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.

1 entries · Jiaozuo

Only showing Jiaozuo · 1 entries across 1 dynasties

Wei, Jin & Six Dynasties220–589 CE

1 entries

Warring courts, scholars in groves and the first cave temples.

  1. c. 250 CECulture

    The Seven Sages in the bamboo

    竹林七贤

    Poets and drinkers gathered in the hills of Shanyang, refusing court office and inventing a style of learned withdrawal.

    Jiaozuo