throughout chinese history, over 1,200 years ago, it inspired a poem so famous tang dynasty poet li bai, and he wrote — "can you not see the yellow river running from heaven, "rushing towards the ocean without return?" and if you didn't know better, you'd assume he must every year, millions of people come here. this is waterfall water? you do get a sense of the colour of the yellow river there. they laugh this fine soil carried by the river formed fertile plains... ..that were crucial to the development of early chinese cultures. they created striking painted pottery, at the heart of the city, china's national museum is home on the upper yellow river around 5,000 years ago. it's not hard to see where the artisans found their inspiration. there is a very bold and simple beauty, really, to the semi—abstract decoration on this urn that, to my mind, immediately suggests surging, watery forces, just from above. and then down below, things are considerably more placid, tranquil. the waters seem gentle. wang yueqian is a curator at the national museum. inspired majiayao art thousands of years

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