What is the name of the second largest river in China?

The second largest river in China is called Pearl River or Pearl River, formerly known as Yuejiang River, which is the second and third longest river in China. The Pearl River originates from Maxiong Mountain in Wumeng Mountain of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, flows through six provinces in central and western China, and flows into the South China Sea from eight downstream estuaries. The Pearl River is the second largest river with annual flow in China, with a total length of 2,320 kilometers. At first, it refers to a river from Guangzhou to the estuary, and later it gradually became the general name of Xijiang, Beijiang, Dongjiang and Pearl River Delta rivers.

The origin of the name

The Pearl River originally refers to a 96-kilometer-long waterway from Guangzhou to the estuary. It was named after the famous Haizhu Island (Stone), and later it gradually became the general name of the rivers in Xijiang, Dongjiang, Beijiang and Pearl River Delta. The Pearl River can be divided into narrow sense and broad sense. In a narrow sense, the Pearl River refers to the small section of river that flows through Guangzhou from north to south and from west to east after the tributaries of the Pearl River meet in Sanshui, northwest of Guangzhou? .