The Yellow River culture provides rich resources for the continuity of Chinese civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "the Yellow River culture is an important part of Chinese civilization and the root and soul of the Chinese nation." In the early Neolithic period, there were Pei Ligang culture, Cishan culture, Dadiwan culture in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, and Beixin culture in the lower reaches of the Yellow River; in the middle Neolithic period, there was Yangshao culture in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, Majiayao culture in the upper reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Dawenkou culture in the lower reaches of the Yellow River; and in the late Neolithic period, there was Qijia culture in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and Longshan culture in the lower reaches of the Yellow River......The Yellow River culture gave birth to the earliest civilization in China and laid down the genes of early Chinese civilization. From this period onwards, the Yellow River culture has never been interrupted and has given birth to many cultural types such as Huangshui culture, Hailuo culture, Guanzhong culture, Qilu culture and so on. In China's 5000 years of uninterrupted civilization history, the Yellow River basin has been the center of national politics, economy and culture for more than 3000 years. Through the changes of the natural environment, the rise and fall of dynasties, the inheritance gene of Yellow River culture has always flowed in the development of Chinese civilization, and also carved the imprints of civilization in different periods.

The Yellow River culture has given impetus to the innovativeness of Chinese civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "The Chinese nation has always continued to create its own material, spiritual and political civilization in the spirit of 'innovating every day,' and has stood as the most prosperous and powerful civilization in the world for a long historical period." The Yellow River Basin is an important birthplace of China's material, spiritual and political civilization. Chinese characters were conceived here, and the system of rituals and music was created here. The Yellow River Basin not only gave birth to the "Four Great Inventions" and classic works such as The Book of Songs, Laozi, and The Records of the Grand Historian, but also saw the emergence of generations of starry-eyed literati and philosophers, as well as a hundred schools of thought. In October 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the Yellow River Delta Agricultural Hi-Tech Demonstration Zone in Dongying, focusing on the comprehensive utilization of saline and alkaline land in the Yellow River Delta and the development of modern agriculture. For thousands of years, the Yellow River basin has been the core area of Chinese farming civilization. Important Arts for the People's Walfare reflects the rich experience and inventions of the ancient working people in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River who were engaged in agricultural production, and embodies the advanced agricultural civilization of China in ancient times. The achievements of the civilization created by the ancestors with their wisdom and sweat have enabled the Chinese civilization to always stand in the forest of world civilization.

The Yellow River culture laid the foundation for the unity and inclusiveness of Chinese civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his important speech at the Symposium on Cultural Inheritance and Development that "the long and agreeable tradition of Chinese civilization has formed a unity of diversity, unity and concentration." The Yellow River culture was formed during the Qin and Han Dynasties and became the main culture, which was mainly manifested in the unity of multi-ethnicity, multi-region and multi-culture based on the farming economy. The Yellow River culture continued to develop from the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, manifesting itself as a fusion of the cultures of the Central Plains and the nomadic regions in the north, and continuing to influence the Jianghuai and Pearl River valleys. Eventually, the basic map and pattern of the Chinese nation with the Yellow River culture as the main body, a highly developed economy, a more extensive area, and multi-ethnicity integration and coexistence were formed, and the cultural, political, economic, and other aspects of the ideas it constituted continue to have an impact to this day.

Among the splendid cultures of China, the Yellow River culture is undoubtedly the most representative and influential main culture. Yellow River Culture is a regional culture formed by the Yellow River flowing through nine provinces. The intricate natural environment and open and tolerant humanistic environment make it a cultural system with rich content, obvious characteristics and coexistence of similarities and differences, which contains the national character, cultural concepts, ideology, folk customs and habits formed by the people of various ethnic groups in the Yellow River Basin in the history of living, reproduction and development, and is an abstracted and systematized summary of the contents, ways and features of the spiritual life of the people of various ethnic groups in the Yellow River Basin.

The Yellow River culture is a multilevel and multidimensional cultural complex with farming culture as the main body, integrating nomadic culture, fishing and hunting culture, farming culture, Silk Road culture, ocean culture and other diversified cultures. For thousands of years, the people have formed a self-sufficient farming production and life style with oriental characteristics from the perspective of their own survival and development, and have derived profound philosophical ideas with macro patterns, such as timing and geographical conditions, combination of use and nourishment, sustainable development, etc., which are closely related to farming, and have formed a harmonious view of the Three Principles of Talent, a view of timing that tends to avoid harm, a subjective view of things and places, and an ecological view of turning wastes into treasures in the long-term practice of farming, these original cultural consciousnesses are still of great significance in promoting the construction of ecological civilization and realizing the modernization of harmonious coexistence between human beings and nature.

The strong vitality of the Yellow River culture stems comes from its inherent characteristic of openness and tolerance. For thousands of years, the importance of the Yellow River basin in terms of its strategic position, historical deposits, natural environment, cultural core, etc., has highlighted the important position of the basin in the history of the development of the Chinese nation, and it has often been ahead of the human civilization in other countries and regions in the same period. The process of development and growth of Yellow River culture is characterized by openness, which is not only good at learning and absorbing various cultures in the surrounding area, but also maintains long-term communication and integration with extra-territorial cultures such as those in Europe and Africa, shaping the historical genes of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation that is open and tolerant, pluralistic and integrated, and consolidating the historical foundation of the Chinese national community, which also provides historical reference for the construction of a community of destiny for mankind nowadays.

The fusion and unity of national psychology and mainstream consciousness with a common source formed in the Yellow River Basin over thousands of years is a spiritual wealth shared by people of all ethnic groups, a vivid manifestation of the diversified and integrated development of the Chinese nation, and the foundation and bond of the unity of the Chinese nation. At a time when the world is undergoing a great change that has not been seen for a hundred years, the Yellow River culture provides great spiritual power for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's cultural thought, to write a new chapter of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, we need to deeply excavate, research and interpret the contemporary value and global significance of the Yellow River culture, and tell the history and today's story of the Yellow River well.

The Yellow River, which keeps rushing forward with indomitable momentum, has shaped the national character of the Chinese nation of continuous self-improvement, and is the important foundation of the Chinese nation's firm cultural self-confidence. Explaining the Yellow River culture and telling the story of the Yellow River can help enhance cultural self-awareness and cultural self-confidence, and accumulate spiritual power and solidify the cultural foundation for national rejuvenation.

The prerequisite for telling the story of the Yellow River well is to carry out the research on the Yellow River culture in a comprehensive and systematic way. The Yellow River culture is a huge cultural complex including crop cultivation, environmental changes, animal husbandry, life skills, customs, rules and regulations, entertainment and games, religious rites and laws, water conservancy technology and many other cultural objects, and it is a valuable asset for forging the sense of community of the Chinese nation. The Yellow River Basin has nurtured the tradition of national unity, the quality of self-improvement and the ideals of the world as a whole, and these humanistic spirits have become an important part of the Yellow River culture.

To tell the story of the Yellow River well, we should have a grand vision. The Yellow River culture formed in history covers a large amount of land in China and runs through different historical periods, while telling the story of the Yellow River should not only have the vision of the basin space, but also have the deep vision of the historical development, and summarize the stories of typical significance in the cultural library which is rich in connotation, diversified in form, and inherited in an orderly manner. Told the rich qualities of the Yellow River culture through different story elements, and then the national cultural symbols can be highly recognized by the general public, so as to present the Yellow River culture that embodies the spirit of the Chinese nation.

Telling the story of the Yellow River should be carried out with the people as the center. The Yellow River culture is formed by the people's active creation in the great practice of Yellow River management. Telling the story of the Yellow River is not only to promote the protection, inheritance and promotion of the Yellow River culture, but also to promote the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, so as to realize the rejuvenation of the nation and the people's good life. To tell the story of the Yellow River, it is necessary to tell the arduous labor of ancestors who have been governing the Yellow River, the great achievements of the Party leading the people to govern the Yellow River, the touching stories of the people fighting against disasters, and the glorious history of the Chinese nation's development in harmony with the water and the nature.

Telling the story of the Yellow River requires a sense of innovation and development. In thousands of years of history of the Yellow River, countless cultural forms have been formed, which have become valuable cultural resources for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and how to transform the advantages of these cultural resources into the advantages of economic and social development is an important proposition for telling the story of the Yellow River. We should promote the inheritance, development and innovation of the Yellow River culture through telling the Yellow River story, develop in inheritance and innovate in development, inject the vitality of the Yellow River culture for the times, nourish the modern civilization with its spiritual qualities and cultural genes, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the Yellow River culture in the present era.