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.
3 entries · Dengfeng
Only showing Dengfeng · 3 entries across 3 dynasties
Wei, Jin & Six Dynasties220–589 CE
1 entriesWarring courts, scholars in groves and the first cave temples.
495 CECultureShaolin Temple founded
少林寺创建
Built on Song Mountain for an Indian monk; the martial tradition grew later, around the temple's land and its guards.
Song960–1279 CE
1 entriesPrinting, kilns, academies and a city of a million people.
1050sCultureThe Cheng brothers teach at Songyang
二程与嵩阳书院
The academy below Song Mountain became a centre of the moral philosophy that shaped later imperial education.
Yuan1271–1368 CE
1 entriesObservatories, calendars and new trade routes.
1276 CEPeopleGuo Shoujing builds the observatory
郭守敬与观星台
A gnomon tower at Dengfeng measured the sun's shadow for a calendar that stayed in use for centuries.