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 · Xingyang
Only showing Xingyang · 1 entries across 1 dynasties
Qin & Han221 BCE–220 CE
1 entriesEmpires, roads, paper and the arrival of Buddhism.
203 BCEThe Hong Canal truce
鸿沟之约

Chu and Han drew a line east and west of the canal near Xingyang; the word for an unbridgeable gap comes from here.