Cradle of China

Chronicle

Three thousand years, one province.

75

entries

10

eras

44

places

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.

2 entries · Hebi

Only showing Hebi · 2 entries across 2 dynasties

Xia & Shangc. 2070–1046 BCE

1 entries

Bronze casting, oracle bones and the first walled capitals.

  1. c. 1100 BCESites

    Chaoge, the last Shang court

    朝歌：商末都城

    The Shang court moved to Chaoge near today's Qi County; the name survives in the stories of the fall of the dynasty.

    Hebi

Ming & Qing1368–1911 CE

1 entries

Merchant halls, temple fairs and crafts still practised today.

  1. 1600sCulture

    The Xun County temple fair

    浚县正月庙会

    A month-long winter fair around two mountain temples, with drum teams, opera and pilgrimage processions.

    Hebi