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Zhengzhou Luoyang Kaifeng Anyang Jiaozuo Sanmenxia Nanyang Xuchang Shangqiu Pingdingshan Xinyang Shaolin Temple Zhengzhou Shang Capital Site Henan Museum Longmen Grottoes White Horse Temple Erlitou Site Qingming Riverside Landscape Garden Daxiangguo Temple Nanyang Prefectural Office (Nanyang Fu Office) Taocha Headworks and the Danjiangkou Reservoir Jingziguan Ancient Town Shedian Shan-Shan Guild Hall Jun Ware and the Kiln Town of Shenhou Yin Xu (Archaeological Ruins of Yin Xu) Red Flag Canal Yuntai Mountain Chenjiagou and the Taijiquan Heritage Shennong Mountain Hangu Pass Guo State Tombs at Shangcunling Swan Lake Urban Wetland Park Shangqiu Ancient City Mangdangshan Han Tombs Fengxue Temple Mount Jigong Xinyang Tea Gardens Nanwan Lake

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Xuchang.

Xuchang’s own introduction places it at the middle of the central plain, eighty kilometres from Zhengzhou and fifty from the new international airport, with eight motorways meeting there. The name dates from 221 CE, when Cao Pi, quoting his father, renamed the county because “Han perished at Xu, Wei prospers at Xu”. The same county page traces the small places that became great: Yangzhai, the old seat of the Xia ruler, later called Junzhou and renamed Yuzhou in 1575. What survives in the city is not a ruin but a set of working stages — a prime minister’s residence staging a sword-fight every night, a tower lit for a garden party, and a kiln town where the clay is still turned by hand.

Xuchang

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Jun Ware and the Kiln Town of Shenhou

A seven-li street of Jun-ware shops in a mountain basin, with the workshops open to visitors.

Cao Wei Ancient City

A walled quarter inside Xuchang’s moat, where Three Kingdoms history is staged nightly on three different scales.
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  1. Jun Ware and the Kiln Town of Shenhou, XuchangWindmemories · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Display and thumbnail images resized and converted to WebP.
  2. View of the city from Guansheng Hall at the Chunqiu Tower Confucian Temple site in Xuchang.Windmemories · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Display and thumbnail images resized and converted to WebP.