107 years ago today, on February 17, 1918 (January 7, 1918 lunar calendar), the Yellow River in Putai, Shandong Province burst due to ice blocking the river channel. On February 17, 1918, the Yellow River in Putai, Shandong Province burst due to ice blocking the river channel. In history, the Yellow River has a saying of "two breaches in three years and one diversion in a hundred years". From the fifth year of King Zhou Ding (602 BC) to the 2540 years of Huayuankou in 1938, there were 543 recorded years of breaching and flooding, with more than 1,590 breaches and 26 important diversions. The lower channel of the Yellow River, which is recorded in writing, generally passes through Hebei, from the Jinziya River to the sea near Tianjin, which is called the "Old Road of the Yu River". From the first major diversion of the Yellow River in 602 BC to 1855 AD, the current river channel was changed. During this period, 1128 years ago, the river went north of the current river channel and entered the sea from Tianjin, Lijin and other places; later, it went south of the current river channel and took Huaihe into the sea. The disaster affected about 250,000 square kilometers of the lower reaches of the Haihe, Huaihe and Yangtze River. Each burst flood caused heavy losses. In 1933, there were 54 breaches in the lower reaches of the river, affecting an area of more than 11,000 square kilometers, and the affected population reached more than 3.6 million people. In 1938, the Kuomintang government opened the levee of the Yellow River at Huayuankou, north of Zhengzhou, drowning 890,000 people, resulting in the famous Yellow Flooding Area.