What country was ancient Henan?

In ancient times, Henan was the capital of various dynasties from the Western Zhou Dynasty.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Chengwang made its capital in Luoyi.

Luoyi (now Luoyang) was the capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Song, Chen, Wei, Guan, Zheng, Xu, Ying, Cai, Wei and South Korea were all in Henan.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu made Luoyang his capital.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he moved the capital to Xuchang.

Cao Wei and Cao Cao made Luoyang their capital and moved to Xuchang at the end.

In the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan made Luoyang his capital.

After the reunification of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowen moved to Luoyang.

After Zhao, Anyang was the capital of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasties.

The Sui Dynasty took Luoyang as its capital and established Henan, Xingyang, Chenliu and Liang Jun counties in Henan.

In the Tang Dynasty, Luoyang was the eastern capital, during which it was moved to Luoyang several times, and Duji Road and Henan Road were established in Henan.

Wu Zhou and Wu Zetian made Luoyang their capital and changed Luoyang into the capital of God.

Hou Liang, the later Tang Dynasty, the later Jin Dynasty, the later Han Dynasty and the later Zhou Dynasty in the Five Dynasties were all in Kaifeng and Luoyang.

Kaifeng was the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, with Kaifeng Prefecture (now Kaifeng) as Tokyo, Henan Prefecture (now Luoyang) as Xijing and Yingtianfu (now Shangqiu) as Nanjing.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Yingtianfu (now Shangqiu), the capital of Zhao Gou, succeeded to the throne of the Song Dynasty. In order to continue the imperial system and legal system of the Song Dynasty, the title of Dingguo is still the Song Dynasty, which was called the Southern Song Dynasty in history.

In the second year of Jin Dynasty (12 14), the capital was moved to Kaifeng, and the capital was moved to Shangqiu at the end. After the Song and Jin Dynasties ruled the Huaihe River, the area south of the Huaihe River in Henan Province belonged to the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Yuan Dynasty set up Jiangbei Province in Henan, with Kaifeng as its capital.

In Ming Dynasty, there were 8 states in Henan Province, 1 zhili state.

The Qing dynasty basically followed the division of the Ming dynasty.

Extended data

Henan province is named because most of its history lies south of the Yellow River. In ancient times, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River were criss-crossed, with dense forests and numerous wild elephants. Henan is described as a place where people hold elephants, which is the origin of the hieroglyph "Yu" and the origin of Henan's abbreviation "Yu".

Henan is the birthplace of Chinese nation and civilization, and also the main birthplace of China's surname. Among the 300 major surnames in China, 1 and 7 1 have their roots in Henan, while among the surnames of China 1 arranged by population, 78 have their roots in Henan, which is called "Chen Lin spent a long time and Huang Zheng filled the streets" at home and abroad.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Henan was the main position of "a hundred schools of thought contend", and mainstream thoughts such as Taoism, Mohism, Legalism, famous scholars and strategists all originated in Henan.

Central Plains ideology and culture is the core of China's ideology and culture. Fuxi plays gossip in Huaiyang, Zhoukou. On the basis of Fuxi's Eight Diagrams, Zhou Wenwang wrote the Book of Changes, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations, in the prison of Youlicheng, Tangyin, Anyang.

Zhou Gongdan established a set of laws and regulations in the ritual and music system of Luoyang, the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Confucius, whose ancestral home was in Xiayi, Shangqiu, gave lectures and spread Confucianism in various vassal countries in Henan. Taoism, Mohism, famous artists, legalists and vertical and horizontal thoughts all originated in Henan.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Henan