The Classical WorldTechnology Dujiangyan irrigation system 256 BCEMajor Li Bing builds a system on the Min River in Sichuan that divides the flow without a dam. It still irrigates the Chengdu Plain today. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → First fired clay figures → First pottery → Copper smelting → Bronze Age begins → Shang dynasty → Zhou dynasty and the Mandate of Heaven → Spring and Autumn period → Warring States period → Dujiangyan irrigation system Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentwhc.unesco.orgMount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System (UNESCO World Heritage Centre) ↗Editor's pickBookJoseph NeedhamScience and Civilisation in China, Vol. 4 Part 3: Civil Engineering and Nautics ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeDujiangyan irrigation system explained ↗Editor's pick