In China's Shandong Province, Qufu is a small, rural Chinese town with an ancestral temple, a family cemetery, and the mansion of a family clan that did well in Chinese history - the Kong clan. On the face of it, that makes the town noteworthy only in how usual it is.
But Qufu is different. Because the family in Qufu is the Kong family. And their ancestral temple is to Master Kong. Kong Fu Zi, in Chinese. And that name, along with the title, became anglicized as "Confucius." Qufu was the home town of Confucius.
The town of Qufu has three basic attractions: the Temple (built around the house that Confucius grew up in), the "Forest" (the Kong family cemetery where over 100,000 of Confucius' descendants have been buried in the last 2500 years), and the Ming-era mansion compound where the descendants of Confucius lived a nobility.
Sights Pictrue 
Comment
