Central Plain

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. The region on the lower reaches of the Yellow River which formed the cradle of Chinese civilization.
    — 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.
    The Wonder of Chinese Bronzes

词源

Calque from Mandarin 中原 (Zhōngyuán).
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