江南河道总督麟庆考论

About the Viceroy of Watercourse in Jiangnan Lin Qing

麟庆是清代任职时间较长的江南河道总督。时至道光,黄河夺淮已有四五百年的历史,淮河下游河道和洪泽湖的淤积日益严重,使得黄、淮、运相交的南河一带形成在当时的经济和技术条件下难以克服的治理死结。尽管麟庆竭力在实践经验和前人理论之间寻求改良的治河措施,也幸得南河近十年总体安澜之效,却无法从根本上改变运河治理日益艰涩之衰势。同其前任及后任河督一样,麟庆最终仍因河患突发而被罢官。从家世与生平、任职开归陈许道、十年南河总督、治河著述、赋闲半亩园等角度,对麟庆生平行迹特别是治河经历作详细考论。

Lin Qing was the viceroy of Jiangnan watercourse who stayed in his post for a comparatively long time in Qing Dynasty.By the year of Daoguang,the Yellow River had changed its way and had the water flowed through Huai River for four or five hundred years,which caused a very severe fill-up in the backward position of Huai River and Hongze Lake and made it difficult to father the intersectant section of Yellow River,Huai River and Canal under the limited economic and technical conditions of the day.Although Lin Qing tried his best to work out the good measures between practical experience and preceding theories,he could not make a radical change about the increasingly declining situation of fathering the canal.Like his predecessor and successor,he couldn＇t avoid being finally dismissed from office because of river trouble.This paper made a detailed study of Lin Qing＇s life and his experience of fathering rivers from the aspects of his family background,his post holding,ten years of viceroy of south river,fathering rivers,writing books and dallying on a small unit of farming land.