黄河，中华民族的母亲河，中华文明的摇篮。从一百多万年前的旧石器时代开始，黄河文化就在中华文明的历史长河里绽放出绚丽夺目的光彩。

裴李岗文化、磁山文化、仰韶文化、大汶口文化、龙山文化、马家窑文化、齐家文化……它们沿河而生，构成了华夏文明的主体。《易经》《道德经》《诗经》《论语》《尚书》等典籍在此完成，诸子百家的代表人物大多出生和活动于黄河流域，中国古代四大发明在这里诞生，勤劳智慧的中华儿女，用丰富的思想文化与科技成果铸就中华文明的根和魂，为中华民族坚定文化自信打下坚实根基。

2013年11月，习近平总书记视察位于山东济宁的孔子研究院，新时代文化“两创”的号角从黄河岸边响彻全国。

The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, and the cradle of the Chinese civilization. Since the Paleolithic age over a million years ago, the Yellow River culture has been glowing with gorgeous splendor in the long history of the Chinese civilization.

The Peiligang culture, the Cishan culture, the Yangshao culture, the Dawenkou culture, the Longshan culture, the Majiayao culture, and the Qijia culture... Born along the river, they constitute the main body of Chinese civilization.The Book of Changes,The Book of Tao and Teh (Book of the Way and Its Virtue),The Book of Songs,The Analects of Confucius,andShangshu (The Book of Documents)were completed here; most representatives of pre-Qin philosophers were born and lived in the Yellow River Basin; the four great inventions of ancient China were born here. With rich ideological, cultural, scientific and technological achievements, the diligent and intelligent Chinese people have created the root and soul of the Chinese civilization, and laid a solid foundation for the Chinese nation to strengthen cultural self-confidence.

In November 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the Confucius Research Institute in Jining. Then, the clarion call for cultural “Creative Transformation and Innovative Development” in a new era reverberated throughout the country from the banks of the Yellow River.

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