ByDong Quanyue, Qingdao Vocational and Technical College of Hotel Management

Qufu is located in the southeast of Shandong province and it’s historical city  where Confucius was born. There’re  Confucius mansion, Confucius temple and Confucius cemetery which enjoy a worldwide fame as a traditional Chinese cultural site. And they attract numerous tourists from both home and abroad annually. In 1994, they were listed as world cultural heritage sites.

Confucius Mansion is the living quarters of the first grandson of Confucius, a great philosopher, educator and a founder of Confucianism. It is also known as master Yansheng's mansion because in 1055, or the second year of the reign of song emperor Zhaozhen, Kong Zongyuan, the 46th generation male descendant of Confucius was given the title master Yansheng. The title was passed down to Kong Decheng, the 77th generation male descendant of Confucius.

With an area of 160,000 square meters, the mansion has nine courtyards with 463 rooms along the east, west and middle routes. The main part of the mansion centers the houses along the middle route. The first four yards contain offices and the other five serve as residences. At the rear it is a garden. The mansion stores more than 9,000 volumes of files from 1534 (the 13th year of the reign of Ming emperor Jiaqing) to 1948 and great quantities of rare and precious cultural and historical relics.

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