Three thousand years, one province.
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Henan is where a great deal of Chinese history happened first: farming villages, bronze capitals, the earliest writing, cave temples, the Song court. This page puts those events on one line you can filter — and on one map you can pin them to.
4 entries · Anyang
Only showing Anyang · 4 entries across 2 dynasties
Xia & Shangc. 2070–1046 BCE
3 entriesBronze casting, oracle bones and the first walled capitals.
c. 1300 BCESitesYinxu: the last Shang capital
殷墟：商代晚期都城
Palaces, royal tombs and more than a hundred thousand oracle bones, inscribed with the earliest mature Chinese writing.
c. 1250 BCEPeopleFu Hao, general and consort
妇好：王后与统帅
Her undisturbed tomb held bronze weapons, jade and sixteen sacrificed people; oracle bones record her leading armies of thousands.
c. 1100 BCEThe king held at Youli
羑里演易
The Zhou leader was imprisoned at Youli by the last Shang king and, by tradition, worked out the hexagrams there.
Song960–1279 CE
1 entriesPrinting, kilns, academies and a city of a million people.
1130sPeopleYue Fei of Tangyin
岳飞与汤阴
A general from Tangyin who fought the Jin and was executed by his own court; his temple at the birthplace is a pilgrimage site.