What was Shandong called as in ancient times and what was its earliest name?

Shandong, anciently known as the land of Qilu, began to be called by this name in the pre-Qin era, and the name Shandong, first appeared during the Warring States period, when the Qin people in Guanzhong, called the area east of Mount Banshan or Mount Hua Shandong, and sometimes referred generally to the territories of the six states outside of Qin.

At this time, Shandong was a geographical generalization, not yet an accurate geographical concept. By the time of the Tang Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, the vast area of the Yellow River basin east of the Taihang Mountains was called Shandong, and by the end of the Tang Dynasty, some people used Shandong to refer exclusively to the land of Qilu.

To the Jin Dynasty, set up Shandong east, west two roads, Shandong has really become the name of the political region. In the early Ming Dynasty, set up Shandong Province, later renamed Shandong Chengxuan Chief Secretary. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, set up Shandong Province, "Shandong" officially became the province's moniker. The ancients to the left for the east, so also known as Shandong for the "mountain left".

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Traditional Regional Culture of Shandong--Qilu Culture

Qilu culture is a regional culture formed and developed in Shandong during the pre-Qin period when the land of the Qilu State was compared to the present, including Taoist culture, military culture, legal culture, Mohist culture, as well as yin and yang, vertical and horizontal, square art, criminal, name, agriculture, medicine and so on. The core of which is Confucianism. According to contemporary writer Tian Maoquan, after the Qin and Han dynasties, Qilu culture gradually evolved from a regional culture to an official and mainstream culture.

The origins of Qilu culture should be traced back to the development of the Dongyi tribe, an ancient ethnic group that inhabited the land of Qilu 5,000 years ago. This ethnic group had been honored by Hou Yi and Da Shun in legends. Since the 20th century, a large number of prehistoric archaeological excavations and thousands of sites have proved that this was a people with early cultural development and high civilization.

On the land of Qilu, there not only exists a cultural genealogy that is both inherited and relatively independent in the evolution of cultural traditions from the Houli culture of 8,000 years ago, to the Beixin and Dawenkou cultures, to the Longshan culture and to the Yakeshi culture of about 4,000 years ago,

but also numerous castle ruins and images, texts, pottery, and production and production sites that signify the high degree of civilization have been found about 5,000 years ago. In addition, numerous castle ruins dating back to around 5,000 years ago were discovered, as well as pictographic and ceramic inscriptions marking the high level of development of the civilization, and the production of a large number of exquisite eggshell black ceramics and a variety of handmade jewelry.

During the Warring States period, Confucianism had practically taken over the states of Lu and Qi, realizing the Qiluization of Confucianism. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Dong Zhongshu absorbed the new ideas of Qi and Lu and formed the New Confucianism system, which was recognized by the ruling class, and Confucianism has since developed from "the study of Qi and Lu" to "the sole respect for Confucianism".

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