Ep. 273 | Henan Province (Part 1)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This is Part 1 of a four-part series focusing on the Chinese history that happened in one of China's oldest provinces. In Part 1 we get the lay of the land in Henan, discuss its mythical beginnings as well as the neolithic cultures of Peiligang, Yangshao, Longshan, and Erlitou. We also take the offramp to look at a couple of the more well-known Henan dishes. We'll get as far as the Xia and Shang dynasties and a little of the Western Zhou. All the Chinese terms from this episode (and there's a LOT of them this time) can be viewed in Pinyin, Chinese characters, and English at the website at: https://teacup.media/chinahistorypodcastepisodes/ep-273-henan-province-part-1

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0:00.0	Good evening everybody. Wow, is it May already?
0:02.7	Lausel Montgomery here with another CHP episode, number 273, since the Royal Wee began this
0:09.8	long-running family program back in June 2010. Ah, the good old days.
0:14.8	In this episode, I'd like to start a whole new series that's going to run for the rest of this year
0:19.7	and next year as well. As of last night, when I checked, if you include Taiwan, there are still
0:26.7	23 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two special administrative
0:32.5	regions that make up the People's Republic of China. And starting from this episode, we'll look
0:38.3	at them all. But not all at once. Otherwise, the Mays will change the name of this show to the
0:43.2	Chinese Provincial History Podcast. We'll still keep the whole random topics format going,
0:49.5	like we always did. And every now and then, I'll present one of these histories of the provinces.
0:56.0	So you can hear the same old history of China told a couple dozen times, but from the unique
1:01.1	vantage point of each individual province. It's only fitting that I begin with Hanan.
1:07.6	Many years ago, when I was still in the business of flooding the U.S. market with low-priced
1:13.6	maiden China products, I was in New York for a trade show, probably the National Stationary Show
1:20.8	at the Javits Center. And as usual, I was there with a number of colleagues from the head office
1:26.1	in Ningbao in To. And I'm guessing that it was most likely following another fine dinner at the
1:32.3	Tang Pavilion on West 55th, or Wulian Ye on West 48th Street, that we found ourselves wandering
1:40.4	around Times Square. And I'll never forget, among the many advertisements flashing from the
1:46.3	buildings surrounding the Square, there was one from the Hanan Tourism Bureau. And the billboard said
1:54.2	something to the extent of, visit Hanan where China began. And though the good and great people of
2:01.4	Shanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Gansu might hotly dispute this notion, I think there's nothing wrong
2:09.7	in saying that's where China began. Hanan province. And we know from past history classes, all those
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