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'The Longest River in the World') is a 2022 Chinese historical television series written and directed by Zhang Ting, and starring Luo Jin, Yin Fang and Huang Zhizhong. [1] [2] [3] The series tells the story of Chen Huang and Jin Fu governing the Yellow River during the Kangxi period of Qing dynasty (1644–1912).
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 ...
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the idea of including only the Yellow River civilization as one of the four biggest ancient civilizations has become outdated as a result of the discovery of other early cultures in China, such as the Yangtze and Liao ...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 Delta National Nature Reserve (YRDNNR) is a protected area in the city of Dongying, China, which covers wetland habitats on the shore of the Bohai Sea. These wetlands are formed through the deposition of silt by the Yellow River , forming a large and growing delta .
Japanese troops guarding Chinese refugees displaced by war and the Yellow River Flood, China Jun-Jul 1938. The immediate drowning deaths were estimated to range from 30,000 (Kuo Tai-chun, 2015) [11] [12] to 89,000 (China Academy of Sciences, 1995). [13] Estimates of total deaths resulting from floods, famine and plague varied wildly.
When the Yellow River approaches the Hukou Mountain, blocked by mountains on both sides, its width is abruptly narrowed down to 20–30 m (66–98 ft). The water's velocity increases, and then plunges over a narrow opening on a cliff, forming a waterfall 15 m (49 ft) high and 20 m (66 ft) wide, as if water were pouring down from a huge teapot.
The Sanmenxia Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the middle-reaches of the Yellow River near Sanmenxia Gorge on the border between Shanxi province and Henan Province, China. The dam is multi-purpose and was constructed for flood and ice control along with irrigation, hydroelectric power generation and navigation. Construction began in 1957 and ...
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.