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While not as famous or significant as the [[Yellow River]] or the [[Yangtze River|Yangtze]], the Huai River, which runs to the south of the former, and north of the latter, constitutes the traditional dividing line between northern and southern China.
During the [[Southern Song Dynasty]], the Huai constituted the border between the Song and the [[Jin Dynasty]] of the [[Jurchens]].
In the [[Ming Dynasty]], the Huai was home to dockworks where boats were built for transporting official shipments of grain on the [[Grand Canal]]. As with much in Ming administration, these dockworks were not coordinated or overseen in a unified way; instead, the thirty-yard wide dockyard was divided into eighty-two areas, and bore no coordinated support services to transport supplies and materials from storehouses, scattered across a two-and-a-half mile stretch, and the boats being built.
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==References==
*Ray Huang, ''1587: A Year of No Significance'', Yale University Press (1981), 161.
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