Hwang Ho River

Hwang Ho River

& Wei Ho River

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Continued

• Serious ecological conditions (such as; exotic aquatic species wreaking havoc and destroying the local environment and the ecological index decreasing)
• Huge amounts of loess sediment in the water turned it “yellow”
• The Yellow River flows in braided streams, a network of smaller channels that weave in and out of each other (such as it's connection to the Wei River)
• Wide deforestation to try and support the population

Product/Service Growth

Continued

• Yellow River basin has been an important factor in agricultural development in China
• Agricultural societies began appearing nearly 7,000 years ago
• Each year 1.5 billion tons of soil flows into the Yellow River
• The Yellow River has dried up more than 30 times since 1972

Urbanization

Continued

• Power stations, thermal power plants, and heavy-chemical enterprises are located on both banks of the Yellow River (their location on its upper delta reaches above the city and their pollution has seriously degraded Lanzhou’s air and water quality) which at one point, turned the water black

• Jobs available; Construction work (heavy equipment mines sand from river bottom) and agricultural work (farming)
• The Yellow River produces trades in both rice and silver

• Civilization develops in relative isolation
• Lanzhou’s (a major chemical industry city) geography is developing east and west along the Yellow River

Land Development

The Wei River

The Wei River originates in the plateau of Gansu Province to the west of Shaanxi, flows southeast and then turns east to join the Yellow River where that river makes its major bend from south to east toward the North China Plain.

• Residences most rebuild their house or live away from in river because of the annual flooding
• Topography rises to plateaus of 1,200–1,500 m
• Serious water pollution (population in huge need of good water)

The Yellow River

From the earliest times in the history of humankind, water has played an essential role in the development of civilization. The Yellow River (Hwang Ho), in particular, was essential to the development of Chinese civilization

The Hwang Ho & Wei Rivers

From about 1000 BCE to CE 1000, the capital of China alternated between Chang'an in the Wei Valley and Luoyang in Henan Province to the east.

Around 7000 BC, people settled in the lands surrounding the Yellow River

After that, many ancient Chinese emperors pushed the Yellow River civilization to a wholly new level of refinement From the Xia (21st-16th century BC) and Shang (16th-11th century BC) Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty (618-907)

Neolithic (7,000 BC-3,700 BC), Bronze (3,700 BC-2,700 BC) and Iron Age Sites (770 BC), and so on can be found in the Yellow River's drainage basin, which had been the center of ancient Chinese culture since the Azilian (Middle Stone Age).

The Zhou people migrated down the Jing River and founded the state of Zhou in the Wei River valley. They overthrew the Shang dynasty (1750–1040 BCE) and established the Zhou dynasty (1100–256 BCE), which lasted the longest of any Chinese dynasty.

The Three Wise men

Chinese civilization originated in the Wei and Yellow River valleys with the Neolithic culture known as Yangshao. Since ancient times the Wei Valley has also been the main route between China and Central Asia.

three legendary individuals that began the development of civilization in the Yellow River basin:

-Suiren-shi who taught the Chinese to make fire by drilling wood

-Fu Hsi who was the inventor of hunting, trapping and fishing

-Shennong-shi who invented agriculture

By 2000 BC, bronze working, silk weaving, wheel-based pottery, and paper-based writing were in use.

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