Known as the mother river by all Chinese people, the 5,464-kilometer Yellow River is the second longest in China. The headwaters of this mighty river lie in Kunlun Mountains in northwestern Qinghai Province. It runs east through nine provinces and autonomous regions on its way to the Bohai Sea. It is not exaggerating to say that this river is a generous mother, because there are more than 30 branches and countless streams feeding it through its course. The upper reaches of the river start from Qinghai Province and end at Hekouzhen in Inner Mongolia. This magnificent river flows quietly, like a gentle mother, irrigating the farmlands and nurturing the people. Its middle reaches end at Taohuayu in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. Here the river splits the Loess Plateau in half, like a diligent mother, forming the longest gorge. The lower reaches end in a delta on the Bohai Sea, like a selfless mother, giving out what she has to the ocean.

全長5464公里，被所有的中國兒女稱作“母親河”，中國的第二長河，這就是黃河。她發(fā)源于青海西北部的昆侖山脈，途經(jīng)九個省和自治區(qū)，向東注入渤海。說她是一位胸懷寬廣的母親一點兒都不為過，因為有30多條支流和無數(shù)小溪匯入其中。從青海到內(nèi)蒙河口鎮(zhèn)的上游，她靜靜地流淌著，婉如一位溫柔的母親，默默地灌溉著農(nóng)田，養(yǎng)育著兒女。河南鄭州市桃花峪以上的中游，她像一位勤勞的母親，將黃土高原一分為二，耕耘出整個流域中最長的峽谷。在下游渤海灣三角洲，她又像一位無私的母親，傾其所有，注入大海。

It is agreed upon by almost all 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 river and its spirit that nurture the whole Chinese nation. The Yellow River is not just the name of a sandy yellow river. It bears special significance: the symbol of the Chinese nation, the spirit of the Chinese people and more importantly, the civilization itself.

如果有人問：“中華文明的搖籃在哪里？中國人民的精神家園在哪里？”所有的中國人都會脫口而出“黃河”。正是黃河的水，黃河的精神滋養(yǎng)了中華民族。 “黃河”二字，不僅僅指一條攜帶黃色泥沙的河流，而是中華民族的象征、中國人民的精神，是傳統(tǒng)千年的中華文明。

Here, the stories of three cultural heroes: Suiren-shi who taught the Chinese to make fire by drilling wood, Fuxi-shi who was the inventor of hunting and fishing and Shennong-shi who invented agriculture, were widely 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, Tang Taizong and Genghis khan pushed the Yellow River civilization to a wholly new level of refinement, grace and spirituality which drew the attention of the whole world.

With rich cultural relics, history and gorgeous natural sceneries, the Yellow River is stretching arms and expecting you to come back!

從黃河流域，走出了三位華夏文明的先祖：教人鉆燧取火的燧人氏、教人狩獵捕魚的伏羲氏和教人開荒種田的神農(nóng)氏。他們的故事廣為流傳，也正是他們開啟了黃河文明之門。后世的中國帝王，秦始皇、唐太宗、成吉思汗等，更讓中國成為世界的焦點，也讓黃河文明更加高貴、典雅、靈動。

豐富的文物、悠久的歷史、美麗的風(fēng)光，黃河母親正伸開雙臂等你回家！