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The '''1452 Yellow River floods''' were major [[natural disaster]]s affecting hundreds of thousands of farmers along the [[Yellow River]] in [[Shandong]] and [[Henan]], as well as the [[Huai River]] valley.
The first flood destroyed the extensive public works created at [[Shandong|Shawan]] just four years before as a result of the [[1448 Yellow River flood|1448 flood]] at [[Linqing]]. The silt flooded into the [[Grand Canal, China|Grand Canal]] in Shandong required major effort to repair. After the earthworks had been repaired, the [[Jingtai Emperor]] ordered the construction of two temples {{ndash}} one at [[Heiyangshan]] and the other at [[Shandong|Shawan]] {{ndash}} and committed himself to praying personally to the river gods for flood prevention.<ref name="eunuch">Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry.<!--sic--> ''SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies'': ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ka6jNJcX_ygC&pg=PA200 The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty]''. SUNY Press, 1996. {{ISBN|0791426874}}, 9780791426876. Accessed 16 Oct 2012.</ref>
By the [[Chinese lunar calendar|sixth lunar month]], the northern bank burst at Shawan again and the entire Grand Canal fleet was stranded by the sand thrown into its course.<ref name="eunuch"/>
==See also==
* [[1448 Yellow River flood]]
* [[1453 Yellow River flood]]
==References==
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[[Category:Disasters in the Ming dynasty]]
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[[Category:15th century in China|Yellow River Floods, 1452]]
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