Qingzhou

{{See also|Qingzhou (ancient China)}}

Qingzhou is named after one of the nine provinces that appear in the Yu Gong geography chapter of the classic Book of Documents composed during the Warring States period of Chinese history (403 BC － 221 BC). The history of this centuries old city dates back to ancient times twenty two centuries ago when it was part of the Dongyi area.

{{As of|2012}}, this city is divided to 3 subdistricts and 9 towns.{{cite web

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;Subdistricts

• Wangfu Subdistrict ({{lang|zh-hans|王府街道}})
• Yidu Subdistrict ({{lang|zh-hans|益都街道}})
• Yunmenshan Subdistrict ({{lang|zh-hans|云门山街道}})

;Towns

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|location = Qingzhou, elevation {{convert|103|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)

|Jan high C = 3.8

|Feb high C = 7.2

|Mar high C = 15.0

|Apr high C = 21.3

|May high C = 27.6

|Jun high C = 30.8

|Jul high C = 32.2

|Aug high C = 30.7

|Sep high C = 27.0

|Oct high C = 20.9

|Nov high C = 13.1

|Dec high C = 5.7

|Jan mean C = -1.9

|Feb mean C = 1.2

|Mar mean C = 8.3

|Apr mean C = 14.8

|May mean C = 21.3

|Jun mean C = 25.0

|Jul mean C = 27.0

|Aug mean C = 25.7

|Sep mean C = 21.1

|Oct mean C = 14.2

|Nov mean C = 7.1

|Dec mean C = 0.0

|Jan low C = -6.1

|Feb low C = -3.5

|Mar low C = 2.3

|Apr low C = 8.4

|May low C = 14.8

|Jun low C = 19.4

|Jul low C = 22.6

|Aug low C = 21.8

|Sep low C = 16.3

|Oct low C = 8.9

|Nov low C = 2.3

|Dec low C = -4.2

|Jan record high C = 20.0 |Jan record low C = -15.3

|Feb record high C = 26.1 |Feb record low C = -13.2

|Mar record high C = 32.4 |Mar record low C = -7.6

|Apr record high C = 35.9 |Apr record low C = -2.3

|May record high C = 38.4 |May record low C = 3.0

|Jun record high C = 41.9 |Jun record low C = 9.5

|Jul record high C = 39.6 |Jul record low C = 13.8

|Aug record high C = 37.9 |Aug record low C = 14.0

|Sep record high C = 39.0 |Sep record low C = 6.5

|Oct record high C = 35.4 |Oct record low C = -1.1

|Nov record high C = 27.4 |Nov record low C = -11.7

|Dec record high C = 23.1 |Dec record low C = -17.3

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|Jan precipitation mm = 8.8

|Feb precipitation mm = 15.0

|Mar precipitation mm = 14.4

|Apr precipitation mm = 31.2

|May precipitation mm = 55.9

|Jun precipitation mm = 76.2

|Jul precipitation mm = 137.6

|Aug precipitation mm = 198.2

|Sep precipitation mm = 57.8

|Oct precipitation mm = 32.3

|Nov precipitation mm = 32.6

|Dec precipitation mm = 12.0

|Jan humidity = 57

|Feb humidity = 54

|Mar humidity = 48

|Apr humidity = 49

|May humidity = 55

|Jun humidity = 60

|Jul humidity = 74

|Aug humidity = 78

|Sep humidity = 71

|Oct humidity = 65

|Nov humidity = 63

|Dec humidity = 58

|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm

|Jan precipitation days = 3.0

|Feb precipitation days = 3.5

|Mar precipitation days = 4.0

|Apr precipitation days = 5.6

|May precipitation days = 7.0

|Jun precipitation days = 8.3

|Jul precipitation days = 12.1

|Aug precipitation days = 11.7

|Sep precipitation days = 6.9

|Oct precipitation days = 5.6

|Nov precipitation days = 4.9

|Dec precipitation days = 4.1

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|Jan sun = 170.2

|Feb sun = 171.6

|Mar sun = 220.0

|Apr sun = 240.2

|May sun = 266.6

|Jun sun = 240.0

|Jul sun = 208.5

|Aug sun = 199.8

|Sep sun = 203.5

|Oct sun = 200.6

|Nov sun = 171.1

|Dec sun = 170.6

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| Jan percentsun = 55

| Feb percentsun = 56

| Mar percentsun = 59

| Apr percentsun = 61

| May percentsun = 61

| Jun percentsun = 55

| Jul percentsun = 47

| Aug percentsun = 48

| Sep percentsun = 55

| Oct percentsun = 58

| Nov percentsun = 56

| Dec percentsun = 57

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|Jan snow days = 4.6

|Feb snow days = 3.8

|Mar snow days = 1.7

|Apr snow days = 0.2

|May snow days = 0

|Jun snow days = 0

|Jul snow days = 0

|Aug snow days = 0

|Sep snow days = 0

|Oct snow days = 0

|Nov snow days = 1.1

|Dec snow days = 2.9

|year snow days =

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Attractions

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• Fan Gongting an ancient pavilion built in Song Dynasty. It was a private garden of Fan Zhongyan who was the most notable poet and prosaist in an age of lively literature prosperous.
• A Muslim district, including at least two large and historic mosques. The oldest one is the Zhenjiao Mosque ({{zh|c={{linktext|真|教|寺}}|p=Zhēnjiào Sì}}). It dates back to 1302 and is one of the three most well-known mosques of the Yuan dynasty.{{Cite book|last=Steinhardt|first=Nancy Shatzman|title=China's Early Mosques|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|year=2015|isbn=978-1-4744-3721-9|location=Edinburgh|pages=163}}
• Ou Yuan, a Ming Dynasty garden. It turned to be a combination of park and zoo, and is used as a performance area for citizens in the dawn and nightfall.
• Qingzhou Museum, featuring some of the Buddhist statues unearthed in 1996–7
• Tuoshan ("Camel Mountain") and Yunmenshan ("Cloud Gate Mountain") a pair of mountains which include an ancient collection of Buddhist grottoes under national protection. The mountains are located approximately {{convert|4|km}} southwest of the city center, with a single gondola servicing both. (the coordinates of the peak are {{coord|36|38|54.9|N|118|27|27.5|E}}).
• Yang Tian, a natural park with marvelous surface features. It is covered by virgin forest, through which crystal rivers are flowing, and dotted with quantities of natural rock cavities. What makes this park more amazing is the so-called thousand Buddha's cave, which is considered as the first cave for the Buddhas. This is because of the huge volume of the cavern and the 1048 Buddhas in it that are in different postures and look extraordinarily vivid.

• 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 "Yi Du".
• 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).[http://static.royalacademy.org.uk/files/buddha-student-guide-18-18.pdf Royal Academy of Arts exhibition brochure: "Return of the Buddha. The Qingzhou discoveries"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010140738/http://static.royalacademy.org.uk/files/buddha-student-guide-18-18.pdf |date=October 10, 2008 }}

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