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Map of current configuration of Yellow River system, and the Luo (Lo) River. The Yellow River (Chinese: Huang He) flows from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bay of Bohai over a course of 5,464 kilometers (3,395 mi), making it the second-longest river in Asia and the sixth-longest in the world.
One of the "four major civilizations of the ancient world", it is often included in textbooks of East Asian history, but the idea of including only the Yellow River civilization as one of the four biggest ancient civilizations has become outdated as a result of the discovery of other early cultures in China, such as the Yangtze and Liao ...
The Yellow River [a], also known as Huanghe, 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).
Map of tribes and tribal unions in Ancient China. Yanhuang is shown as Hua Xia Tribal Union in the map. Yanhuang or Yan Huang (simplified Chinese: 炎 黄; traditional Chinese: 炎 黃; pinyin: Yán Huáng) was the name of a mythical ethnic group of ancient China who were said to have inhabited the Yellow River basin area.
A map of China depicting the Yellow River's new path, after it stabilized following Li Xing's public works during the 1494 flood. The 1344 Yellow River flood was a major natural disaster during the Yuan dynasty of Imperial China. The impact was devastating both for the peasants of the area as well as the leaders of the empire.
White River or White Water: one of the colored rivers flowing from Kunlun; Black River or Black Water: one of the colored rivers flowing from Kunlun; Yellow River: a colored river flowing from mount Kunlun. Often identified with the real Yellow River. Once drunk dry by Kua Fu and also said to have been ruled by the deity He Bo
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Jiahu (Chinese: 賈湖) was the site of a Neolithic settlement based in the central plain of ancient China, near the Yellow River.It is located between the floodplains of the Ni River to the north, and the Sha River to the south, 22 km (14 mi) north of modern Wuyang in Henan. [1]