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.
1 entries · Mengzhou
Only showing Mengzhou · 1 entries across 1 dynasties
Sui & Tang581–907 CE
1 entriesGranaries, canals and a capital that traded with the world.
768 CEPeopleHan Yu and the plain style
韩愈与古文运动

Born in Mengzhou, he argued for a return to plain classical prose and reset the tone of Chinese writing.