Shandong Cuisine ( 鲁菜 ） is commonly and simply known as Lu cuisine.

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

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.

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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.

Unlike the earlier two cuisines, which were brought by the ruling class such as nobles, aristocrats and bureaucrats, and then spread to the general populace, the introduction of Shandong cuisine begun with serving the general populace, with much wider market segment, from wealthy merchants to the working class.

By 2005 these three had been joined by six other major airlines: Hainan Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Shandong Airlines, Xiamen Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, and Sichuan Airlines.

The Yellow River split into two new branches: one emptying to the north and the other to the south of the Shandong Peninsula, though Han engineers managed to dam the southern branch by 70 CE.

Xian was persuaded by Cao Cao ( 155 – 220 CE ), then Governor of Yan Province in modern western Shandong and eastern Henan, to move the capital to Xuchang in 196 CE.

Gun was ordered to be executed by Shun at Yushan ( Chinese: 羽山 ), a mountain located between modern Donghai County in Jiangsu Province and Linshu County in Shandong Province.

A summit section was dug across the foothills of the Shandong massif during the 1280s, shortening the overall length by as much as 700 km ( making the total length about 1800 km ) and linking Hangzhou and Beijing with a direct north-south waterway for the first time.

A magistrate of Jining, Shandong sent a memorandum to the throne of the Yongle Emperor protesting the current inefficient means of transporting 4, 000, 000 dan ( 428, 000, 000 liters ) of grain a year by means of transferring it along several different rivers and canals in barge types that went from deep to shallow after the Huai River, and then transferred back onto deep barges once the shipment of grain reached the Yellow River.

The economic importance of the canal likely will increase because the governments of the Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces plan dredging that should increase shipping capacity by 40 percent by 2012.

It was fed by rivers flowing east-west from the borders of the Shandong massif.

He achieved this by joining two of these rivers ' tributaries, the Si and the Ji respectively, at their closest point, across a low watershed of the Shandong massif.

His troops were halved after the defeat and chased by the Japanese along the Jinpu Railway into Shandong Province during the Beiping – Hankou Railway Operation.

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.

First, a drought followed by floods in Shandong province in 1897 – 1898 forced farmers to flee to cities and seek food.

After the German government took over Shandong, many Chinese feared that the missionaries and quite possibly all Christians were imperialist attempts of " carving the melon ," i. e., to divide and colonise China piece by piece.

He was largely successful in eradicating them in Shandong by the time the Boxer Rebellion broke out.

By September 21, Russian troops took Jilin in Shandong, and by the end of the month completely occupied Manchuria, where their presence was a major factor leading to the Russo-Japanese War.

The earliest dynasties ( the Shang dynasty and Zhou dynasty ) exerted varying degrees of control over western Shandong, while eastern Shandong was inhabited by the Laiyi peoples who were considered as the " barbarians ".

Shandong was administered by the Jin Dynasty as Shandong East Circuit and Shandong West Circuit – the first use of its current name.

The modern province of Shandong was created by the Ming Dynasty.

Shandong ranks first among the provinces in the production of a variety of products, including cotton and wheat as well as precious metals such as gold and diamonds.

That state's King Geunchogo seized several coastal cities of China, notably in Liaoxi and Shandong, to retain its superiority over Goguryeo and a variety of southern Chinese dynasties, which had arisen within the context of extended civil wars caused by the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 CE and the concomitant invasions of foreign tribes, including but not limited to the Xiongnu and Xianbei ( Wu Hu ).

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.