Shandong (chn)

Shandong

Shandong ranks 2,110th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Portuguese Macau, Helena, Montana, and Poitou. Memorable people born in Shandong include Cao Zhi, Qi Jiguang, and Wang Bi. Memorable people who died in Shandong include Guan Zhong, and Joseph Freinademetz. Shandong has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many philosophers, and religious figures. Shandong is located in China.

Shandong is a coastal province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural and religious center for Taoism, Chinese Buddhism and Confucianism. Shandong's Mount Tai is the most revered mountain of Taoism and a site with one of the longest histories of continuous religious worship in the world. The Buddhist temples in the mountains south of the provincial capital of Jinan were once among the foremost Buddhist sites in China. The city of Qufu was the birthplace of Confucius, and later became the center of Confucianism. Read more on Wikipedia