明代农民水利专家白英,是山东省汶上县白家店村人(公元1363～1419年)。他以农耕为生,聪明好学,精通地理。 明代洪武年间,家乡经常遭受水灾,又遇黄河决口泛滥,会通河严重淤塞,南北运河水路交通运输被迫中断。农民四处逃荒要饭,处于水深火热之中。白英看到这种惨状,立志要兴修水利,为民除害、为民造福。为了治水,白英毅然辞去聘教之职(教蒙学,即白氏族谱),舍弃田园天伦之乐,南跑北奔,爬山涉水,历尽千辛万苦,用了10多年的时间,南到江苏沛县,北到临清,东到莱芜山区等10多个州县考察、测量,摸清了这一带的地 Bai Ying, a farmer water conservancy expert in the Ming Dynasty, is a white village shopkeeper in Wenshang County, Shandong Province (AD 1363 ~ 1419). He takes farming for a living, is smart and studious, and proficient in geography. Hongwu years of the Ming Dynasty, his hometown often suffer floods, flooding the Yellow River burst again, will be a serious blockage through the river, north-south canal waterway transport was forced to interrupt. Farmers fled to shortage of food everywhere, in dire straits. Baiying see this horrendous, determined to build water conservancy, pest for the people, for the benefit of the people. In order to control the water, Bai Ying resolutely resigned from the post of employment (teach Mongolian, that is, the genealogy of Bai), give up the music of rural life, south run north, climb wading, experienced untold hardships, with 10 years of time, south to Jiangsu Peixian, Linqing to the north, east Laiwu Mountain more than 10 counties to inspect, measure, find out the land in this area