Bian River (China)
river in People's Republic of China
The Bian River (Chinese: 汴河; pinyin: Biàn Hé), also known in Chinese as the Bian Shui (汴水), was an ancient river partly located within the borders of Kaifeng City, Henan, China.
Tang dynasty (618–907 CE) poet Pi Rixiu wrote about the river in his Treasured Memories of the Bian River (汴河怀古). Zhang Zeduan features the river running through Kaifeng in his Along the River During the Qingming Festival.
“Bian River (China)” enters the record as river in People's Republic of China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bian, River and China can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Bian River (China)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bian, River and China provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4902473. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bian River (China)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.