Cradle of China

Chronicle

Three thousand years, one province.

75

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.

2 entries · Xinzheng

Only showing Xinzheng · 2 entries across 2 dynasties

Prehistoricc. 7000–2000 BCE

1 entries

Farming villages, bone flutes and painted pottery along the Yellow River.

  1. c. 7000 BCESites

    Peiligang: the first farming villages

    裴李岗：最早的农耕村落

    Millet farmers, stone sickles and the earliest pottery found in the region, dug out of a village site east of today's Xinzheng.

    XinzhengZhengzhou

Zhou1046–256 BCE

1 entries

Feudal states, philosophers and the earliest classics.

  1. 770 BCESites

    Zheng and Han capitals side by side

    郑韩故城

    Two states built their capitals on the same ground at Xinzheng; bronze and bone workshops lay between the walls.

    Xinzheng