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 · Yongcheng
Only showing Yongcheng · 1 entries across 1 dynasties
Qin & Han221 BCE–220 CE
1 entriesEmpires, roads, paper and the arrival of Buddhism.
209 BCEThe snake at Mangdang
芒砀山斩蛇
A local magistrate's runner turned rebel after a night on Mangdang Mountain; the story became the founding legend of Han.