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Because back in the 1900's During the Cold War, Asians didnt have enough money to pay their water bill due to war taxes, so instead of taking showers at home, they went for a bath in a river once known as the Port of China.
The chinese swam in it so much that it became yellow like them and later it became known as the Yellow River.
Amen to that.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 13y agoIn the 13th century, the famous Song Dynasty official, Wen Tianxiang penned a poem to the river entitled Yangzi Jiang. Later, Western missionaries heard the name and applied it to the entire river.
Chang Jiang is actually the name for the last 2,884 km (1,792 miles) of the Yangtze from the confluence with the Min River (Sichuan) at Yibin to its mouth at Shanghai.
Chang = Long
Jiang = River
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∙ 12y agoThe Yangzi River is not the Yellow River. The two are actually two different rivers within China. The Yangzi is the third largest river in the world and the longest in Asia. However, the Yellow River is called yellow because of the loess (yellowish sediment rock) that is revealed when the tide is low.
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∙ 12y agoYangtze is Chinese for yellow.
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∙ 10y agoIt's not, any more.
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