Shāndōng de fēngjǐng liáokuò, shīrén cái xiě chū Qí Lǔ qīng wèi liǎo zhèyàng de jùzi.
Shandong's landscape is so vast that only then could the poet write 'Qi-Lu green without end.'
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history
From Du Fu's (杜甫, Tang dynasty) 《望岳》: 岱宗夫如何？齐鲁青未了。造化钟神秀，阴阳割昏晓 — 'Mount Tai (Daizong) — what is it like? Across Qi and Lu the green is without end. Creation has poured its divine marvels into it; shade and sun divide its dusk and dawn.' Du Fu's youthful ode to Mount Tai, looking at the mountain from the plains of ancient Qi (齐, north of Tai) and Lu (鲁, south of Tai).
culture
齐鲁 (Qí Lǔ) are the two Zhou-dynasty states that covered modern Shandong — Qi in the north, Lu (Confucius's home) in the south. To this day Shandong is nicknamed 齐鲁大地 ('the land of Qi and Lu'). 未了 means 'not yet ended.'
