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China Postcards: Pictures of the Yellow Earth By Xu Yong
The name of the Yellow River is also originated from the Yellow Earth. Accordingly, the Yellow Earth is considered by many the synonym of China. The poor transport means and the inaccessibility to information solidifies the evolution of productive methods and people's lifestyles. Farmers in the regions still cultivate lands with manual labor and the harvest relies heavily on the unpredictable weather. The grandest sacrificial ritual in the plateau is the rain-praying ceremony. Every year before the spring planting, the farmers throng atop hills to offer sacrifices for the Dragon King, the legendary Rain God, for favorable weather and a bumper harvest in the coming year. In China, the Yellow Earth usually refers to the loess plateau in the country's northern part. The plateau is acknowledged as the birthplace of Chinese nationality. The tomb of Emperor Huang, said to be the ancestor of the Chinese people, still locates on the northern Shaanxi province. Geographically, the loess plateau is situated in the central part of North China with an area of thousands of square kilometres and its altitude averaging between 800 and 1,100 metres above sea level. The place is one of China's driest regions partially due to over cultivation and soil erosion. For past centuries, people in the region developed a special cave dwelling, or "Yao Dong". They dig into the sunny slope of the hills till they finish an arch-roofed cave.
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All Photographs of the Loess Plateau Copyright Of Xu Yong, China. July, 1996
Chinese School In Cave of Yellow Earth Pictured On China Postcards
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All Photographs of the Loess Plateau Copyright Of Xu Yong, China. July, 1996
The Loess Plateau
'' The Loes Plateau is a plateau that covers an area of some 640,000 kmē in the upper and middle parts of China's Yellow River. Loess is the name for the silty soil that has been deposited by wind storms on the plateau over the ages. Loess is a highly erosion-prone soil that is susceptible to the forces of wind and water. The Loess Plateau and its dusty soil cover almost all of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and parts of others.
The Loess Plateau provides simple yet insulated shelter from the cold winter and hot summer in the region, as homes called yaodong were often carved into the loess soil; some families still live in this kind of shelter in modern times. During the Shaanxi Earthquake, nearly a million people were killed as a result of collapsing loess caves. The yaodongs that are best-known to the world are perhaps those in Yan'an where the Communist Party led by Mao Zedong headquartered in 1930s. When Edgar Snow, the author of Red Star Over China, visited Mao and his party, he lived in a yaodong.'' Src: Wikipedia
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