A Brief Introduction to Shandong Province
My dear friends,welcome to shandong province.Confucius said:Isn\'t it a great pleasure to have friends coming from afar!Today it\'s a pleasure for me to meet you here and to be of service.First,I\'ll give you a brief introduction to shandong province.
1.Natural Geography
shandong province is located in the east of china ,at the lower reaches of the yellow River.It is one of themost important cosatal province.It covers an area of 156,700square kilometers,occupying1.6%of the country\'s territory .Shandong boats a coastal line of 3,024 kilometers.It bordes ocean in the east and land in the west.shandong haspeninsula and island.The shandong peninsula protrudes between the Bohai sea shnd Yellow sea,and faces the Liaodong peninsula in the north acro the bohai straits, forming the maritime outpost of the nation\'s capital--beijing.The western inland part borders Hebei, Henan,Anhui and Jiangsu provinces from north to south. 2.Administrative Divisions and Population
Shandong has 17 prefectural -lever cites,140 county-level districts,among them 49 diatricts in urbanarea,31 county-level cities, 60 counties.The population of Shandong is about 93 million.Jinan is the capital of the province .Qingdao is a very famous coastai city.
3.Climate
Shandong has a warm-temperate monsoon climate.It has hot summers with centralized rainfall sa well as short springs and autumns with an average annual temperature ranging form 11centigrade to 14centigrade.With an average annual rainfall ranging form 550mm to 950mm, the rainfall reduces from the southeast to northwest.Because 60% rainfall is centralized in summre,it is easy to come to waterlog in summer and drought in winter and spring.It is most influential for agriculture.4.History
Shandong is one of the birthplances of ancient Chinese culture.The foil of Yiyuan Man proves that Shandong is the cradle of ancient human beinga four or five thousand years ago.Beixin Culture, Dawenkou Culture and Longshan Culture found in Shandong trace the change from matriarchal clan socity to patriarchal
clan society with rather advanced agriculture,animal husbandy and handicraft industry.Shandong is the headsteam of pottery and silk.During the spring and Autuma and the Warring States Period, the Qi State and Lu State in shandong Province are two advanced ducal states.Because of this,we call Shandong \"theLand of Qi and Lu\"is also called for ashort name.5.History figures
Shandong enjoys the reputation of \"the hometown of Confucius and Mencius\"and \"the land of ceremony
and proprierty\" .A lot of historic figures still give great influences until today.Confucianism ,which founded by the great philosopher,educatir Confucius is the backbone of Chinese traditional culture and has exerted profound influence in the world.\"Strategics of Sun ZI\" (待续）2010-7-11 6.Tourism resources
Shandong tourism resources are abundant, there are beautiful natural scenery and a large number of spots.The world natural and cultural double heritage Tarzan, world cultural heritage, qufu konglin was suggested, Confucius and Confucian temple, the qi LinZi GuDou international beer city, Qingdao, yantai international wine city, days end rongcheng city, jinan, the mouth of the Yellow River, the fathers of wonders, seazan KunYu mountain, a beautiful legend Yi mountain, the well-known novel by famous famous liangshan, all is the ideal destination tourists.
7.Traffic
Shandong jinan, including nine airport YaoQiang international airport, Qingdao liuting international airport and yantai laishan international airport is the international paenger airport.These airports have flights to Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and the domestic many major cities.
Shandong highway is in length and quality, etc.Shandong highway length and density in the first place.Beijing-shanghai, beijing-fuzhou, tongsan expreway, tsing silver for to shandong provides quick and convenient traffic.Provincial traffic is very convenient, highway to jinan, capital and other closely linked in 16 cities.By the end of 2007, shandong highway traffic mileage more than 4,000 kilometers.
Shandong railway has forming self traffic network.Jingjiu railway traverses from Beijing and Shanghai, shandong north and south, jiazhouparade
Baotu spring - parade has a long history.During the parade in the park, you will find any place in the top, lanterns, building on the surface the bushes, house, etc.Hua-durng shapes, dragon and lion, crab etc shape.Meanwhile, at the same time, such as in the park entertainment by HanChuan, lion dance, stilts.Parade from lunar January 1st lasted a month.
(2) temple 280m above sea level
During the temple fair, build a color stage, performance DeFangXi, usually continue for three days.Celebrations include circus, magic and xun monkey performance.Meanwhile, the monk temple buddhist bleing ceremony held.Many vendors in internal and external booth pendulum 280m above sea level, the main park, candle and selling incense local products.In the temple fair on September 9th lunar calendar held in within 280m above sea level.
(3) Qingdao international beer festival
Qingdao international beer festival include wine, performing arts tourism, drinking game, economic and trade exhibition, etc.More than 20 of the world\'s famous beer manufacturer participation, Asia\'s biggest beer oktoberfest becomes event.Each year the oktoberfest held the second weekend in August, lasted 16 days.
(4) Confucius international culture festival
Activities and by offering hole development.According to traditional offering hole scheduled for each year on September 26th to October 10.During the festival, held a series of activities such as large music sacrifice dance, international Confucius academic seminars, ancient customs performance.
(5) mount tai international DengShanJie
Mount tai international DengShanJie are large tourism festival activities at home and abroad, reputation.The main activities have walk climbing competition, mountain biking game, cultural relics and treasures exhibitions and other artistic and cultural activities.DengShanJie every September 6 to 9 held.
(6) weifang international kite festival
Weifang is international kite, weifang international kite festival held April every year.During the holiday season, there are all kinds of activities, such as the opening ceremony, international kite, fly game, international kite kite awards, ten grand prix, visit kite museum, Yang port folklore performance etc.Dear friends, shandong is magnificent, shandong is friendly.Hospitality shandong welcome you!
