Zōupíng

Zouping is an old county of the Shandong plain, north of the Changbai Mountains. Its local traditions recall the scholar Fu Sheng, who preserved the Book of Documents after the burning of books under the Qin, and the Song statesman Fan Zhongyan, who studied at Liquan Temple in the mountains. Under the Ming and Qing the county belonged to Jinan prefecture. Its gazetteers preserved accounts of the district's landscape, historic sites and learned men.