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 · Jiyuan

Only showing Jiyuan · 1 entries across 1 dynasties

Sui & Tang581–907 CE

1 entries

Granaries, canals and a capital that traded with the world.

  1. c. 600 CESites

    The temple to the Ji River

    济渎庙

    One of the four great river sacrifices of imperial China, laid out in Jiyuan where the Ji River was believed to rise.

    Jiyuan