Central Plain

English Alternative forms en Central Plains Etymology en central plain: en zh - 中原 (cmn 中原,Zhōngyuán; yue 中原). Proper noun central plain en Places in China en The <<region>> on the lower reaches of the <<river/Yellow River>> in <<c/China>> which formed the cradle of Chinese civilization. en 1952 w:René Grousset Chinese Earth The Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire https://archive.org/details/risesplendourofc0000grou/ w:University of California Press 1970 0-520-00525-2 924881466 9 https://archive.org/details/risesplendourofc0000grou/page/9/ ASIATIC civilization is the product of “Mesopotamias”, of great alluvial plains where the natural fertility of the soil stimulated man’s agricultural vocation. Such was the case of Babylon in western Asia; such is the case of the “Central Plain” of China in eastern Asia.[...]In the same way that Egypt, according to Herodotus, is a “gift of the Nile”, the Central Plain is a gift of the Yellow River and its tributaries. en 1961 w:William Watson Introduction China Before the Han Dynasty https://archive.org/details/chinabeforehandy00wats/ Ancient Peoples and Places New York w:Frederick A. Praeger 61-14105 973445772 17345263M 11 https://archive.org/details/chinabeforehandy00wats/page/11/ Within the larger sphere of eastern Asia the Chinese people as we know it today is better defined by language and culture than in anthropological terms. In general a distinction of the physical type may be observed north and south of the Yangtze river, a boundary which corresponded in early times to a cultural division between the relatively advanced civilisation of the Central Plain and the more primitive south. en 1964 Sherman E. Lee Urban Civilization and the Indus Valley; Neolithic and Pre-Shang China A History of Far Eastern Art https://archive.org/details/historyoffareast0000unse_i9c3/ New York Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers 64-11575 327329 23 https://archive.org/details/historyoffareast0000unse_i9c3/page/23/ 1, 2 The meeting point of the plateau and the plains is just east of the first great bend of the Yellow River. Significantly, it is at the central meeting point that we have the coalescence of the three cultures which produced the developed Shang culture. This area, known to the Chinese as Chung Yuan, or central plain, has always been the heartland of the “Middle Kingdom.” en 1980 w:Li Xueqin zh:中国青铜器的奥秘<t:The Wonder of Chinese Bronzes> https://archive.org/details/wonderofchineseb0000lixu/ Beijing w:Foreign Languages Press 642424772 77 https://archive.org/details/wonderofchineseb0000lixu/page/77/ The bronzes from a tomb of the Western Zhou at Yiqi, Tunxi, also have some of their own peculiar designs, such as a gui with a weaving pattern commonly seen on bamboo-woven articles of south China, but rarely encountered in the Central Plain. en 09 December 2012 Grain finds in Yunnan province may shed light on a Bronze Age civilisation w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20121212013630/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1100906/grain-finds-yunnan-province-may-shed-light-bronze-age-civilisation https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1100906/grain-finds-yunnan-province-may-shed-light-bronze-age-civilisation December 12, 2012 1563-9371 648902513 Archaeology "In fact, the settlers of today's northwest China attempted to explore every way they could. When their eastbound march was thwarted by the early Central Plain dwellers, they simply found their way to the sparsely populated southern territory [because it was] easier and less hostile." en October 17, 2014 John Rogers Rare ancient Chinese bronzes go on display in US https://web.archive.org/web/20220614214104/https://apnews.com/article/a9854c114090414a881b9a6679d60e2a 14 June 2022 w:AP News “Wow, 1200 B.C. people are doing stuff like that and we think we’re so technically evolved,” she said. “It’s kind of humbling, actually.”Although there is evidence of bronze works at that time in China’s Central Plain, some 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) away, none come close to being this elaborate. en May 24, 2016 Rachel Feltman Jiajing Wang Surprising ancient beer recipe revealed by Chinese pottery shards w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20160525133221/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/24/surprising-ancient-beer-recipe-revealed-by-chinese-pottery-shards/ 0190-8286 2269358 Science "It is possible that when barley was introduced from western Eurasia into the Central Plain of China, it came with the knowledge that the grain was a good ingredient for beer brewing," Wang told Live Science. "So it was not only the introduction of a new crop, but also the knowledge associated with the crop." en Translations region Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 中原 Dutch: nl Centrale Vlakte f Finnish: fi keskitasanko Korean: ko 중원 (中原) See also Zhongyuan