8046 | Wenjiang Banyan Tree Resort – Commercial Phase One Concept Landscape Design Report | 12 Mar 2015 温江悦榕庄综合发展项目 Banyan Tree Mixed Development at Wenjiang 商业一期景观概念设计报告 Commercial Phase One Concept Landscape Design Report 8046 | 12 March 2015 Commercial Phase One Concept Design Major Landscape Features – Dujiangyan Dujiangyan is an irrigation infrastructure built in 256 BC during the Warring States Period of China by the Kingdom of Qin. It is located in the Min in Sichuan province, China, near the capital Chengdu. It is still in use today to irrigate over 5,300 square kilometers of land in the region.The Dujiangyan along with the Zhengguo Canal in Shaanxi Province and the Lingqu Canal in Guangxi Province are known as “The three great hydraulic engineering projects of the Qin Dynasty”. 8046 | Wenjiang Banyan Tree Resort – Commercial Phase One Concept Landscape Design Report | 12 Mar 2015 During the Warring States period (406–221 BC), people who lived along the banks of the Min River were plagued by annual flooding. Qin governor Lǐ Bīng investigated the problem and discovered that the river was swelled by fast flowing spring melt-water from the local mountains that burst the banks when it reached the slow moving and heavily silted stretch below.One solution would have been to build a dam but Li Bing had also been charged with keeping the waterway open for military vessels to supply troops on the frontier. so instead he proposed to construct an artificial levee to redirect a portion of the river's flow and then to cut a channel through Mount Yulei to discharge the excess water upon the dry Chengdu Plain beyond. 8046 | Wenjiang Banyan Tree Resort – Commercial Phase One Concept Landscape Design Report | 12 Mar 2015 Commercial Phase One Concept Design Major Landscape Features – Dujiangyan 。。。以下略