Línyì

Linyi lies on the northern Shandong plain east of Dezhou. Its county seat occupied this district by the Song and remained a local centre through the Ming and Qing. In 1591 the magistrate Liu Chengzhong commissioned the local scholar and calligrapher Xing Dong to compile the first county gazetteer. Xing also collected and copied admired works of calligraphy; inscriptions associated with his collection were cut in stone in 1592, preserving models for later students of the art.