With a long history, Shandong Cuisine once formed an important part of the imperial cuisine and was widely promoted in North China.

Shandong Cuisine is featured by a variety of cooking techniques and seafood.

As Beijing has been the capital of China for centuries, its cuisine is influenced by culinary traditions from all over China, but the style that has the greatest influence on Beijing cuisine is that of the eastern coastal province of Shandong.

Biston betularia is found in China ( Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan,

Fried scorpion is a traditional dish from Shandong, China.

* The Pizhi Pagoda of Lingyan Temple, Shandong, China is completed in 1063.

* Detail from a rubbing of a stone relief in Wu family shrine ( Wuliangci ), Jiaxiang, Shandong, is made.

* The Pizhi Pagoda of Lingyan Temple, Shandong, China is completed, standing at a height of 54 m ( 177 ft ) tall.

Its greatest height is reached in the mountains of Shandong, at a summit of 42 m ( 138 ft ).

From here to Linqing, the canal is called the Lu or ‘ Shandong ’ Canal.

Major flooding in AD 11 is credited with the downfall of the short-lived Xin dynasty, and another flood in AD 70 returned the river north of Shandong on essentially its present course.

The current mouth of the Yellow River is located at Dongying, Shandong.

The only independent country left was now state of Qi, in the far east, what is now the Shandong peninsula.

A common nickname for Shandong is Qílǔ (), after the States of Qi and Lu that existed in the area during the Spring and Autumn Period.

The cultural dominance of the State of Lu heritage is reflected in the official abbreviation for Shandong which is " 鲁 " ().

The province is located on the eastern edge of the North China Plain and in the lower reaches of the Yellow River ( Huang He ) and extends out to sea in the form of the Shandong Peninsula.

The Han Dynasty that followed created two zhou (" provinces ") in what is now modern Shandong: Qingzhou Province ( 青州 ) in the north and Yanzhou Province ( 兗州 ) in the south.

Shandong is mostly flat in terrain.

The east of the province is the hilly Shandong Peninsula extending into the sea ; it separates Bohai Sea in the northwest from the Yellow Sea to the east and south.

The highest peak of Shandong is the highest peak in the Taishan area: Jade Emperor Peak, with a height of.

Shandong Peninsula has a rocky coastline with cliffs, bays, and islands ; the large Laizhou Bay, the southernmost of the three bays of Bohai Sea, is found to the north, between Dongying and Penglai ; Jiaozhou Bay, which is much smaller, is found to the south, next to Qingdao.

The Honda 49cc GXH-50, Shandong HuaSheng 49cc 142F, Robin / Subaru 25cc, and other small four-stroke engines are commonly used as part of an engine / transmission combination for adaptation to a variety of bicycle frames.

Before the Grand Canal was rebuilt, grain was transferred to Beijing in two ways ; one route was simply via the East China Sea, from the port of Liujiagang ( near Suzhou ); the other was a far more laborious process of transferring the grain from large to small shallow barges ( after passing the Huai River and having to cross southwestern Shandong ), then transferred back to large river barges on the Yellow River before finally reaching Beijing.

A number of different styles contribute to Chinese cuisine, but perhaps the best known and most influential are Cantonese cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine and Szechuan cuisine.

The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known by foreigners as the Boxers, or " Yihe Magic Boxing ", was a secret society founded in the northern coastal province of Shandong consisting largely of people who had lost their livelihoods due to imperialism and natural disasters.

Chinese diplomatic failure at the Paris Peace Conference became the incident that touched off the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, and became known as the " Shandong Problem ".

Shandong citizens are also known to have the highest average height of any Chinese province.

(; ; ) also known in the West by its postal map spelling Tsingtao, is a major city with a population of over 8. 715 million ( 2010 census ) in eastern Shandong province, Eastern China.

The largest fishing seaport in Shandong and a robust economic center today, Yantai used to be known to the West as Chefoo, a misnomer which refers, in Chinese, solely to Zhifu Island, which is historically governed by Yantai.

The region known as Northern Zhili ( Bei Zhili ) was composed of parts of the modern provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, and the administrative districts of Beijing and Tianjin.

On May 4, 1919, students in Beijing protested the Paris Peace Conference giving German rights over Shandong to Imperial Japan, turning this cultural movement into a political one in what became known as the May Fourth Movement.

Taishi Ci was born in Huangxian of Donglai commandery ( 東萊, present day Shandong ) where he studied hard, looked after his mother and was known throughout the province for his fealty, bravery, loyalty, and ingenuity.

This was known as the " Shandong Problem ".

The Fatimid Egyptian sea captain known as Domiyat traveled to a Buddhist site of pilgrimage in Shandong in the year 1008 AD.

In 2007, scientists described the first known extensive dromaeosaur trackway, in Shandong, China.

As he was once the chancellor of Beihai Commandery ( present-day Weifang, Shandong ), he was also known as Kong Beihai.

The word jinsidun is a Chinese transliteration of " Kingston ", thus they are also known as the Shandong Kingston Lions.

In earlier seasons, they had been known as the Shandong Flaming Bulls ( 山东火牛 ), but changed their name at the start of the 2003 – 2004 season.

In fact, its description pertained to areas of the Yellow River, the lower valleys of the Yangtze, with the plain between them and the Shandong peninsula, and to the west the most northern parts of the Wei River and the Han River were known ( along with the southern parts of modern day Shanxi province ).

Laizhou Bay () is the southern arm of the Bohai Sea ( also known as the Bohai Gulf, or just Bo Hai ), which is a large relatively shallow extension of Korea Bay ( Northern Yellow Sea ) behind the Liaodong Peninsula to the north, and the Shandong Peninsula to the south.

The 100-chapter novel was written by someone pennamed Xizhou Sheng ( 西周生 ), about whom nothing is known, except that he might live in Shandong, as the novel, like Jin Ping Mei, contains many phrases from the Shandong dialect, and indeed Jin Ping Mei is quoted in the novel.

Born in Dong ' e ( modern Shandong, Yanggu, China ) county of Yan Province ( aka Yanzhou ), Cheng Yu's early life was unrecorded, but he was known as a brave man in the area during his early 40s.