汉江是长江中游的大支流之一,流经湖北省荆州专区的五个县。这五个县所辖两岸大堤共长360多公里。这段堤防保障着汉江两岸数百万人民和1,000多万亩农田的安全,人民称它为“命堤”。过去汉江是一条多灾多难的河流,大水大灾,小水小灾,平均三年有两次溃口。1935年汉江大水,全流域受灾 The Han River is one of the major tributaries of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and flows through five counties in Jingzhou prefecture, Hubei Province. The five counties under the jurisdiction of the two sides of the embankment total length of more than 360 kilometers. This embankment protects the safety of millions of people and more than 10 million mu of farmland on both sides of the Han River, which the people call “life embankment.” In the past, the Han River was a calamitous river, flooding and water disaster, with an average of twice a year. 1935 Han River floods, the whole basin affected