六月中旬,英雄的汕头专区人民,在党的领导下,战胜了有史以来的一次特大洪水。韩江下游水位虽曾出现历史上最高水位一六点八八米,但南堤、北堤等主要堤围却安然无恙,潮汕平原没有受到洪水的侵害。根据历史记载,解放前韩江下游的水位稍为上涨即造成灾害。历史上曾经出现过1842、1864、1871、1911年等最大洪水。其中,尤以1911年农历七月的一次为最严重。当时潮安水位为一六点八七米,遭受严重水灾的地区,就有潮安、汕头、饶平、揭阳、大埔等五个县、市。这些地区,在四十九年以后的今天,还可以找到当时水灾的某些痕迹。以后,到解放前的1949年的三十八年中,韩江下游潮安的水位,只有二次超过十五米,但是1922年,农历六月初十的一次洪水,“平地水冲深丈余,堤围全溃决,死人三万余,受浸百余万亩,受灾人口百余万人。”1949年,较高的水位,也不过只有十五点三米,但是澄海县全县所有的堤围都溃决 In mid-June, the heroic Shantou area people, under the leadership of the party, defeated an unprecedented flood. Although the highest water level in history at the lower reaches of Hanjiang River was found to be 1.688 meters, major embankments such as Nandi and North Bund remained intact, while the Chaoshan Plain was not affected by floods. According to historical records, the water level in the lower reaches of the Hanjiang River before the liberation was slightly increased to cause disasters. In history there have been the biggest floods of 1842, 1864, 1871, 1911 and so on. Among them, especially in the Lunar New Year in July 1911 was the worst. At that time, the water level at Chao An was 6.87m and the areas hit by severe floods were five counties and cities such as Chaoan, Shantou, Raoping, Jieyang and Tai Po. In these areas, some forty-nine years later, some traces of the current floods can still be found. Later, until the liberation of 1949, thirty-eight years, the water level of Chaoan on the lower reaches of the Hanjiang River was only twice more than 15 meters, but in 1922, a flood in the tenth day of the sixth lunar month, I embankment all the ruins, the dead more than 30,000, soaked more than 100 acres, the affected population of more than 100 million people. "1949, the higher the water level, but only 15.3 meters, but Chenghai County, all The embankment are broken