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unusual facts about Yangtze



Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel

He regularly swam in the Yangtze River, and after meeting American writer Ernest Hemingway he dismissed him derisively: "Tough? Why, I’m tougher than he is!" .

Bai Di

Baidicheng (白帝), ancient temple complex on a hill on the northern shore of the Yangtze River in China

Baiheliang

Baiheliang (Simplified: 白鹤梁, Traditional: 白鶴梁, Pinyin: Báihèliáng, lit. "White Crane Ridge") is a rock outcropping in Fuling District, Chongqing, People's Republic of China, that parallels the flow of the Yangtze.

Caoyun system

Later, in 486 CE, King Fuchai of Wu linked the Yangtze and Huai Rivers by excavating the Han Ravine (邗沟) so that water flowed from the Yangtze through the Lakes Fanliang (樊梁湖), Bozhi (博芝湖) and Sheyang (射阳湖) into the Wei at Huai'an.

Chushi Gangdruk

Chushi Gangdruk "Four Rivers, Six Ranges" is the name traditionally given to the eastern Tibetan region of Kham where the gorges of the Salween (Tib. Ngul-chu), Mekong (Da-chu), Yangtze (Dri-chu) and Yalong (Dza-chu) rivers, all arising on the Tibetan Plateau, pass between six parallel ranges of mountains that form the watersheds for these rivers.

E. kishinouyei

Euchiloglanis kishinouyei, a synonym for Euchiloglanis davidi, a catfish species found in the Yangtze drainage in China

Emperor Yang of Sui

Apparently beginning to consider the idea of evacuating to south of the Yangtze River, he ordered that a major palace be built at Piling Commandery (毗陵, roughly modern Changzhou, Jiangsu), and that another palace be built at Kuaiji Commandery (會稽, roughly modern Shaoxing, Zhejiang).

Finless porpoise

In 1990, five Yangtze porpoises were relocated to the Tian-e-Zhou Oxbow Nature Reserve, and now a population of 28 inhabits the lake.

Fon Huffman

The Japanese attack and sinking of the Panay in the Yangtze was captured on camera by Universal news reporter, Norman Alley.

G50 Shanghai–Chongqing Expressway

The expressway again crosses to the north of the Yangtze over the Zhongxian Huyu Expressway Bridge in Zhong County.

Hengduan Mountains

In the southwestern part of the Hengduan Mountain region, three great rivers of China and Southeast Asia - Yangtze (Jinsha), Mekong (Lancang) and Salween (Nujiang) - run in deep parallel valleys separated by mountain ranges that are components of the Hengduan system.

Jialing

Jialing River (嘉陵江), tributary of the Yangtze River, and one of the main rivers of Sichuan

Jiang

Chang Jiang, Yangtze River, known as simply Jiang in ancient China

Kearns, New South Wales

Streets were named after famous rivers of the world such as Mississippi, Danube and Yangtze and the first residents moved in in 1985.

Li River

Lishui River (澧水), in Hunan, China, one of the Yangtze River's four largest tributaries in the province

Liangzhu

Liangzhu culture, a Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River Delta of China

Luo Binwang

The red rice from Hailing 海陵, in modern Taizhou, Jiangsu will fill the storage, and as the yellow flag rises from the banks of the Yangtze, how distant can the Restoration be?

Shu Roads

Yàngbā (洋巴道) - or Lychee Road (荔枝道, Lìzhīdào), the easternmost road, ended east of Chongqing in Fuling (涪陵) on the Yangtze.

The Sand Pebbles

Richard McKenna served aboard a Yangtze River gunboat in 1936 but set the novel a decade earlier, during the Nationalist Northern Expedition of 1925–1927, aboard the fictional USS San Pablo, a gunboat left from the Spanish–American War.

The Song of the Rivers

The sprawling film celebrates international workers movements along six major rivers: the Volga, Mississippi, Ganges, Nile, Amazon and the Yangtze.

Up the Yangtze

One is a sixteen-year old girl from a particularly poor family living on the banks of the Yangtze near Fengdu, named "Cindy" Yu Shui.

Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge

Early formulations of plans for a railway bridge over the Yangtze at Wuhan were put forward by Zhang Zhidong in the late 19th century.

Xiao Mohe

In 580, after Northern Zhou captured the region between the Yangtze and Huai from Chen, Emperor Xuan made an attempt to recapture the territory, and Xiao served in the campaign along with Emperor Xuan's nephew Chen Huiji (陳慧紀), but after he was unable to capture Guangling (廣陵, in modern Huaiyin, Jiangsu), he withdrew.

Yu Liang

After Sima Rui the Prince of Langye was posted to Jianye as the military commander of the area south of the Yangtze in 307, he invited Yu Liang to serve on his staff, and during that time, he became impressed by Yu's abilities and solemn attitude, and he took Yu Liang's sister Yu Wenjun to be his son Sima Shao's wife.


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