The second lunar month of every year was when the northern provinces worked on agriculture and water circulation, and this year was of no exception. It was said that this habit continued in the Great Han Empire for more than a hundred years. Before, the famous Grand Chancellor Guo Chun wrote in the 'Empire Agriculture Ten Incidents' that 'The Provincial Governor and Transportation Offices should tell the soldiers and citizens that working on agriculture provides huge benefits and removes harm. So in the northern provinces, at the start of spring, people would mostly be working on plowing the land and building waterways as well as setting up dams. It was something that the bureaucracy should often do and be tested on…'
In the decades that Guo Chun was the Grand Chancellor, the local bureaucracy working on building waterways every second lunar month of the year was settled.
