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Monazite is an important accessory mineral in the pelitic granulites (Weihai area, Sulu orogen), and is also a powerful monitor for understanding the metamorphic evolution of the granulites. The pelitic granulites incongruously occur as lenses in granitic gneisses. The lithologies of the lenses gradually change from core to margin: The undeformed coarse-grained granulite, the foliated fine-grained granulite, the garnet-biotite-gneiss, and the migmatized granulite. The lens cores mostly preserve a peak granulite-facies metamorphic mineral assemblage of garnet + plagioclase (antiperthite) + quartz + sillimanite + biotite with accessory minerals of rutile, zircon, and monazite. The lens margins display a fluid-induced retrogression. In order to decipher the metamorphic processes of the pelitic granulites, a combined study of BSE imaging, U-Pb dating, and trace element composition for the monazites from the metapelitic lens were conducted. Monazites from the undeformed coarse-grained granulite only record a Paleoproterozoic age (1832±7 Ma,
n
=40). Monazites from the other lithologies yield the inherited Paleoproterozoic age and Triassic overgrowth age. For example, monazites from the migmatite yield intercept ages of 1818±10 and 211±22 Ma (
n
=56) with Triassic concordant age of 223.8±2.9 Ma. The Paleoproterozoic monazites are characterized by remarkable depletion in HREE and Y with obviously negative Eu anomalies, indicating their formation equilibrated with garnet and feldspar under granulite-facies conditions. During Triassic fluid modification, the monazite bright rims assimilated Th and Si but released U, HREE, Y, and P. This process resulted in that the Triassic overgrowth monazites have higher HREE and Y contents, and lower Th and U contents with relatively low Th/U ratios. Thus, the monazites in the pelitic granulites recorded a Paleoproterozoic metamorphic event and Triassic fluid modification. The Weihai pelitic granulites might have a tectonic affinity with the North China Craton. Therefore, the Paleoproterozoic pelitic granulites were mechanically drawn into the orogen during the Triassic continental collision, and subsequently were remoulded by the fluids during its exhumation.