{"id":64698,"date":"2024-06-05T14:18:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T05:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/05\/china-yuntai-falls-waterfall-pipe-used-henan-province"},"modified":"2024-06-05T14:18:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T05:18:59","slug":"pride-before-a-fall-water-pipe-helps-cherished-waterfall-in-china-stay-flowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64698","title":{"rendered":"Pride before a fall: water pipe helps cherished waterfall in China stay flowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A viral video from a tourist showed that Yuntai falls in Henan province relies on some artificial help to keep the torrent of water flowing<\/p>\n<p>It is a cherished natural beauty spot in China: the Yuntai waterfall sees plumes of water cascade hundreds of metres down a gorge, soaking the many tourists it receives with mist as they stare up at its heights to take photos.<\/p>\n<p>However, officials have admitted the 314-metre falls in Henan province has received a \u201csmall enhancement\u201d and relies partly on water pumped from a pipe during the dry season.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/05\/china-yuntai-falls-waterfall-pipe-used-henan-province\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A viral video from a tourist showed that Yuntai falls in Henan province relies on some artificial help to keep the torrent of water flowingIt is a cherished natural beauty spot in China: the Yuntai waterfall sees plumes of water cascade hundreds of met&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64699,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64698\/revisions\/64699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}