Crises of river life and formation of river ethics;

The theoretical framework for "sustaining the Yellow River healthy life" is proposed on the concept of "river life" and has been gradually improved.

In the process of social economic development, in pursuit of the social function of the river, human being have ignored rivers\' bearing capacity and exploited rivers unreasonably for a long time, which caused a serious crisis of the river life.

It affirms the life significance and value of man, represents free life especially inherent spiritual life, and is full of the stream of life.

Making Confucius experience of feelings as a headstream by having him face the flow of water in a river,it is analyzed how the connotation of Confucius taste of feeling has transformed in the course of interpretation in past dynasties from three aspects of philosophic images of "river-flow",moral conn.

Discussion on the meaning of river health life;