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'Qíngzhōu' (青州) is the ancient capital of Shandong province, China. It survives to this day as a smaller county-level city to the west of Weifang. It was also the first capital of the Jiedushi (regional military governor) Yi Jeong Ki(korean. aka in Chinese 李正己 Li Zheng Ji), who was an ethnic Goguryeo (Korean), in his independence from the Tang Dynasty during 768~823. His succeeding son gave this independent nation the name Jeh (Korean), or pronounced Qi齊 in chinese. During this time, Half of China's total salt production came from the Shandong province alone, along with ample deposits of iron. Shandong had the benefits of having the only overseas trade seaport that connected with the Eastwardly located Korean nations Parhae and Silla, where as many as 10000 horses were yearly imported.

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Tourism

Timeline

Tourism

★ An old church

★ Muslim district, including at least two large and historic mosques

★ Ou Yuan, a Ming Dynasty garden turned zoo and performance area

★ Qingzhou Museum, featuring some of the Buddhist statues unearthed in 1996/1997

★ Tuoshan/Yuanminshan ("Camel Mountain/Cloud Gate Mountain"), which includes an ancient collection of Buddhist grottoes under national protection. The mountain is located approximately 4 kilometers southwest of the city center (the coordinates of the peak are ).

Timeline

★ 412: The Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Faxian landed on the south of Shandong peninsula at Laoshan, and proceeded to Qingzhou to translate and edit the scriptures he had collected in India.

★ 1986: The name "Qingzhou" is recovered from "Yidu".

★ 1996: The discovery of over 200 buried Buddhist statues at Qingzhou was hailed as a major archaeological find. The statues included early examples of painted figures, and are thought to have been buried due to Emperor Huizong's Song Dynasty repression of Buddhism (he favoured Taoism).