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.

1 entries · Xinyang

Only showing Xinyang · 1 entries across 1 dynasties

Sui & Tang581–907 CE

1 entries

Granaries, canals and a capital that traded with the world.

  1. c. 780 CECulture

    Tea from the Xinyang hills

    信阳茶事

    Tea was already a taxed trade here in the Tang; the same hills still produce the leaf known as Xinyang Maojian.

    Xinyang