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.
2 entries · Wen County
Only showing Wen County · 2 entries across 2 dynasties
Wei, Jin & Six Dynasties220–589 CE
1 entriesWarring courts, scholars in groves and the first cave temples.
c. 240 CEPeopleSima Yi of Wen County
温县司马懿
A strategist born at Xiaojingli in Wen County whose descendants founded the Jin dynasty.
Ming & Qing1368–1911 CE
1 entriesMerchant halls, temple fairs and crafts still practised today.
1600sCultureTaichi takes shape at Chenjiagou
陈家沟太极拳
The Chen family village codified a slow, rooted boxing style that later spread worldwide.