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 · Yuzhou

Only showing Yuzhou · 2 entries across 2 dynasties

Song960–1279 CE

1 entries

Printing, kilns, academies and a city of a million people.

  1. c. 1100 CECulture

    Jun ware and its copper reds

    钧瓷窑变

    Potters at Yuzhou used copper in the glaze to get unpredictable purples and reds — the first such effects in the world.

    Yuzhou

Ming & Qing1368–1911 CE

1 entries

Merchant halls, temple fairs and crafts still practised today.

  1. 1600sCulture

    Yuzhou becomes a medicine market

    禹州药市

    Growers and traders from across the country met here; the processing workshops still supply herbal pharmacies.

    Yuzhou