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Ancient water wheel in Jiangxi

www.chinanews.cn 2005-08-24 16:17:28

Over 1000 households in the few villages of Longling Town in Jiangxi's
Nankang City depend on a water wheel left by their forefathers for
irrigation of farmlands all year round. This water wheel is 12 meters in
diameter and 0.6 meters thick and consists of 104 bamboos and 54 bamboo
tubes.

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