Where is the source of the Yellow River

The northern source of the Yellow River originates from the southern foot of Chahasila Mountain, a branch of the Ba Yan Ka La Mountains in Qinghai Province on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, and the southern source originates from the northern foot of Kari Qu in the northern foot of Gazi Goya Mountain, a branch of the Ba Yan Ka La Mountains, and the western source originates from the western part of the Xingxu Haixi's Joguzong Liequ.

The Yellow River crosses the Tibetan Plateau, Loess Plateau, Inner Mongolia Plateau and North China Plain in turn, meanders eastward, and injects into the Bohai Sea (Laizhou Bay) in Kenli County, Dongying City, Shandong Province.

The main tributaries of the Yellow River are the White River, the Black River, the Huangshui River, the Zuili River, the Qingshui River, the Dahai River, the Cave Wild River, the Wuding River, the Fen River, the Wei River, the Luo River, the Qin River, and the Dawen River. Among them, the Wei River is the largest tributary of the Yellow River.

The main lakes on the Yellow River are Zaling Lake, Eling Lake, Wuliangsu Sea and Dongping Lake.

The Yellow River basin is a vast area with many mountain ranges, the height difference between the east and the west, and the geomorphological differences between the regions are also very large. And because the basin is in the mid-latitude zone, affected by the atmospheric circulation and monsoon circulation is more complex, therefore, the basin of different areas of the climate difference is significant, the climate elements of the annual and seasonal changes.

Expanded Information

The geographic environment of the Yellow River Basin during the period of 3000-2000 B.C.E. (the period of Yangshao culture in the Yellow River Basin to the Yinxu in Anyang) was suitable for the growth of vegetation and the development of human production and living activities, and the climate, which was about 2℃ higher, created excellent conditions for the development of crops and vegetation. During this period, a large number of lakes existed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, such as Leixiaze and Dainoze. Mengzi Tengwengong wrote that the Yellow River basin was "lush with grass and trees, and the beasts and fowls multiplied", and the Guanzhong Plain still had "beautiful mountains, forests and valleys, and a lot of geniuses" during the Warring States period in China.

After the Warring States period, with the widespread use of iron agricultural tools and the relocation of the economic center of the Qin state to Guanzhong, the vegetation of the Yellow River basin and the Loess Plateau began to be destroyed. Because the Yellow River basin has been the center of Chinese civilization for a long time, and because of the ancient Chinese phenomenon of emphasizing agriculture over animal husbandry, the destruction of the vegetation in the Yellow River basin has become a long-term, massive phenomenon.

With the onset of global cooling in the 1530s, along with the southward movement of China's economic center, the ecological destruction of the Yellow River Basin began to diminish, but it was difficult to restore the forest cover to the condition of the 3rd century BC. And with the destruction of vegetation, the Loess Plateau began to be eroded by the Yellow River and a large amount of soil was swept away, creating a surface pattern of thousands of ravines.

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