Yellow River

79:1.8But even in the twen­ti­eth cen­tury af­ter Christ there are traces of And­ite blood among the Tu­ra­nian and Ti­betan peo­ples, as is wit­nessed by the blond types oc­ca­sion­ally found in these re­gions. The early Chi­nese an­nals re­cord the pres­ence of the red-haired no­mads to the north of the peace­ful set­tle­ments of the Yel­low River, and there still re­main paint­ings which faith­fully re­cord the pres­ence of both the blond-And­ite and the brunet-Mon­go­lian types in the Tarim basin of long ago.

79:6.5Twenty thou­sand years ago the an­ces­tors of the Chi­nese had built up a dozen strong cen­ters of prim­i­tive cul­ture and learn­ing, es­pe­cially along the Yel­low River and the Yangtze. And now these cen­ters be­gan to be re­in­forced by the ar­rival of a steady stream of su­pe­rior blended peo­ples from Sinkiang and Ti­bet. The mi­gra­tion from Ti­bet to the Yangtze val­ley was not so ex­ten­sive as in the north, nei­ther were the Ti­betan cen­ters so ad­vanced as those of the Tarim basin. But both move­ments car­ried a cer­tain amount of And­ite blood east­ward to the river set­tle­ments.

79:8.5Be­tween 4000 and 500 B.C. the po­lit­i­cal re­uni­fi­ca­tion of the yel­low race was con­sum­mated, but the cul­tural union of the Yangtze and Yel­low river cen­ters had al­ready been ef­fected. This po­lit­i­cal re­uni­fi­ca­tion of the later tribal groups was not with­out con­flict, but the so­ci­etal opin­ion of war re­mained low; an­ces­tor wor­ship, in­creas­ing di­alects, and no call for mil­i­tary ac­tion for thou­sands upon thou­sands of years had ren­dered this peo­ple ul­tra­peace­ful.

79:1.3By 8000 B.C. the slowly in­creas­ing arid­ity of the high­land re­gions of cen­tral Asia be­gan to drive the And­ites to the river bot­toms and the seashores. This in­creas­ing drought not only drove them to the val­leys of the Nile, Eu­phrates, In­dus, and Yel­low rivers, but it pro­duced a new de­vel­op­ment in And­ite civ­i­liza­tion. A new class of men, the traders, be­gan to ap­pear in large num­bers.

79:7.1About fif­teen thou­sand years ago the And­ites, in con­sid­er­able num­bers, were travers­ing the pass of Ti Tao and spread­ing out over the up­per val­ley of the Yel­low River among the Chi­nese set­tle­ments of Kansu. Pres­ently they pen­e­trated east­ward to Ho­nan, where the most pro­gres­sive set­tle­ments were sit­u­ated. This in­fil­tra­tion from the west was about half An­don­ite and half And­ite.

79:7.2The north­ern cen­ters of cul­ture along the Yel­low River had al­ways been more pro­gres­sive than the south­ern set­tle­ments on the Yangtze. Within a few thou­sand years af­ter the ar­rival of even the small num­bers of these su­pe­rior mor­tals, the set­tle­ments along the Yel­low River had forged ahead of the Yangtze vil­lages and had achieved an ad­vanced po­si­tion over their breth­ren in the south which has ever since been main­tained.