50 words of history and culture of the Yellow River

The Yellow River has the highest sediment concentration in the world. If the motherland is compared to an upright rooster, then the Yellow River, the mother river of China, is the heart artery of the rooster. It witnessed the great development of People's Republic of China (PRC) (China).

The Yellow River is a big river in the north of China, with a total length of about 5,464 kilometers and a drainage area of about 752,443 square kilometers. One of the longest rivers in the world, the second longest river in China.

The Yellow River originates from the Yogu Zonglie Basin at the northern foot of Bayan Kara in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, flows through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces from west to east, and finally flows into the Bohai Sea.

The middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River 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 Yellow River is the most important birthplace of Chinese civilization, and China calls it "Mother River". Every year, it carries1600 million tons of sediment, of which1200 million tons flows into the sea, and the remaining 400 million tons stay in the lower reaches of the Yellow River for many years, forming an alluvial plain, which is conducive to planting.