China Built a Dam That Floods Itself on Purpose — Even Americans Can't Believe Why

For over two thousand years, one river in China flooded roughly once every eighteen months. Chinese historians don't call it by its real name — they call it "The Sorrow." THE KAIFENG TRAGEDY: The City Wiped Out by Its Own River — Then China Fixed It It buried an entire city under three meters of mud. It was turned into a weapon against China's own people, twice. It even broke the first modern dam ever built to stop it. Then China cut sixteen tunnels straight through a mountain — and started flooding the river on purpose, every single year, on schedule. Today it's one of the strangest tourist attractions on Earth: tens of thousands of people travel there every summer just to watch a government deliberately unleash a flood. This is the story of the Yellow River, the most sediment-choked river on the planet, and the dam that finally tamed it. Where are you watching from? Drop your city and local time below. #YellowRiver #China #Megaproject #ChinaEngineering #Xiaolangdi #Infrastructure #Documentary Music From #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/ Name:- To The Moon https://youtu.be/zYCnFTloSNo?si=X6QIV7rx76JWCpI1