Red River Delta Irrigation Development

Name: Red River Delta Irrigation Development
Start: 1020
End: 1029

Type Event Region Southeast Asia Time 1020–1029

In the 1020s, the Lý dynasty continued agricultural development of the Red River Delta under Đại Cồ Việt, managing royal estates, building dikes, and…

Timeline

1020–1029Tây Nguyên, Red River Delta · Red River DeltaThe Lý dynasty brought the still-undeveloped delta frontier under royal estate management, organizing labor to reclaim land in Tây Nguyên and Hồng Châu, expanding five-month rice cultivation and concentrating population in the delta interior.
1020–1029Bắc Ninh, Khoái Châu, Hồng Châu, and other areas · Red River DeltaLocal villages built dikes to reinforce the outer banks of river bends against floods, supporting ten-month rice cultivation; the Lý dynasty continued the 1013 regulations on taxes for fields and ponds, bringing hydraulic facilities and agricultural production into the state tax system.

Sources

李朝期(1010-1225)紅河デルタ開拓試論 — 八尾龙夫 (1980) https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/tak/18/2/18_KJ00000133587/_article/-char/ja
Timeline of the Lý dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_L%C3%BD_dynasty
大越史记全书 — 吴士连等 (1697)