WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Yellow River, Chinese (Pinyin) Huang He or (Wade-Giles romanization) Huang Ho, also spelled Hwang Ho, English Yellow River, principal river of northern China, east-central and eastern Asia. The Yellow River is often called the cradle of Chinese civilization.

Detailed explanation-2: -The river got its name Huanghe in Chinese because of its yellow, muddy water, which appears as it runs through the Loess Plateau in northwest China.

Detailed explanation-3: -Huang He means “Yellow River.” The river gets its color and its name from the extremely high volume of yellow-brown windblown silt, or loess, that enters the river in its middle reaches as it cuts through the Loess Plateau. The high silt load makes the lower reaches of the river prone to disastrous flooding.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Yellow River originates on the Tibet-Qinghai plateau and continues through the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong. Its path ends at the Bo Hai Gulf in the Yellow Sea. It is one of two main rivers in China, the other being the Yangtze River to the south.

Detailed explanation-5: -Chang Jiang (“Long River”) is the name used in China, although it also is called Da Jiang (“Great River”) or, simply, Jiang (“[The] River”). The Yangtze is the most important river of China.