Who has a longer history, the Yangtze River or the Yellow River?

The Yellow River has a longer history than the Yangtze River.

The Yellow River originates from bayan har branch of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the north, Bayan Kara branch in the south and Xinghai in the west. The middle and upper reaches are dominated by mountains, while the middle and lower reaches are dominated by plains and hills. Because the middle section of the river flows through the Loess Plateau in China and carries a lot of sediment, it is also called the river with the largest sediment concentration in the world. However, in the history of China, the diversion of the lower Yellow River has brought great influence to human civilization.

The formation of the Yangtze River originated from the Yanshan Movement of Jurassic10.40 billion years ago, and the Tanggula Mountain was formed in the Yangtze River. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau rises slowly, forming many mountains, deep valleys, depressions and rift valleys.

It is mentioned in many chapters of The Book of Songs. At that time, the Yellow River was relatively clear. There are many forest vegetation in the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the first generation in Shanxi and Shaanxi. In Xi 'an, there is a saying that "eight rivers around the capital", which shows that the loess plateau was still lush. It is only because of climate change, war, large-scale construction and deforestation in the past thousand years that the environment has deteriorated. A large amount of sediment in the Loess Plateau was lost and injected into the Yellow River, which became the turbid yellow soup today, so people on both sides of the strait gradually called it "Yellow River". The area above Duoshi Gorge in maduo county, Qinghai Province is Heyuan District, with an area of 22,800 square kilometers. It is a part of Qinghai Plateau, belonging to the wide valley belt of lake basin, with an altitude of more than 4,200 meters. The mountains around the basin are majestic, with Yaradze Mountain in the west, Qingshan Mountain in Anima (also known as Jishi Mountain) in the east, Burkhanbuda Mountain in the north, Bayan Kara and the Yangtze River Basin in the south.