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 · Shangqiu
Only showing Shangqiu · 3 entries across 3 dynasties
Zhou1046–256 BCE
1 entriesFeudal states, philosophers and the earliest classics.
c. 1000 BCESitesThe Shang descendants at Song
宋国故城
The Zhou enfeoffed the Shang royal line at Song, around today's Shangqiu; the city wall is still traceable.
Wei, Jin & Six Dynasties220–589 CE
1 entriesWarring courts, scholars in groves and the first cave temples.
c. 500 CECultureThe ballad of Mulan
木兰传说
A northern ballad about a daughter who takes her father's place in the army; Yucheng in eastern Henan keeps a temple to her.
Song960–1279 CE
1 entriesPrinting, kilns, academies and a city of a million people.
c. 1010 CECultureThe Yingtian Academy
应天书院
One of the four great Song academies, raised to national status and later staffed by officials who rewrote the exams.