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Qingzhou
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Q?ngzhōu (青州) is the ancient capital of Shandong provinces of China|province, China. It survives to this day as a smaller city to the west of Weifang.
- Muslim district, including at least two large and historic mosques
- Ou Yuan, a Ming Dynasty garden turned zoo and performance area
- Qingzhou Museum, featuring some of the Buddhist statues unearthed in 1996/1997
- Tuoshan ("Camel Mountain"), which includes an ancient collection of Buddhist grottoes under national protection.
- 412: The Chinese Buddhism|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 "Yidu".
- 1996: The discovery of over 200 buried Buddhism|Buddhist statues at Qingzhou was hailed as a major archaeology|archaeological find. The statues included early examples of painted figures, and are thought to have been buried due to Emperor Huizong of Song China|Emperor Huizong's Song Dynasty (960-1279)|Song Dynasty repression of Buddhism (he favoured Taoism).
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