Xiangyang
PreeChina · City Guide Xiangyang China’s premier fortress city — where the Han River bends around walls that have held […]
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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
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