清朝作家李汝珍所著《镜花缘》百回小说中阐述了治理河道的部分理论。其中第三十六回“佳人喜做东床婿,壮士愁为举桉妻”中,唐敖为治理女儿国经常泛滥的河道,首先实地察看了河势,认为:两边堤岸,高如山陵,而河身既高且浅,形象如盘,受水无多,以至为患。这总是水大之时,惟恐冲决漫溢,且顾目前之急,不是筑堤,就是培岸。及至水小,并不预以设法挑挖疏通;到了 Qing Dynasty writer Li Ruzhen’s “Mirror Flower Edge” hundred-novels elaborated in the management of the river part of the theory. Among them, the thirty-sixth back, “Lady likes to be the east-son-in-law, warrior worry for the sake of his wife”, Tang Ao is often the daughter of the proliferation of channels, first observed the river on the ground that: both embankments, , While the river body is both high and light, the image of the plate, no water, or even cause trouble. This is always when the water is large. I am afraid that the raid will run rampantly and take precautions now, either by embankment or by training. When the water is small, it is not preconceived to dig and dig