《历史教学》1984年第2期刊登了谢照明同志的《通惠河的开凿》一文,读后颇受教益,但也有一些不同的看法。谢文认为,通惠河系元朝杰出科学家郭守敬于1291年建议开凿的;传统的说法也认为大都至通州的通惠河系守敬所开,至1293年(至元三十年)秋运河竣工。其实,通惠河并非郭守敬首开。清代学者赵翼在其所撰《廿二史札记》一书卷28中就提出了 History Teaching, No. 2, 1984, published Xie Wenming’s article entitled “Excavating the Tonghui River”. After reading the book, he learned a lot but learned differently. Xie Wen believes that the Tonghui River Yuan Dynasty outstanding scientist Guo Shou-jing proposed in 1291 to excavate; the traditional argument also believes that most of the Tongzhou Tonghe River Shou-Jing opened until 1293 (to thirty years) the completion of the Autumn Canal . In fact, Tonghe River is not the first to open Guo Shoujing. In the Qing dynasty, Zhao Yi, a scholar of the Qing dynasty, put forward a volume 28 of his “Twenty-two Historical Notes”