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The Huai River and Hai River, as well as Tributaries of the Yangtze River, also pass through Zhongyuan. Since ancient times, Zhongyuan has been a strategically important site of China, regarded as 'The center and hub of the world'. [9] The alluvial deposits of the Yellow River formed the vast plains of Zhongyuan in the Palaeozoic period. [10]
A river valley civilization is an agricultural nation or civilization situated beside and drawing sustenance from a river. A river gives the inhabitants a reliable source of water for drinking and agriculture. Some other possible benefits for the inhabitants are fishing, fertile soil due to annual flooding, and ease of transportation.
A model of a settlement of the Middle Neolithic in the Yellow River Valley. Nanzhuangtou (various datings for beginning and end, between 10600 BC and 7500 BC) Peiligang culture (7000 BC – 5000 BC) [2] Cishan culture (6500 BC – 5000 BC) Dadiwan culture (6000 BC – 5000 BC) Beixin culture (6000 BC – 5000 BC) Yangshao culture (5000 BC ...
"China River Basins". WorldMap. Harvard University. Interactive map with China's river basins, showing river names in Chinese. Table of rivers in China with Chinese names and useful data (dead link 01:15, 4 March 2013 (UTC))
Chinese civilization first emerged in the Yellow River valley, which along with the Yangtze basin constitutes the geographic core of the Chinese cultural sphere. China maintains a rich diversity of ethnic and linguistic people groups.
Observing this, Houtu is said to have created and studied the River Map, after which she sent divine messenger birds to Yu to tell him to open up the river to the east instead. Yu's new dredging was a success, the flood waters drained into the eastern sea , and Yu's former dredging project toward the west was named the "River Wrongly Opened". [ 5 ]
Despite the Yellow River having a central role in the development of Chinese civilization on the North China Plain, flooding and constant rerouting of the river has also caused many great disaster to populations along the river, hence it is also known as a River of disaster (Chinese: 灾难河), with the disasters brought by the River said as ...
The city is on the Yi River, a tributary of the Luo River, which flows into the Yellow River. The city was 2.4 by 1.9 kilometres (1.5 by 1.2 mi); however, because of flood damage only 3 km 2 (1.2 sq mi) are left. [9]