entity Updated 2026-07-24 Tags: Public-Works, Hangzhou, Water-Control, Song-Dynasty, China

苏堤 / Su Causeway

The Su Causeway appears in 105.苏东坡:一腔豪迈之气,一肚皮不合时宜 as the durable public-works trace of [[SuShi|苏轼]]’s later [[Hangzhou|杭州]] service. The episode says he dredged West Lake and used the silt to build the causeway, linking landscape memory to practical water management.

The source uses Su Causeway to resist a purely lifestyle image of Su Dongpo. The same figure associated with poems, food, and scenery also organizes infrastructure, disaster preparation, and public health, making the causeway a concrete node for Local Governance As Care / 地方治理作为照护 and Scholar-Official Public Duty / 士大夫公共责任.

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