entity Updated 2026-07-14 Tags: Wetland, Hubei, China, Environmental-History

Yunmengze / 云梦泽

Yunmengze is the ancient wetland invoked in 65.龙王之怒:1931年的长江洪水 to explain how Hubei / 湖北 and the middle [[YangtzeRiver|Yangtze]] region once absorbed and lived with water. The episode describes it as a huge temperate wetland with rich species and flood-buffering capacity.

The source uses Yunmengze to contrast Wetland Adaptation with later fixed settlement, rice agriculture, dikes, reclamation, and urban infrastructure. As wetland capacity shrank, floods became less a periodic condition to work around and more a threat to built systems that could not easily move.

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