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Shandong people

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The people of Shandong province or Shandong people (simplified Chinese: 山东人; traditional Chinese: 山東人; pinyin: Shāndōng rén) refers to those who are native to Shandong province, the majority (99%) of whom are Han Chinese. They speak various forms of Mandarin dialects such as Jilu, Jiaoliao, and Zhongyuan. There is a small Shandong community in Singapore and Malaysia. Nine-tenths of the early overseas Chinese in Korea also came from Shandong.

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Scientists and mathematicians

  • Gan De - believed to be the first person in history known by name to compile a star catalogue.
  • Liu Hui - invented the Gaussian elimination method considered to be one of the two most greatest mathematicians in Ancient China.
  • Wang Zhen - one of the early innovators of the wooden movable type printing system.
  • Jiao Bingzhen - a noted astronomer and also a painter during the Qing Dynasty.
  • Fu Sinian - famous Chinese educator and linguist.
  • Ke Ting Sui - known for the Kê pendulum and Kê grain-boundary internal friction peak he invented.
  • Guo Yonghuai
  • Samuel C. C. Ting - Nobel laureate in physics.
  • Peng Shige
  • Zhan Tao

    • Philosophers

  • Confucius - considered to be the greatest Chinese philosopher, founder of Confucianism and contributed greatly to Chinese culture.
  • Mozi - founder of Mohism.
  • Disciples of Confucius - they helped to compile much of the teachings of the greatest Chinese philosopher and their teacher, Confucius, in the Annalects.
  • Mencius - the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself.
  • Zou Yan - best known as the representative thinker of the Yin and Yang School (or School of Naturalists) during the Hundred Schools of Thought era in Chinese philosophy.
  • Zheng Xuan
  • Linji Yixuan
  • Mou Zongsan

    • Religious figures

  • Qiu Chuji - Taoist priest who saved millions of Chinese lives from being killed by the Mongols by convincing Genghis Khan through his occupation as being his advisor.

    • Writers and Poets

  • Han Xizai
  • Mo Yan - Nobel laureate in literature.

    • References

    Shandong people Wikipedia
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