Cradle of China

Chronicle

Three thousand years, one province.

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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.

2 entries · Pingdingshan

Only showing Pingdingshan · 2 entries across 2 dynasties

Zhou1046–256 BCE

1 entries

Feudal states, philosophers and the earliest classics.

  1. c. 1000 BCESites

    The Ying state cemetery

    应国墓地

    Bronzes from a small Zhou vassal state, including vessels that record royal gift-giving, were excavated west of Pingdingshan.

    Pingdingshan

Ming & Qing1368–1911 CE

1 entries

Merchant halls, temple fairs and crafts still practised today.

  1. 1700sCulture

    The Majie storytelling fair

    马街书会

    Every spring, singers and drum storytellers set up in a field near Baofeng to perform for anyone who stops.

    Pingdingshan