Show chinas cainas yellow river Is life giver like the nile although a destroyer in i chief and justly entitled chinas cainas Ch inas sorrow like egypto nile the yellow river is also a life giver washing rich top soil down from the mountains upon the north china plain it transforms floods into farm fertility for the next generation chinas cainas sorrow was also ancient chinas cainas cradle of culture says the national geographic society the yellow rivers rich soil deposits influenced the count rys first civilized men to become farmers instead of wandering shepherds and farmers the hwang ho valley inhabitants have remained for 40 centuries A symbolizing the hwang ho is described in a myth as having presented the chinese people with their alphabet vital in the count rys culture and cultivation the hwang ho is practically useless in transportation the yangtze is navigable for or steamships more than a thousand miles from its mouth the hwang for about 25 miles it is either too shallow or too turbulent elsewhere in the middle third of its course local shipping moves in flat bottomed scows and in primitive rafts buoyed with inflated sheep skins and ox hides much as in the nations early history |