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 · Zhoukou

Only showing Zhoukou · 2 entries across 1 dynasties

Zhou1046–256 BCE

2 entries

Feudal states, philosophers and the earliest classics.

  1. c. 1000 BCESites

    The state of Chen at Huaiyang

    陈国故城

    A Zhou principality around a lake plain, later the stage for the story of Confucius being besieged between Chen and Cai.

    HuaiyangZhoukou
  2. c. 500 BCEPeople

    Laozi and the pass

    老子与函谷关

    By tradition the keeper of Hangu Pass asked Laozi for a book before letting him west; the Daodejing was the result.

    LingbaoLuyiZhoukou