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v. t. e. Yellow River civilization, Huanghe civilization or Huanghe Valley civilization (Chinese: 黃河文明), Hwan‐huou civilization is an ancient Chinese civilization that prospered in the middle and lower basin of the Yellow River. [1] Agriculture was started in the flood plain of the Yellow River, and before long, through flood control ...
The Yellow River[ a ] is the second-longest river in China and the sixth-longest river system on Earth, with an estimated length of 5,464 km (3,395 mi) and a watershed of 795,000 km 2 (307,000 sq mi). Beginning in the Bayan Har Mountains, the river flows generally eastwards before entering the 1,500 km (930 mi) long Ordos Loop, which runs ...
Although the name of the province means "south of the river", [9] approximately a quarter of the province lies north of the Yellow River, also known as the Huang He. With an area of 167,000 km 2 (64,479 sq mi), Henan covers a large part of the fertile and densely populated North China Plain.
1938 Yellow River flood. The 1938 Yellow River flood (simplified Chinese: 花园口决堤事件; traditional Chinese: 花園口決堤事件; pinyin: Huāyuánkǒu Juédī Shìjiàn; lit. 'Huayuankou Dam Burst Incident') was a man-made flood from June 1938 to January 1947 created by the intentional destruction of levees on the Yellow River in ...
Basin size. 2,400 km 2 (930 sq mi) The Huang River (Chinese: 潢河; pinyin: Huáng Hé) is a tributary of the Huai River in Henan Province, Central China. The Huang rises in southeastern Xin County and flows northward across the Guangshan County and Huangchuan County to reach its mouth at the northeastern Xuezi Town of the Huangchuan County ...
Divination regarding 口, which was the same as Shàngdì and Shang Jia. Conversely, the Shang believed that Shàngdì, as Dì's superior component, possessed a negative counterpart associated with 'earth'. Many character versions depict the earthly counterpart of Shàngdì 上帝, named Xiàdì 下帝, composed of non-ancestral deities such as cloud spirits, rain spirits and the Earth Power ...
Zhengzhou[ b ] is the capital of Henan, China. Located in northern Henan, it is one of the nine national central cities in China, [ 6 ] and serves as the political, economic, technological, and educational center of the province. [ 7 ] The Zhengzhou metropolitan area (including Zhengzhou and Kaifeng) is the core area of the Central Plains ...
The loess near the Liu-p’an Mts is the thickest which is around 200 to 300 metres (660 to 980 ft) while the loess near the Yellow River is around 100 metres (330 ft) thick. [4] This is related to the sorting by wind. When the monsoon wind and dust storm are blown from the northwest, it carries the loess of different sizes.