Description

The title of this work, He gong shu (Book on regulating rivers), is taken from the central column of the page. The inscription at the end of the volume says that the work was printed in the winter of the Yisi year (the 33rd year, 1605) of the Wanli reign in Ningling Xian. The author of the book is not known definitively, but judging by the contents, the work was undoubtedly by the hand of a very respectable author, possibly Lȕ Kun, though no records could be found in the ...