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Lanzhou Tour of
Yellow River
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Known as the mother river by all the Chinese people, the
5,464-kilometer (about 3,395 miles) Yellow River is the second
longest river in China after the Yangtze River . The headwaters of
this mighty river lie in Kunlun Mountains in northwestern Qinghai
Province. It runs through nine provinces and autonomous regions on
its way to the Bohai Sea. It is not exaggerating to say that Yellow
River is a melting port, because there are more than 30 branches and
countless streams feeding it through its course. The vigorous upper
reaches of the Yellow River starts in Qinghai Province to Hekouzhen
in Inner Mongolia. This magnificent river flows quietly, like a shy
girl in this section, irrigating the farmlands and nurturing the
people. Its middle reaches ends at Taohuayu in Zhengzhou City, Henan
Province. Here the Yellow River splits the Loess Plateau in half,
forming the longest continuous gorge in the whole drainage area of
the river. The Yellow River's lower reaches ends in a delta on the
Bohai Sea.
It is agreed upon by almost all the Chinese people that the Yellow
River is the cradle of Chinese civilization, the spiritual home of
the Chinese people. It is the waters of the Yellow River and its
spirit that nurture the whole Chinese nation. For thousands of
years, the Yellow River has been admiring by literary giants,
artists, as well as by the common people. The Yellow River is not
just several letters, nor is it just the name of a
yellow-ochre-colored river. It bears special significance: the
symbol of the Chinese nation, the spirit of the Chinese people and
more importantly, civilization itself.
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). Here, the story of three
cultural heroes: Suiren-shi who taught the Chinese to make fire by
drilling wood, Fu Hsi who was the inventor of hunting, trapping and
fishing and Shennong-shi who invented agriculture, was spread. It
was these three legendary individuals that began the development of
civilization in the Yellow River basin. After that, many ancient
Chinese emperors, like Emperor Qin Shi Huang, Genghis khan
(1162-1227, grandfather of Kublai Khan who is the first emperor of
the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)) pushed the Yellow River civilization
to a wholly new level of refinement, grace and spirituality which
drew the attention of the whole world.
Rich cultural relics, history and gorgeous natural sceneries make
the Yellow River a fine place to visit, and along the Yellow River,
there are dozens of worthwhile attractions.
Tour Lanzhou
with Great Wall Adventure Club, the best
Lanzhou
tour agent to help
you with your hotel booking and transfers.
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