Qīngdào

Qingdao here is a name of the Leizhou Peninsula, not the Shandong port. In the old Haikang county of Leizhou Prefecture, a coastal pass called Qingdao Ai and a Qingdao patrol office watched the western shore road, small posts of the kind that policed salt, fishing boats and the villages behind the beach. The prefecture seat at Leizhou lay not far to the northeast, a city of exile and ancestral cult: the Song chancellor Kou Zhun died there in 1023, Su Zhe was banished to it in 1097, and the thunder god was worshipped in the Lei temple. The farmers and fishers of the peninsula spoke the Lei dialect, a form of Min brought down the coast from Fujian.