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Qufu is an ancient city of China, famous for being the Confucio homeland. Since Confucio is already known he was the founder of the most important philosophical school of China.
His doctrines, which they were preaching in addition to the need to govern with the example, the expediency of supporting the proper relations between the leaders and governed, sanctifying a society with big inequality between the different social classes, it was promoted by the emperors, whom so much he was benefiting, going so far as to turn into a cult or a religion, as they were called by the first Europeans who came to China.
If Confucio was practically deified, constructing him numerous temples in his honor, there being created a body of attorneys dedicated to keeping his writing intact and there being sanctified his texts used in the imperial examinations, his progeny received also a high status. Status, prestige and power that removed from the mesenteries of the political power, it supported many other centuries than no imperial family, accumulating grounds and wealths without comparison in China.
An important part of the city of Qufu, there are the ancient dependencies on this powerful family and on some of his most important disciples. Face and an obsession has a preserved urban center, a few calm streets, an entry to the tourist places especially in the local restaurants to make you prove the "meal of Confucio".
Three principal monuments have been declared a Patrimony of the Humanity by the UNESCO
Temple of Confucio
The most important Qufu monument. A magnificent temple constructed in memory of the familiar ancestors, which was extended along generations up to turning into one of the most original monuments of China. The columns of his principal room, with the dragons recorded in stone, are a marvel, and even the proper lounge, and the side corridors with his numerous templitos in honor of all the progeny of the clan. A place to see slowly, to cover it repeatedly being fixed in the details that turn out to be always new.
The Confucio mansion
He has suffered the merciless aggression of the municipal authorities, which not only have divided it arbitrarily in order to be able to receive two earnings, but they have turned his interior into an enormous flea market leaving the visit relegated to a few rooms. Better not to see it.
Forest of Confucio
It is an enormous cemetery that occupies 300 hectares, in that there is thousands of graves, three thousand funeral stelas and a similar number of centenary trees. Also there are more than 300 arches. To see it well it is necessary to have time, since the extension is enormous, and the interest points are quite dispersed.
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