Nearly 4,000 miles long, the Yangtze has watered civilizations for millennia—and laid waste to them too. The eighth-century poet Li Bai wrote that navigating the river was "even harder than ...

A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides about half of all the fish eaten in ...

There was not only the Yellow River civilization, but also the Yangtze River civilization in China. Sanxingdui represents the Yangtze River civilization. At the same time, a new field of study ...

At the Sanxingdui archaeological site in Sichuan, China, researchers have confirmed the use of silk in sacrificial rituals practiced by a civilization from the Bronze Age in the Yangtze River Basin.

More information: Hailing Zheng et al, Evidence of the use of silk by bronze age civilization for sacrificial purposes in the Yangtze River basin of China, Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038 ...

The four component parts of the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City include all the identified attributes necessary to convey its significance as an outstanding representation of a prehistoric early ...

Wetlands in the Middle Yangtze River Basin (MYRB) are facing significant ecological challenges due to climate change and human activities. A recent study investigated the spatiotemporal changes in ...

Author Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) observed that, “The Yangtze River is wide, but it is not a sea,” in his “Choko Yuuki” (Travels on the Yangtze) when he traveled up this river ...