Cradle of China

Chronicle

Three thousand years, one province.

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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 · Lingbao

Only showing Lingbao · 1 entries across 1 dynasties

Zhou1046–256 BCE

1 entries

Feudal states, philosophers and the earliest classics.

  1. c. 500 BCEPeople

    Laozi and the pass

    老子与函谷关

    By tradition the keeper of Hangu Pass asked Laozi for a book before letting him west; the Daodejing was the result.

    LingbaoLuyiZhoukou