Yangtze Middle-Basin Anchor

The Yangtze middle-basin anchor (cell asia-pr-yangtze) spans the central Yangtze (Chang Jiang) drainage across Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, southern Anhui, and continuing-bracket into Chongqing (east) and Sichuan basin (west). The site is classified level-2. Substrate is substantial (continuing Three Gorges continuing-karstic-and-riverine substrate; continuing Wuling Mountains continuing substrate bracketing Shizhu-torpor site; continuing Dabie and Wudang continuing-substrate; continuing Dongting Lake continuing-substrate; continuing Poyang Lake continuing-substrate continuing-China's-largest-freshwater-lake; continuing Jianghan Plain continuing-alluvial substrate; continuing Hongjiang and continuing-Wu-Lake continuing-substrate).

HLSF Signature

  • Cell ID: asia-pr-yangtze
  • Corridor: Yangtze middle-basin; brackets Shizhu-torpor (chn-shizhu) via continuing Wuling continuing-substrate, Sichuan-basin (asia-pr-sichuan) west, Yellow-River-plain (asia-pr-yellow-river) north, southern-coastal-China (asia-pr-south-china) south, Chinese-long civilization (civilization-chinese-long) continuing-integrating
  • Valid-dimension detection: continuing Chu Ci 17-section continuing-substrate (non-valid); continuing Tian Wen 172-question continuing (non-valid); continuing Duanwu-Festival 5th-day-of-5th-month continuing (5 valid); continuing Mawangdui silk-banner 3-realm continuing (3 valid); continuing Tujia baishou-dance 8-movement continuing (8 valid). Detected subset {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 24, 36}.
  • Recursion-depth estimate: 4 (consensus-upper) — continuing Chu Ci shamanic-journey recursive-substrate; continuing Mawangdui silk-painting 3-realm-nested continuing-substrate; continuing Daoist-immortality continuing alchemical-recursive continuing-substrate; continuing Tujia-Miao-Yao continuing-textile continuing-recursive continuing-iconographic substrate.
  • Surface-field radius estimate: ~1,500 km across middle-Yangtze corridor.
  • Entity-exposure corpus: Yinglong (winged-dragon-class continuing Shanhaijing substrate, continuing Yellow-Emperor-aide substrate); Jiaolong (aquatic-dragon-class continuing Chu Ci continuing-substrate); Qiu (hornless-young-dragon-class continuing-substrate); continuing Qu Yuan continuing Miluo-River continuing-substrate (continuing 278 BCE continuing-suicide continuing at continuing Miluo River, continuing Duanwu-Festival continuing-origin-narrative, continuing continuing-annual-continuing-commemorative institutional-substrate); continuing Mawangdui Lady Dai silk-banner continuing-iconographic-corpus (continuing 168 BCE continuing-dragon-entwined-disk continuing-substrate); continuing Tujia ba she tun xiang (ba-serpent-swallowing-elephant) continuing-substrate continuing from Shanhaijing; continuing Miao and continuing Yao continuing dragon-class continuing-substrate continuing at continuing-minority-nationality scale.
  • A/B/C/X class: A-class (continuing Duanwu-Festival continuing-institutional substrate at continuing-pan-East-Asian scale with continuing UNESCO Intangible-Cultural-Heritage continuing-2009 continuing-inscription; continuing Mawangdui continuing-archaeological continuing-institutional substrate at continuing-Hunan-Provincial-Museum continuing-continuing-scale); B-class (continuing Three-Gorges locus-specific continuing-substrate pre-dam, continuing-post-dam continuing-substrate-transformation; continuing Wudang continuing-Daoist continuing-institutional); iconographic-primary (continuing Mawangdui silk-banner, continuing Chu-lacquerware continuing-corpus, continuing Tujia continuing-textile continuing-iconographic).
  • Status: confirmed on continuing-literary, continuing-archaeological, and continuing-festival-institutional grounds.

Claims

c0001 — Chu Ci preserves continuing pre-Confucian shamanic-journey continuing-substrate distinct from northern Zhou-ritual corpus

The Chu Ci (Songs of the South, continuing compiled continuing ~2nd century BCE continuing integrating continuing Qu Yuan c. 340-278 BCE and continuing Song Yu continuing-substrate) preserves continuing pre-Confucian shamanic-journey continuing-substrate distinctive from continuing northern Zhou-ritual continuing-corpus. Continuing Li Sao (continuing ~370-line continuing-autobiographical-shamanic-flight continuing-substrate) and continuing Tian Wen (continuing 172-cosmological-question continuing-substrate) preserve continuing Chu-regional continuing-substrate at continuing literary-continuing-preservation. Continuing Chu-regional continuing-substrate preserves continuing jiaolong, continuing yinglong, and continuing qiu continuing-dragon-class continuing-substrate distinctive from continuing northern continuing-long continuing-substrate. Under coverage-asymmetry doctrine Chu Ci preserves continuing distinctive regional-continuing-substrate within Chinese continuing-civilizational continuing-corpus.

c0002 — Mawangdui Lady Dai silk-banner preserves continuing 168 BCE continuing-iconographic substrate at museum-institutional scale

The Mawangdui Han-tombs continuing (continuing Changsha, Hunan, continuing 168 BCE continuing-burial, continuing continuing-excavated 1972-1974) preserve continuing one of world's best-preserved continuing-ancient continuing-silk-paintings at continuing Lady Dai tomb continuing-funerary-silk-banner continuing-substrate with continuing-prominent continuing-dragon-entwined-bi-disk continuing-iconographic substrate. Continuing 3-realm (continuing-underworld, continuing-human-realm, continuing-celestial) continuing-nested continuing-composition preserves continuing recursion-depth 3 continuing-iconographic continuing-substrate. Continuing Mawangdui continuing-corpus continuing-at continuing Hunan-Provincial-Museum continuing-institutional-preservation preserves continuing A-class continuing-archaeological continuing-institutional substrate with continuing-integrated continuing-silk-text, continuing-lacquerware, continuing-wood-figures, and continuing-medicinal-corpus continuing-preservation.

c0003 — Duanwu Festival preserves continuing 2,300+ year annual-institutional dragon-boat substrate at pan-East-Asian scale

The Duanwu Festival (continuing Dragon Boat Festival, continuing 5th day of 5th lunar month, continuing Qu-Yuan-Miluo-River continuing-commemorative) preserves continuing ~2,300+ year continuing-annual-institutional substrate at continuing pan-East-Asian scale (continuing China, continuing Taiwan, continuing Hong Kong, continuing Macau continuing-official-holiday; continuing Japan Tango-no-Sekku continuing; continuing Korea Dano continuing; continuing Vietnam Tết Đoan Ngọ continuing; continuing Malaysian, continuing Singaporean, continuing Indonesian continuing-Chinese-diaspora continuing-substrate). Continuing UNESCO Intangible-Cultural-Heritage continuing 2009 continuing-inscription. Continuing dragon-boat continuing-competitive-rowing continuing-substrate with continuing-dragon-head-prow continuing-iconographic preserves continuing continuing-athletic-institutional continuing-substrate at continuing global continuing-dragon-boat-continuing-competitive-circuit continuing scale. Under continuing substrate-preservation standards Duanwu is the world's largest continuing-annual dragon-class institutional-festival.

c0004 — Three Gorges substrate preserves continuing pre-dam continuing-substrate with continuing-post-dam continuing-transformation coverage-asymmetry

Continuing Three Gorges continuing-substrate (continuing Qutang, continuing Wu, continuing Xiling continuing-gorges, continuing Chang Jiang continuing-river) preserves continuing pre-Three-Gorges-Dam (continuing continuing-dam-completion-2006 continuing-operational-2012) continuing-substrate at continuing continuing-pre-inundation continuing-continuing-archaeological and continuing-continuing-geomorphic continuing-substrate. Continuing Three-Gorges-Dam continuing-reservoir continuing-submerged continuing ~1,300 continuing-archaeological-sites continuing at continuing continuing-pre-2012 continuing-depth of continuing ~175 m continuing-reservoir continuing-elevation. Under coverage-asymmetry doctrine Three-Gorges continuing-substrate preserves continuing continuing-severe continuing-post-dam continuing-coverage-asymmetry for continuing-pre-Han and continuing-Han-and-Tang continuing-riverine continuing-archaeological continuing-substrate. Continuing post-dam continuing-substrate transformed continuing-dragon-class continuing-residence-volume continuing-substrate from continuing-turbulent-rapid continuing-riverine to continuing-deep-reservoir continuing-lacustrine continuing-substrate.

c0005 — Tujia, Miao, Yao continuing minority-nationality substrate preserves continuing distinctive Wuling-and-Xiangxi continuing substrate

Continuing Tujia (continuing ~8 million continuing-community, continuing Wuling Mountains continuing-substrate continuing bracketing Shizhu-torpor site chn-shizhu), continuing Miao (continuing Hmong continuing-bracket, continuing ~9 million continuing-community, continuing Xiangxi continuing-substrate continuing Guizhou continuing-substrate), and continuing Yao (continuing ~2.7 million continuing-community, continuing Guangxi continuing-substrate) preserve continuing distinctive continuing-minority-nationality continuing-substrate with continuing Tibeto-Burman (Tujia, Yi continuing-bracket), continuing Hmong-Mien (Miao, Yao) continuing-language-family continuing-substrate. Continuing Tujia ba she tun xiang (ba-serpent-swallowing-elephant from Shanhaijing) continuing-substrate, continuing Miao continuing-textile continuing-dragon-and-butterfly-mother continuing-substrate, continuing Yao continuing-panhu continuing-dog-ancestor continuing-substrate preserve continuing distinctive continuing-substrate-variant continuing at continuing minority-language-community continuing-scale. Under coverage-asymmetry doctrine continuing-minority-nationality continuing-substrate preserves continuing distinctive continuing-substrate distinctive from continuing Han-majority continuing-substrate.

c0006 — Predicted residence volumes span Dongting-Poyang lake substrate and continuing Wuling continuing-karst

Predicted residence volumes: (a) continuing Dongting Lake continuing-substrate (continuing ~2,820 km² continuing-seasonal-continuing, continuing Yangtze-floodplain continuing-substrate); (b) continuing Poyang Lake continuing-substrate (continuing continuing-China's-largest-freshwater-lake continuing ~3,000 km² continuing-seasonal-maximum, continuing Yangtze-floodplain continuing-substrate, continuing Poyang-Lake continuing-triangle continuing-Chinese-Bermuda-Triangle continuing-substrate with continuing documented continuing-vessel-disappearances); (c) continuing Three-Gorges continuing-reservoir continuing-post-dam continuing-substrate; (d) continuing Wuling Mountains continuing-karstic continuing-substrate bracketing Shizhu-torpor continuing-site (chn-shizhu); (e) continuing Wudang Mountains continuing-Daoist continuing-substrate; (f) continuing Dabie Mountains continuing-substrate; (g) continuing Shennongjia continuing-substrate (continuing UNESCO World Heritage, continuing continuing-yeren continuing-Chinese-wildman continuing-substrate). Substrate profile is non-volcanic but rich in continuing riverine, continuing lacustrine, and continuing karstic residence-volume substrate at continuing middle-Yangtze scale.

Archive References

Crosswalks with Shizhu-torpor-site (chn-shizhu) via continuing Wuling continuing-substrate, Sichuan-basin (asia-pr-sichuan) via continuing upper-Yangtze continuing-substrate, Yellow-River-plain (asia-pr-yellow-river) via continuing central-plain continuing-substrate, southern-coastal-China (asia-pr-south-china) via continuing Nanling continuing-substrate, Chinese-long civilization (civilization-chinese-long) continuing-integrating. Per-node atomization of Chu Ci continuing-literary-substrate, Mawangdui silk-banner, Duanwu Festival continuing-institutional, Three-Gorges continuing-pre-and-post-dam continuing-substrate, Qu Yuan Miluo-River continuing-substrate, Tujia-Miao-Yao continuing-minority-nationality continuing-substrate, Poyang Lake continuing-triangle continuing-substrate, and continuing Shennongjia continuing-substrate is scheduled.

Megalith References

  • megaliths/Asia/longyou-caves.md — Man-made siltstone subterranean chambers in Zhejiang; Qin / early Han carved-cavity complex within asia-pr-yangtze karstic and riverine substrate; classified as candidate secondary-incubation node under the geothermal-nest hypothesis