zibo china Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/zibo-china Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:19:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Zibo Map http://travelsfinders.com/zibo-map.html http://travelsfinders.com/zibo-map.html#respond Sun, 05 Feb 2017 04:58:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=231628 Province: Shandong Area: 3436sq.km/1327sq. miles. Population: 2,700,000 Zibo lies in the centre of Shandong province, at 118°03’E and 36°45’N. There are trains and buses from Jinan, which is 100km/62 miles away. From the 8th c. b.c. onwards Zibo was the capital ofthe Qi empire for 630 years. It also became well-known for its traditional ceramics and lacquered works of art. Green glass was first developed in Zibo some 1500 years ago. Under the Tang (618-907) black glazed porcelain from Zibo was a “best seller”. In the Song period (960-1279) the local makers of China invented a new technique – they

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