苏州市地处长江下游、太湖之滨,境内湖荡星罗棋布,河港纵横交错,已初步形成的防洪、挡潮、排涝、抗旱、防渍五套水利工程体系,有效地抗御了水旱灾害,为农业生产丰收和国民经济发展创造了条件。这些,与“先天下之忧而忧,后天下之乐而乐”的倡导者——范仲淹,和他所遗留的治水工程和治水理论是分不开的。范仲淹是北宋著名的政治家和文学家,今江苏省苏州市吴县人,他的一生是伴着治水而过的。他的家乡滨临太湖,北枕长江,地势低洼,洪涝、干旱、海潮频频发生,民众苦不堪言。他家境贫寒,从小就立下治水意愿,发愤苦读,决心为民除害造福。公元1034年,范仲淹出任苏州知府。刚上任,苏 Suzhou is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the coast of Taihu Lake. There are lakes and lakes dotted around the territory of the city, criss-crossing rivers and crises, and five water conservancy projects such as flood control, tidal flats, drainage, drought and stain prevention have been formed. Agricultural bumper harvests and national economic development have created the conditions. These, together with Fan Zhongyan, an advocate of “worry and worry before the world, and enjoy the world,” are inseparable from the water management and water management theories that he left behind. Fan Zhongyan is a famous Northern Song Dynasty statesman and writer, now Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Wuxian, his life is accompanied by flood control. His hometown came to Taihu Lake, the North pillow of the Yangtze River, low lying, floods, droughts, tides occur frequently, the people miserable. His poor family, from an early age to make the will of water, painstakingly read, determined to cut off the benefit of the people for the benefit. In 1034 AD, Fan Zhongyan served as prefect of Suzhou. Just assumed office, Su