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.
5 entries · Nanyang
Only showing Nanyang · 5 entries across 4 dynasties
Zhou1046–256 BCE
1 entriesFeudal states, philosophers and the earliest classics.
c. 500 BCEPeopleFan Li retires to trade
范蠡归隐经商
After helping Yue defeat Wu, he left court and became a merchant; later tradition links his origins to the Wan area.
Qin & Han221 BCE–220 CE
2 entriesEmpires, roads, paper and the arrival of Buddhism.
132 CEPeopleZhang Heng and the seismoscope
张衡与地动仪
A court astronomer from Nanyang who built a bronze vessel that dropped a ball when the ground shook elsewhere.
c. 200 CEPeopleZhang Zhongjing writes the clinical manual
张仲景与《伤寒杂病论》
A Nanyang physician whose book on fevers and internal illness set the pattern for two thousand years of practice.
Wei, Jin & Six Dynasties220–589 CE
1 entriesWarring courts, scholars in groves and the first cave temples.
207 CEThree visits to the thatched hut
三顾茅庐
A warlord called three times on a recluse in the Nanyang hills; the meeting set the strategy for a divided empire.
Yuan1271–1368 CE
1 entriesObservatories, calendars and new trade routes.
1271 CESitesThe Nanyang prefectural office
南阳府衙
A Yuan-founded administrative compound, rebuilt through the Ming and Qing, showing how a prefecture governed.