1986: The name "Qingzhou" is recovered from "Yidu".
1996: The discovery of over 200 buried Buddhist statues at Qingzhou was hailed as a major archaeological find. The statues included early examples of painted figures, and are thought to have been buried due to Emperor Huizong's Song Dynasty repression of Buddhism (he favoured TaoismFor other uses of the words "tao" and "dao", see Tao (disambiguation) and Dao (disambiguation). Taoism or Daoism is usually described as an Asian philosophy and religion, although it is also said to be neither but rather an aspect of Chinese wisdom. The T).
