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 · Ruzhou
Only showing Ruzhou · 1 entries across 1 dynasties
Song960–1279 CE
1 entriesPrinting, kilns, academies and a city of a million people.
1086 CECultureRu ware for the Song court
汝窑天青

A pale blue-green glaze produced for the palace for barely twenty years; fewer than a hundred pieces survive.