Gaoyou / 高邮

Gaoyou appears in 65.龙王之怒：1931年的长江洪水 as one of the episode’s sharpest local disaster scenes. The source says floodwater broke through at night and collapsed the city wall, with a conservative estimate of more than 2,000 people dying in their sleep.

The episode also uses Gaoyou in the religious-politics layer: the local City God temple had reportedly been removed before the flood, which made “Dragon King anger” or divine retribution explanations more plausible to survivors.

Connections

• Yangtze River / 长江 and China - broader flood geography.
• Natural Hazard As Social Disaster - local catastrophe inside a larger regional disaster.
• Folk Religion Disaster Politics and Disaster Sensory History - explanation, memory, and survivor-experience frame.