尼罗河和黄河（The Nile River and the Yellow River）

Abstract

Chinese Abstract: 摘要：通过文字比较研究，发现尼罗河的古埃及象形文字与汉字“河”字很相似。“河”又是黄河的古代简称。晚期的尼罗河象形文字名字与汉字“伊洛”又是很相似，而今天的“伊洛”河是位于黄河中游的两条支流。由此，我们可以得到结论：在古埃及人移民到中国之后，根据类比，古埃及人把黄河想象为尼罗河。

English Abstract: Through the comparative study of characters, it is found that the pictographic names of the Nile are similar to those of the Chinese character "River","He"（河）. However, "River" is an abbreviation of ancient the Yellow River in ancient times. Further, the pictographic name of the Nile river in late periods was found to be similar with the Chinese characters "Yi Luo"(伊洛) which are two tributaries in the midstream of the Yellow River. From this, we can conclude that the Yellow River was considered to be the Nile River. After immigrating to China, the ancient Egyptians imagined the Yellow River to the Nile by analogy.

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Keywords: Nile River, Yellow River, Yi Luo River, He, River name