museum's collection: title: Henan quan sheng dao li tu (map no. 021578- 021579); title: Huang He fa yuan zhi Henan Sheng ge ting gong cheng qing xing tu (map no. 020882); title: Henan Kaifeng Fu dao li tu (map no. 021435); title: Henan Zhangde Fu dao li tu (map no. 021436); title: Henan Weihui Fu dao li tu (map no. 021437); title: Henan Henan Fu dao li tu (map no. 021438); title: Henan Nanyang Fu dao li tu (map no. 021439); title: Henan Runing Fu dao li tu (map no. 021440); title: Henan Ruzhou Fu dao li tu (map no. 021441); title: Henan Huaining Fu dao li tu (map no. 021442); title: Shanxi Lu'an Fu tu (map no. 021443); title: Bei an si ting gong cheng zong he tu (map no. 020890); title: Henan Sheng di tu (map no. 021446).