Water and Chengdu - Chengdu's Urban Water Culture

Author: Xu Rongsheng
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Water is the lifeline of urban life and the cradle of urban civilization. Chengdu is a city born of water, flourished by water, challenged by water, and glorified by water. It has developed and formed according to the natural philosophy model of "The highest virtue is like water · Nurturing civilization · Civilized city." This book weaves a beautiful tapestry of Chengdu's economic, social, and cultural development with the "bone and flesh" of water as its thread. Its success lies precisely in this: Chengdu's city is made of "water's bone and flesh," it is Chengdu nurtured by water, and it is the Tianfu blessed by water. This book takes "water" as the key to solving the cultural puzzle of Chengdu, interpreting Chengdu's water culture, and truly grasps the core and soul of Chengdu's urban culture. The author of this book is not afraid of the difficulties, dedicated to the study of Chengdu's water culture, absorbing and summarizing the academic achievements of various scholars, sorting out the context, elevating it, and has done a good job, achieving new harvests.