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The Huang He valley played a major role in the early history of China as the foundations of Chinese
agriculture, society, government, and arts were laid by the people living in the Huang He valley approximately 4,000 years
ago.
Dragon Bones Hill: Southwest of China's capital, Beijing, is Dragon Bones Hill, one of the world's
most important sites for the study of ancient peoples.
Since 1918 scientists working on Dragon
Bones Hill have found relics of early humans, known as Peking man.
One very cool discovery
has been bits of charcoal, which may suggest that Peking man knew how to use fire.
The Huang He gets its muddy
yellow color from loess which is the dusty yellow soil from the Huang He valley that's carried by the wind and washed by the
summer rains into the river.
Life in the Chang Jiang valley differed from life in the Huang He valley as farmers in the Chang Jiang valley
cultivated rice and farmers in the Huang He grew millet.
Before rice and wheat became popular, millet was a major
food source in China. Millet is still popular in Asia and Africa. Millet grows in long spikes and has a mild flavor.
Millet is usually baked into flad bread or made into porridge. Many different flavors such as curry, orange,
ginger, garlic, and rosemary are added to give millet more flavor.
The Chinese attempted to control the dangerous flooding along the rivers of China by building levees.
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