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.
3 entries · Luohe
Only showing Luohe · 3 entries across 3 dynasties
Prehistoricc. 7000–2000 BCE
1 entriesFarming villages, bone flutes and painted pottery along the Yellow River.
c. 7000 BCECultureJiahu bone flutes
贾湖骨笛
Flutes cut from crane bones, still playable, were buried with the dead at Jiahu near Wuyang — some of the oldest tuned instruments anywhere.
Qin & Han221 BCE–220 CE
1 entriesEmpires, roads, paper and the arrival of Buddhism.
c. 100 CEPeopleXu Shen defines the characters
许慎与《说文解字》
His dictionary, finished around 100 CE, sorted 9,353 characters by radical — the system still used today.
Sui & Tang581–907 CE
1 entriesGranaries, canals and a capital that traded with the world.
584 CESitesXiaoshang Bridge
小商桥
An open-spandrel stone arch bridge on the old north–south road, older than the better-known bridge at Zhaozhou.