Kaifeng
PreeChina · City Guide Kaifeng The Northern Song Dynasty’s imperial capital — once the largest and most cosmopolitan city on […]
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Pingdingshan
PreeChina · City Guide Pingdingshan Where the Song Dynasty’s most celebrated ceramics were born, where granite peaks rise from the
Nanyang
PreeChina · City Guide Nanyang Where Zhuge Liang farmed before history called him, where China’s greatest physician wrote the treatises
Zhoukou
PreeChina · City Guide Zhoukou Where Chinese civilisation begins — the birthplace of Fuxi, creator of the Eight Trigrams, and
Anyang
PreeChina · City Guide Anyang Where Chinese writing was born — the last capital of the Shang Dynasty, whose oracle
Zhumadian
PreeChina · City Guide Zhumadian Southern Henan’s great natural secret — where mist-covered lakes mirror forested hills, bizarre granite peaks
Shangqiu
PreeChina · City Guide Shangqiu One of China’s oldest continuously inhabited cities — the capital of the Shang Dynasty’s ancestral
Xinxiang
PreeChina · City Guide Xinxiang Gateway to the South Taihang Mountains — where vertical limestone canyon walls plunge hundreds of
Luoyang
PreeChina · City Guide Luoyang Capital of thirteen dynasties, birthplace of Chinese Buddhism, and home to the peony — China’s
Yantai
PreeChina · City Guide Yantai Where the legendary Isle of Immortals has drawn pilgrims and emperors for two thousand years,