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图／视觉中国

著名历史地理学家邹逸麟在其著作《千古黄河》中写到，早先的黄河流域气候温暖湿润、森林茂盛、水草丰美，大约在旧石器时代，这里便已经有了远古人类活动的踪迹。黄河的古代文化遗存几乎遍及整个流域，实证了中国百万年人类史、万年文化史和五千多年文明史发展历程。

文明在黄河流域一次次积累、沉淀并前行。文字静默，文物无言，却都在为我们诉说着黄河与我们这个民族的根与魂。而黄河，从来不炫耀她的历史，她日复一日，向东奔流。

As noted by the historian and geographer Zou Yilin in his bookThe Yellow River over 2,000 Years,the Yellow River Basin featured a warm and humid climate, lush forests, and plentiful water and grasses in its early years, and traces of human activities dating back to the Paleolithic Age can be found here. The ancient cultural remains of the Yellow River can be found in almost the entire basin, which is a living testimony to China’s human history of millions of years, cultural history of tens of thousands of years, and civilization history of more than 5,000 years.

Civilization accumulates, deposits, and advances continuously in the Yellow River Basin. Much as they are mute and silent, the words and cultural relics are describing the roots and soul of the Yellow River and our nation to us. And the Yellow River flows to the east day after day while never flaunting its history.