Nanyang
PreeChina · City Guide Nanyang Where Zhuge Liang farmed before history called him, where China’s greatest physician wrote the treatises […]
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Zhoukou
PreeChina · City Guide Zhoukou Where Chinese civilisation begins — the birthplace of Fuxi, creator of the Eight Trigrams, and
Shangqiu
PreeChina · City Guide Shangqiu One of China’s oldest continuously inhabited cities — the capital of the Shang Dynasty’s ancestral
Xinyang
PreeChina · City Guide Xinyang Where the Central Plains give way to the Dabie Mountains and Henan turns subtropical —
Luoyang
PreeChina · City Guide Luoyang Capital of thirteen dynasties, birthplace of Chinese Buddhism, and home to the peony — China’s
Zaozhuang
PreeChina · City Guide Zaozhuang Where China’s most complete Grand Canal ancient town glows with lantern light above stone arch
Jinan
PreeChina · City Guide Jinan The City of Springs — where 72 named natural artesian springs have surged from the
Jining
PreeChina · City Guide Jining The birthplace of Confucius and Mencius, where the philosophy that shaped two thousand years of
Ji’an
PreeChina · City Guide Ji’an Where the mountains that sheltered the birth of modern China rise above seas of dawn
Jingdezhen
PreeChina · City Guide Jingdezhen For over a thousand years the porcelain capital of the world — where imperial kilns