Changsha
PreeChina · City Guide Changsha The Star City on the Xiang River — where a two-thousand-year-old Han Dynasty noblewoman survived […]
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Huanggang
PreeChina · City Guide Huanggang Where Su Dongpo wrote his greatest prose, where the Dabie Mountains shelter some of Central
Zhengzhou
PreeChina · City Guide Zhengzhou The gateway to Henan and the heart of Chinese civilisation — where the Yellow River
Kaifeng
PreeChina · City Guide Kaifeng The Northern Song Dynasty’s imperial capital — once the largest and most cosmopolitan city on
Anyang
PreeChina · City Guide Anyang Where Chinese writing was born — the last capital of the Shang Dynasty, whose oracle
Luoyang
PreeChina · City Guide Luoyang Capital of thirteen dynasties, birthplace of Chinese Buddhism, and home to the peony — China’s
Tai’an
PreeChina · City Guide Tai’an Gateway to Mount Tai — China’s most revered of the Five Sacred Mountains, a UNESCO
Jinan
PreeChina · City Guide Jinan The City of Springs — where 72 named natural artesian springs have surged from the
Linyi
PreeChina · City Guide Linyi Where the mountains that sheltered China’s greatest revolutionary base area rise above seas of morning
Jining
PreeChina · City Guide Jining The birthplace of Confucius and Mencius, where the philosophy that shaped two thousand years of