In this paper, the writer described the cordierite-bearing rock associations and its characteristics, the characteristics of the cordierites and its changes in the progressive metamorphism and retrograde metamorphism, as well as metamorphic mineral assemblages in the Laiyang region. Then the approximate P—T ranges for the formation of the three generations of the metamorphic mineral assemblages on the P—T diagram for metamorphic facies series were determined according to the mineral associations—the forming...