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 · Gongyi
Only showing Gongyi · 4 entries across 4 dynasties
Wei, Jin & Six Dynasties220–589 CE
1 entriesWarring courts, scholars in groves and the first cave temples.
c. 500 CESitesThe small grottoes at Gongyi
巩义石窟
A compact Northern Wei site whose relief processions and flying figures are among the best preserved of the period.
Sui & Tang581–907 CE
1 entriesGranaries, canals and a capital that traded with the world.
712 CEPeopleDu Fu is born at Gongyi
杜甫生于巩义
The poet of the Tang collapse was born in a cave dwelling at Gongyi; his boyhood home is now a quiet museum.
Song960–1279 CE
1 entriesPrinting, kilns, academies and a city of a million people.
1000sSitesThe Northern Song imperial tombs
北宋皇陵
Seven emperors and their courts lie under fields and stone figures south of the Yellow River.
Ming & Qing1368–1911 CE
1 entriesMerchant halls, temple fairs and crafts still practised today.
1700sSitesThe Kang family estate at Gongyi
康百万庄园
A merchant clan built a fortified estate on the river road, with granaries, schools and its own water gate.