A Wisdom Archive on Zhifu Island

Located in Bohai Sea, the island is 4 km from Downtown Zhifu and is 10 km x 1 km. Part of Public Road No. 26 connects the western end of the island and the north part of the mainland peninsula. Originally, the island was disconnected from the mainland, but for a period of millennium of years, the sand and soil in the ocean floor built up a 600-metre wide pathway. Thus the island is called the "Mainland-connecting Island" in Chinese (陸連島); it could even be considered a small peninsula. The island's largest mountain is Laoye Mount ... Including:

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Located in Bohai Sea, the island is 4 km from Downtown Zhifu and is 10 km x 1 km. Part of Public Road No. 26 connects the western end of the island and the north part of the mainland peninsula. Originally, the island was disconnected from the mainland, but for a period of millennium of years, the sand and soil in the ocean floor built up a 600-metre wide pathway. Thus the island is called the "Mainland-connecting Island" in Chinese (陸連島); it c ...

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Archeological exhibitions discovered over 200 artifacts, including stone axes, and short axes (錛 : Bēn), pottery fragments, bone needles, and bone hairpin. These and C-14 dating indicated that the island has been settled since the Neolithic period. People were buried here during the Zhou Dynasty, including Lord Kang of Qi State (齊康公), who died on the island. The ruins of the cemetery still exist today. Lord Yang Temple (陽主廟 Yángzhǔ Miào) was built during the early Zhou Dynasty by the State of Qí (齊) to worship Lord Yang, the fifth deity o ...

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Bo Hai (Chinese: 渤海; Hanyu Pinyin: Bóhăi; Wade-Giles: Po-hai literally "Bo Sea"), also known as Bohai Sea or Bohai Bay, is the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea on the coast of northeastern China. It is approximately 823,000 km², its proximity to Beijing, the capital of China, make it one of the busiest seaways in the world. In recent decades, petroleum and natu ... Including:

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Yantai (Simplified: 烟台; Traditional: 煙台; Hanyu Pinyin: Yāntái) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Located on the southern coast of the Bohai Sea and the eastern coast of the Bohai Bay, Yantai borders the cities of Qingdao and Weihai to the southwest and east respectively. The largest fishing seaport in Shandong and a robust economic center today, Yantai used to be known to the West as Chefoo, a misnomer which refers, in Chinese, solely to Zhifu Isla ... Including:

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Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇) (November/December 260 BC-September 10, 210 BC), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BC to 221 BC, and then the first emperor of a unified China from 221 BC to 210 BC, ruling under the name First Emperor. Having unified China, he and his prime minister Li Si passed a series of major reforms aimed at cementing the unification, and they undertook some gargantuan construction projects, most notably the precursor version of the current Great Wall of China. For a ... Including:

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Qin Shi Huang was interested in immortality and visited Zhifu Island. These deeds became a very popular story of the emperor sending a Zhifu islander, Xu Fu (徐福), as the religious leader of ships with hundreds of young men and women in search of the pill of immortality. These people never returned, as they knew that if they did return without the "immortality pill", they would surely be executed. The legend claims that they settled down in one of the Japanese islands. The legend also claims that this is the reason why many aspects of the Japanese language are similar to their Chinese counterparts, and the fact that the ...

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The gulf is formed by the Liaodong Peninsula to the northeast and the Shandong Peninsula to the south. Bo Hai consists of three bays: Laizhou Bay to the south, Liaodong Bay to the north, and Bohai Bay to the west. The rivers Huang He, Liao He, and Hai He empty into Bo Hai. Bo Hai borders the Chinese provinces of Shandong, Liaoning, and Hebei, and Tianjin municipality. Port cities on Bo Hai coast include: Hebei: Qinhuangdao Liaoning: Dalian, Huludao, Jinzhou, Yingkou Shandong: Longkou, Weihai, Yantai Tianjin: Tanggu Islands include: Zhifu Island, part o ...

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The prefecture-level city of Yantai administers 12 county-level divisions, including 4 districts, 7 county-level cities and 1 county. Zhifu District (芝罘区) Fushan District (福山区) Muping District (牟平区) Laishan District (莱山区) Longkou City (龙口市) Laiyang City (莱阳市) Laizhou City (莱州市) Penglai City (蓬莱市) Zhaoyuan City (招远市) Qixia City (栖霞市) Haiyang City (海阳市) Changdao County (长岛县) These are further divided into 148 township-level divisions, including 9 ...

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Yantai is currently the second largest industrial city in Shandong, next only to Qingdao. Two sub-county special economic zones also exist, the Yantai Economy and Technology Development Area (YEDA), created in 1984 in northern Fushan District, and the Yantai Export Processing Area, formed in 2000 in north Zhifu District. The county-level city of Longkou is well known throughout China for its ...

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The region was inhabited by the non-Han people of the Eastern Yi (東夷), who were believed to have established a small state during the Xia Dynasty on the site of present-day Laizhou City. It became a feudal state call Lai (萊國) until the Warring States Period, when it was annexed by the State of Qi. During the Qin Dynasty, Yantai belonged to the Qi Prefecture, later renamed Donglai Prefecture (東萊郡) during the Han Dynasty. The area was known as the Donglai Kingdom during the Jin Dynasty (265-420) but later returned to prefecture s ...

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