Since ancient times,the relationship between water control and governing the country has been apparent and internal.The upright official as an governance ideal and model of ancient officials,it is a meaningful subject to combine water control and governing the country and learn from the past.It′s not enough to teach that the water control by the ancient upright official is a temporary event and the project may be indiscernible or lost.However,their experience and spiritual character have become an organic part of the Chinese nation′s water control spirit,which is worthy of dialectical inheritance and innovation.