Shandong*** has 6 National Key Scenic Spots, 10 National Famous Historic and Cultural Cities (Jinan, Qufu, Qingdao, Liaocheng, Zoucheng, Linzi, Tai'an, Penglai, Qingzhou, Yantai ), 2 Chinese Famous Historic and Cultural Villages (Zhujiayu Village, Guanzhuang Township, Zhangqiu District, Jinan City, Dongzoxidao Village, Ningjin Street Office, Rongcheng City), 97 National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units (including the Great Wall of Qi and the Shandong section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal), 397 provincial-level cultural relics protection units.
Shandong world-class cultural heritage:
1. Taishan Mountain
Taishan Mountain, a cultural and natural double heritage (the world's first double heritage), was selected in December 1987. As the first of the Five Mountains, Mount Tai has rich humanistic and natural landscapes, and has always been a place of pilgrimage for ancient emperors, with 12 emperors coming here to perform Zen meditation. Mount Tai is a spiritual source for Chinese artists and scholars, and a symbol of ancient Chinese civilization and faith. Historically, there are many writers and writers came here, but also left "Mount Tai and small world" "will be when the top, a glimpse of the mountains" and many other ancient songs.
Tai Mountain is located in the central part of Tai'an City, Shandong Province, the main peak of the Jade Emperor Peak is 1545 meters above sea level, majestic, "the first of the five mountains", "the world's first mountain" of the name. In the traditional Han culture, Mount Tai has always had the reputation of "the only one of the five mountains". Since Qin Shi Huang Feng Zen Taishan, successive emperors have been in Taishan Feng Zen and sacrifices, and in Taishan up and down to build temples and molded gods, carved stone inscriptions. The scenery of Mount Tai is famous for its magnificence, the overlapping mountains, the heavy form, the pines and boulders, and the change of clouds and smoke, which makes it both beautiful and quiet in the majesty and magical in the quietness. The most famous is the "four wonders of Mount Tai". Mount Tai with its majestic scenery and rich culture, known as "the soul of China", was included in the world natural and cultural heritage; Mount Tai is now built to facilitate the up and down the ropeway cable car, a new heaven and earth plaza, excavation and restoration of the Mount Tai Zen performance, Dongyue Temple and other traditional folk activities.
2. Qufu Confucius Temple, Confucius Mansion, Confucius Forest
The Confucius Temple, Confucius Mansion, Confucius Forest, the World Heritage Site, selected in December 1994. It is a symbol of China's successive generations to commemorate Confucius and promote Confucianism, known for its rich cultural deposits, long history, grand scale, rich collection of cultural relics, as well as scientific and artistic value. Confucius is also honored as "Sage Confucius" and has a profound influence in the world.
The Confucius Mansion, Confucius Temple and Confucius Forest in Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The Confucius Temple is known as "the first temple in the world" for its "oldest and best-preserved building". The Confucius Palace, as the longest continuation of feudal society in China, has the most oriental architectural style of the official government offices and the residence of the two-in-one aristocratic manor, known as "the world's first family". The Confucius Grove is the world's largest, longest-lasting, best-preserved family tomb complex with the largest number of tombs.
3. Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal
In the eyes of Shandong harbor pilots and boat owners, the unobstructed flow of the Shandong section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is a fact to which people are accustomed. If there is no withering water or flood season flooding and other irresistible factors, the relationship between the people's lives and economic lifelines of the Lunan region of the golden waterway is always diligently peace of mind on duty, so that the incoming and outgoing thousands of tons of ships all the way to the smooth flow. As an important channel connecting Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other developed provinces and cities in Shandong, the Shandong section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is affectionately known as "Shandong's Rhine River" by the people of Shandong. Her prosperity and flourishing, cohesion along the river government and Shandong port and navigation people's efforts.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, a world cultural heritage, was selected in June 2014, flows through two municipalities, six provinces and 25 prefectures, with a total length of more than 2,700 kilometers, and reaches the Yellow River, the Huaihe River, the Yangtze River, the Qiantang River, and the Haihe River, which is the main artery of north-south transportation in ancient China, and also the earliest and largest canal in the world. Shandong mainly flows through Dezhou, Liaocheng, Tai'an, Jining and Zaozhuang five cities, known as "Shandong's Rhine River".''
4. The Great Wall of Qi - Tai'an Section
The Great Wall of Qi, which was built during the Spring and Autumn Period and completed during the Warring States Period, starts from the banks of the Yellow River in the west and reaches the seashore of the Yellow Sea in the east, winding its way through the thirteen counties of Shandong, and is more than 1,000 miles long. The Great Wall of Qi is one of the more protected remains of the Great Wall built by various countries during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. It was built in the rolling hills of the Taiyi Mountain Range, and although there are flat valleys along the route, the Great Wall is mostly mountainous, and the Great Wall was constructed on the basis of mountainous terrain. The Qi Great Wall of Tai'an City is located in the territory of Shanggang, Xiagang Township, Daiyue District, Tai'an City, and is one of the four oldest Great Walls in China. Its construction is magnificent, the scale is spectacular, cohesion of two thousand five hundred years ago, our country's working people hard work and wisdom, but also reflects the first hegemony of the Spring and Autumn Period and the seven warring states of the Oriental great country's strong and majestic style.
The Great Wall, the World Heritage Site, selected in December 1987, is the greatest architectural project in the history of human civilization, which was built more than 2,000 years ago in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the Qin Dynasty after the unification of China into the Great Wall. It was also built on a large scale during the Han and Ming dynasties. The magnitude of the project and the grandeur of the project are considered to be the miracle of the world. Strictly speaking, the Great Wall of Qi is only an extension of the Great Wall of World Heritage, and it is believed that it will be selected separately in the near future.
World Cultural Heritage: is an international convention initiated by the United Nations and implemented by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the purpose of preserving natural or cultural premises of outstanding universal value to mankind throughout the world. The World Heritage Site is the highest level of protection and transmission of culture, and the World Heritage Site belongs to the category of World Heritage.
World Heritage is divided into four categories: World Cultural Heritage, World Heritage of Cultural Landscapes, World Heritage of Cultural and Natural Heritage, and World Natural Heritage. Non-governmental organizations, such as the International Committee of Cultural Monuments and Historic Places (ICCMHP), participate in the selection, management, and protection of World Heritage sites as an associate organization of UNESCO.
In 1972, UNESCO adopted the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage in Paris, the headquarters of the World Cultural Heritage, and established the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, whose purpose is to promote cooperation among nations and peoples, and to make a positive contribution to the rational preservation and restoration of the heritage of the whole of mankind **** the same.
Since the People's Republic of China*** and the People's Republic of China joined the ranks of States Parties to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on December 12, 1985, as of July 17, 2016, there are 50 Chinese World Heritage properties*** approved for inclusion in the World Heritage List under UNESCO's examination and approval, among which there are 30 World Cultural Heritage properties and 5 World Heritage properties of cultural landscapes, 4 World Cultural and Natural Dual Heritage, and 11 World Natural Heritage, ranking second among the countries on the World Heritage List, after Italy, which has 51 World Heritage sites.
Source: Baidu Encyclopedia - World Heritage Sites