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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Focusing on the key period from 4,000 to 5,000 years ago in tracing the origins of Chinese civilization, archaeologists have ...

In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, paddy farming thrived ... in revealing the mysteries of prehistoric Chinese civilization and their contributions in expanding the research ...

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 ...

Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China. China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the ...