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Province, China. In 2007 a remarkable series of well-preserved frescoes dating to the Western Han Period (206 BC - 25 AD) was discovered in a tomb as construction workers were excavating for a planned shopping mall. The frescoes show, among other things, one of the earliest pictorial representations of Confucius meeting

Laozi Laozi (), also known by numerous other names, was a semilegendary ancient Chinese Taoist philosopher. Laozi ( zh, ) is a Chinese honorific, generally translated as "the Old Master". Traditional accounts say he was born as in the state ...

Examples of the frescoes

Queen Mother of the West from a Wall-Painting in Han Dynasty Tomb

Confucius and Laozi, fresco from a Western Han tomb of Dongping County, Shandong province, China

History

This region is home to many Buddhist temples and some remarkable Buddhist inscriptions, originally texts were carved during the Northern Qi, but in the eleventh century these were carved over with pictorial images of Buddhas. In 1438, migrating

Hui people The Hui people ( zh, c=, p=Huízú, w=Hui2-tsu2, Xiao'erjing: , dng, Хуэйзў, ) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the ...

introduced Islam to Dongping County. During the reign of the Wanli Emperor, the was built. During the Cultural Revolution in Dongping County, religious activities were prohibited. Mosques were destroyed, imams were expelled, and the Quran was burned. The practice of Islam in the county was resumed in 1979. The

provincial government and the Dongping County government allocated special funding to restore Zhoucheng Mosque in 1997, and again in 2001.

Administration

As 2020, this county is divided to 3 subdistricts, 9

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and 2 townships. ;Subdistricts * () * () * Pengji Subdistrict () ;Towns ;Townships * Shanglaozhuang Township () * Jiuxian Township ()

Demographics

In 2016, Dongping County had a permanent population of about 762,100 people, of which, 41.35% lived in urban areas.

Vital statistics

As of 2016, Dongping County had a birth rate of 14.9 per thousand, and a death rate of 5.0 per thousand, giving the county a rate of natural increase of 9.9 per thousand.

Ethnic groups

Most of the county's population is ethnically Han Chinese, however, Dongping County is home to 18 ethnic minorities, comprising about 4,300 people. The largest ethnic minority is the Hui people, who number about 4,100 as of 2016. Other ethnic minorities in the county include the Mongolian,

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Miao Miao may refer to: * Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China * Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages * Miao (Unicode ...

, Dong, Bai,

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, Dai, Lisu, Li, Jingpo, Yi, Zhuang, Buyi, Korean,

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, and Wa peoples. With the exception of the Hui people, many of Dongping County's ethnic minorities recently moved to the county for work, marriage, or other regions, and are not concentrated in any particular place within the county. The county has four designated ethnic villages: () in , Xiwangzhuang Village () in , Zhanzhuang Village () in , and Beimen Village () in .

Hui people

Unlike the other minorities in Dongping County, the Hui people are concentrated within certain areas within the county. Large concentrations of Hui people can be found in Laohu, Zhoucheng Subdistrict, and Dongping Subdistrict. Smaller concentrations can be found within , Xinhu, , , and Shanglaozhuang Township.

Culture

Language

The Dongping dialect, a dialect of Mandarin Chinese, is spoken widely throughout the county. In some southern portions of the county, as well as regions surrounding Dongping Lake, retroflexes are dropped, resulting in certain characters with different pronunciations in

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(such as and ) being pronounced similarly. Some areas in the southeast and north of the county also employ erhua.

Religion

As of 2021, Dongping County is home to 19 religious venues approved by the county government, representing 5 different faith groups: Catholicism, Protestantism,

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, Daoism, and Buddhism. These venues include the and the Daoist site of .

Climate

Notable people

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, Qi consort from * , Red Eyebrows commander * , Han dynasty scholar and writer * , Northern Qi monk and calligrapher *

Cheng Yaojin Cheng Zhijie (589 – 26 February 665), courtesy name Yizhen, better known by his original name Cheng Yaojin, was a Chinese general who served under the emperors Gaozu, Taizong and Gaozong in the early Tang dynasty. His portrait was on display ...

, Tang dynasty general * He Ning, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period official * and , Song dynasty father and son zhuangyuan * Liang Kai, Song dynasty painter * , Song dynasty

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* Wang Zhen, Yuan dynasty inventor, engineer, writer, and politician * , Yuan dynasty dramatist *

Luo Guanzhong Luo Ben (c. 1330–1400, or c.1280–1360), better known by his courtesy name Guanzhong (Mandarin pronunciation: ), was a Chinese writer who lived during the Ming dynasty. He was also known by his pseudonym Huhai Sanren (). Luo was attri ...

(disputed), Yuan dynasty writer * , Ming dynasty politician * , Ming dynasty scholar

References

* Ha, Jungmin. (2016) ''Shaping Religious and Cultural Aspiration: Engraved Sutras in Southwestern Shandong Province from the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 CE), China.'' Phd Dissertation. Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University. https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/12216/Ha_duke_0066D_13425.pdf * Wang, Yongbo and Ledderose, Lothar. (2014) ''Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. (Vol.1) Shandong Sheng = Shandong Province.'' edited by Wang Yongbo and Lothar Ledderose.Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz ; Hangzhou : China Academy of Art Press, 2014. {{authority control Counties of Shandong Tai'an