The Historical Importance of Yangzi River

The Historical Importance of Yangzi River

The Historical Importance of Yangzi River

The Yangtze River takes an important part in Chinese history. During the 40 million years history of the life and 50,000 years history of human civilization, Yangtze River, a mother river of the Chinese people, brings up billions of people. Traces of human activity in the area can be found as far as 2 million years ago. The Yangzi River has great importance in the history. Yangzi River is China's first river with the length of 5800 km which flows through Qinghai, Tibet, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu provinces and Shanghai. Drainage area is ??more than 180 million square kilometers that accounts for more than one fifth of the territory and covers most parts of southern China.

In the origin and formation of Chinese civilization there are two completely different views. One view is that Chinese civilization originated in the Yellow River and then spread to other parts; this is the monistic view on the origin of Chinese civilization. The second view is the traditional point of view, in this view the origin of Chinese civilization regard as Starry Sky, according to this view Chinese Civilization was originated by the different locations and gradually forms a unified civilization. (Debaine, 1999)

An ancient Chinese history is found voluminously but not many authentic records about the ancient Yangzi River basin could be found. Now for the past twenty, focus of archaeological work in China has been concentrated in the Yellow River. Archaeologists discovered a number of Neolithic, Bronze culture and the large ruins, and archaeological work in the Yangzi River Basin. When the Yellow River civilization had become a hot topic in academic circles, the Yangzi River was basically in the search for the missing link of ...