Release Date:2024-05-15
The Enduring Vitality of Yellow River Culture
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Yellow River Jiuqu First Bay.Credit: Visual China




In order to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the premiere of "The Great Chorus of the Yellow River", the 2024 series of "Wuzhou Singing the Yellow River" was recently launched at Yellow River Kekou Falls. On April 13, 1939, "The Great Chorus of the Yellow River" premiered in Yan'an Shaanxi College Auditorium.


The Yellow River has been a national political, economic and cultural center for more than 5,000 years. It has bred Yellow River culture, Helo culture, Guanzhong culture, Qilu culture, etc. It is distributed in Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng and other ancient capitals such as Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Luoyang and Kaifeng.




It's a river that feeds national culture.


In the north-west of Mount Kunlun, it is said to be the only way for people to reach the heavens. Legend has it that the anger of co-working did not touch the mountains, so the sky fell northwest and southeast, and all the rivers flowed eastward.


The Yellow River swells, flowing to the junction of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan provinces. When the mountains were blocked, Dayu led the people to split the mountain into three canyons: "Man's Gate", "God's Gate" and "Ghost Gate".


The Yellow River, which is 5464 km long, winds its way to the north of China and writes a large “several” word on the vast land. For thousands of years, the Yellow River has nourished the breeding and growth of ancient civilizations and dyed the yellow undertones of the Chinese nation.


Shanxi Ruicheng Xihoudu site animal burning bones, pushed the history of human fire to 1.8 million years ago. Carbonized grain specimens from Gansu and Inner Mongolia archaeological finds confirm that the Yellow River Basin has opened agricultural civilization eight thousand years ago.


The Yellow River flows from the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau to the sea. It is clear that the ancients’ courage and handwriting in governing the Yellow River are read between the words of these texts. They understand that allowing the yellow stream to benefit God’s birth requires strong resource integration, which largely depends on the cooperation of a chess set.


Xi'an on the banks of Weishui, an ancient capital with a long history and famous in China and abroad, is looking for a high-quality development path that suits its own characteristics. From Chang'an, the ancient capital from all over the world, to the ever-changing northwest, the prosperity of ancient and modern times unfolded here.




It's a river that shows people-oriented.


In the lobby of the Yellow River Water Conservancy Committee office building, you can see the achievements, ideas and deeds of integrity of Huang's predecessors from ancient times.


The Yellow River Water Conservancy Committee introduced us that in recent years, the Yellow River Water Conservancy Committee solidly carried out research on the culture of integrity in the long history of river healing. In early 2024, the Yellow River Water Conservancy Committee further expanded the channel of cultural communication in the culture of integrity in the Jhe River, and seriously prepared for the exhibition "Character of Integrity" from Xian Qin to contemporary focus selected 21 representative figures from Xi'an Qin to contemporary focus, combing and distilling their praises and deeds of self-respect, self-interest, integrity and integrity.


"In the East Han period, Wang Jingji River was a major practice in the history of governing the Yellow River, which lasted for decades. Wang Jingji River had merited promotion to serving history. Since then, it has been rare records about the passing of the Yellow River for more than 800 years. Wang Jingji River is known as the river governor, and the court called him'incorruptible'."


During the years of Daoguang, Yumei, a water leader, bowed down to clean integrity and eventually died as governor due to overwork. His hearse was transported back to Shanxi, where people set up sacrifices along the road for thousands of miles.


In 1946, Wang Huayun, 38, was appointed director of the Yellow River Water Conservancy Committee in Jilu Yubian District and began his lifelong struggle to govern the Yellow River. During the days and nights of flood protection from 1946 to 1949, Wang Huayun organized operations and labored on the long embankment of the waves. Over the past 40 years, he has contributed significantly to Yellow River governance development and water talent cultivation.


According to Wang Huayun's son, his father worked as a "river officer" for 40 years. He has dealt with thousands of resources and equipment throughout his life, but he has always adhered to the principle of extreme caution and self-discipline for family and private property.


Yellow River Anlan, Guotai Min’an. From Dayu to the later Wang Jing, Guo Shoujing, Pan Jithai, Lin Zexu, Li Yih, Wang Huayun...




It's a river that keeps moving in lineage.


"I stood on the top of a mountain, watching the Yellow River roll and run to the southeast. The roaring, stirring, turbid currents, forming nine-quran loops, running from Mount Kunlun to the edge of the Yellow Sea, splitting the land between the north and south sides."


As the poet He Qifang wrote, “The gates of Yan’an are open all day, and there are young people who come from every direction, carrying their luggage, burning hope, entering this gate... Burning enthusiasm, walking in every direction.”


In 2019, the National Museum of China launched "Establishing Oriental - Collections Classic Fine Art Exhibition", a carefully selected collection of oil paintings, national paintings and sculptures, is still an object for visitors to enjoy for a long time. Among them is Dongdu Yellow River, created in 1978 by Zhong Han.


Looking at the rolling Yellow Plateau and facing the water of the Yellow River, Mao lamented: “You can despise everything, but you cannot. To defy the Yellow River is to defy our people.”


From the founding of New China to today, more than 70 years of vicissitudes are engraved with the struggle of the Communist Party of China.


In the new era, the party center with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core of the party has taken the pulse and system to a new level. Upstream is focused on improving water connotation capacity; downstream should focus on preserving and polluting water and soil; downstream should pay attention to protecting wetland ecosystems and improving biodiversity.


From 1972 to 1998, the Yellow River had a dry run for 21 years. According to data, between 1972 and 1996, the industrial and agricultural economic losses caused by disconnection and insufficient water supply accumulated more than 20 billion yuan.


From the past years to the current river flow, from ecological degradation to birdsong fish leap, from self-care to Huize far...


The river casing irrigation district in Bayan Naoer City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has used high-tech irrigation water conservation technology. Agricultural water consumption has dropped to one-fifth of the traditional irrigation water, so that people in plateau and mountain areas can get out of the situation of eating by heaven.


Today, China’s two mother rivers—the Yangtze and the Yellow River—have national strategies and clear road maps, whether economic, ecological or cultural.