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Originally in the territory of the Western Qiang peoples, Lanzhou became part of the territory of the State of Qin in the 6th century BC. In 81 BC, under the Han dynasty (206 BC–AD...

Guǎngzhōu is the pinyin romanisation of the Chinese name 廣州, which was simplified in mainland China to 广州 in the 1950s. The name of the city is taken from the ancient Guang Province (Guang Zhou), after it had become the prefecture’s...

As the capital city of Fujian province in southeast China, Fuzhou boasts a history of around 2,000 years. Fuzhou was founded as the name of Yecheng, meaning “the beautiful”...

From the 8th to the 6th centuries BC, Hefei was the site of many small states, later a part of the Chu kingdom. Many archaeological finds dating from this...

Prehistory Kuahuqiao culture was an early Neolithic culture that flourished in the Hangzhou area in 6,000-5,000 BC. Zhejiang was the site of the Neolithic cultures of the Hemudu (starting...

Yunnan Province is believed to be one of the areas of present-day China inhabited by the earliest human forms (genus Homo). Anthropologists believe that there were several successive waves of...

Early history Humans inhabited the Tibetan Plateau at least 21,000 years ago. This population was largely replaced around 3,000 BP by Neolithic immigrants from northern China, but there is...

Early history According to J. P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair, the Chinese describe the existence of “white people with long hair” or the Bai people in the Shan...

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Overview Shaanxi Province (陕西) spans the northwest and southwest regions of China and was historically known as Yongzhou and Liangzhou (陕北 and 关中 belonged to Yongzhou, while 陕南 was...