Yellow River

The Yellow River or Huang He / Hwang Ho (simplified Chinese: 黄河, Traditional Chinese: 黄河; pinyin: Huang Han, Mongolian: Hatan Gol, the queen of the river) is the second longest river in China (after Yangtze River) and sixth longest in the world the estimated duration of 5464 km (3395 miles). Bayan was originally from the mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, it passes through nine provinces in China, and empties into the Bohai Sea. The Yellow River basin has an east-west extent of 1900 km (1180 miles) and a north-south extension of 1100 km (684 mi). The total area of ​​the basin is 742,443 km² (290,520 km ²).
The Yellow River is called the "cradle of Chinese civilization," as its basin is the cradle of ancient civilizations in China and was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. But the frequency of devastating floods, when the silt coming down from the top bed of the river reached high in the lower reaches higher and higher, sometimes above the level of surrounding fields, has also earned the unenviable name "grief China "and" scourge of the Sons of Han. "
Early Chinese literature refers to the Yellow River simply as He (河), the word has come to mean simply "river" in modern language (in ancient times, though, 川 水, and is used in the sense "river"). The first appearance of the name "Yellow River" (黄河) is in the Book of Han (simplified Chinese: 汉书, Traditional Chinese: 汉书, pinyin: Han Shu), written during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC JC -9). The name "Yellow River" describes the intense yellow of the murky water in the lower river. The yellow color comes from loess suspended in water.
Sometimes, the Yellow River is poetically called "mud flow" (simplified Chinese: 浊流, Traditional Chinese: 浊流, pinyin: Liu Zhuo). The Chinese proverb "when the Yellow River flows clear" is used to refer to an event that will never happen and is similar to the expression "When pigs fly."

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