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By ned210
September 4th 2008

Shandong

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Dai Miao

Thursday, August 22, we left for our class bonding trip in China's Shandong Province. It's a six hour bus ride from Nanjing. We arrived to Tai'an city on Thursday. On Friday we visited Dai Miao, the temple of the god of Mount Tai. After lunch we climbed Mount Tai (泰山: Tài Shān) It was a hard walk up the steps but beautiful at the top. On Saturday we woke up at 5AM to watch the sunrise at the top of the moutain which was beautiful but crowded (as is everything in China). Then we moved onto Qufu, another city in the [View Full Entry]

By ShellandTurk
July 17th 2008

Confucius' village

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Qufu is famous for being the birthplace to the famous Chinese philosopher Confucius. It also houses the tomb of Confucius and as a result, plans to build a train station in the small town were scrapped on the basis that trains would disturb his tomb. Let me start with a bit of an introduction to Confucianism. Whilst Confucianism is not really a religion and more a philosophy, he is described and held in a similar kind of regard to the more religious figures. His philosophy in a nut shell describes the role of individuals within a larger group and guidelines on [View Full Entry]

By Amicu
November 3rd 2007

Qufu

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Confucius family mansion
A shot of the Confucius mansion were the family of Confucius lived for more then 2500 years. The Building is Qing Dynasty

Qufu- November 4th This weekend we went to Qufu, the birthplace of Confucius. Today it’s a wonderfully dilapidated mansion in the flat, flat plains of the Chinese countryside. We travelled south for about an hour in a very plush modern bus to get to Qufu and were dropped off by a run of shops on a rural road. This bus did not go into the town of Qufu so we had to get a taxi the rest of the way past herds of meandering goats. Once in the main town larger modern buildings sprang up as well as a very large [View Full Entry]

By mattylee
August 28th 2007

Hello Confucius

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Hall of Shrines

Confucius Says. . . Not Much at All These Days Kong Fu Zi, the venerable Master Kong (Confucius is the Anglicised version of his name) , was born in the year 551 BC in the town of Qufu. He was an educated man who worked up from his lowly status (he wasn’t from a rich family by any measure) to very high official positions within the government of the time. He was renowned for being honest, hardworking, a model member of society and an excellent teacher. When he died he was very respected by his students but he was by no [View Full Entry]

By China 2006 2007
May 7th 2007

Qufu - Praktische informatie

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Vervoer: Er ging slechts 1 bus per dag rechtstreeks van Qingzhou naar Qufu. Hij vertrok om 7u20, deed er 4uur30 over en kostte 49Y. Hij reed via Zibo, Laiwu en Tai'an, en kwam toe in het enige lange afstands busstation van Qufu. In Boshan kruisten we een bergketen waarop een van de oudste stukjes muur zou moeten liggen, namelijk de Qi Muur die dateert van 685 voor Chr en lag tussen het Rijk van Qi en dat van Chu. We gingen een kijkje nemen in het Xiuxian Binguan dat in Lonely Planet vermeld wordt, maar de kamers met badkamer waren er [View Full Entry]

By China 2006 2007
May 6th 2007

Naar Qufu.

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Een piramide die we eigenlijk groter hadden verwacht.

Zondag 6 mei. Inpakken was vanochtend niet gemakkelijk omdat we veel bagage hadden door het pak dat we vanuit België hadden laten opsturen. We waren wel van plan om over enkele dagen, na het beklimmen van de Taishan, een pak naar België te sturen met de dikke kleren en de vlieger die we hadden gekregen. Om 6u40 kwamen we aan bij het busstation waar de bus naar Qufu al bijna vol zat. We hadden onze kaartjes gisteren al gekocht dus we waren zeker van een zitplaats. De vraag was of er voldoende benenruimte zou zijn. Wijzer geworden door vroegere ervaring [View Full Entry]

Berna op weg naar het graf van Shao Hao.

Hier moet je niet zoeken: Wim heeft een stele gevonden.

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