Qufu Vacations, Qufu Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Juliana (Russia) As seems the case in so many Chinese towns and cities, our bus from Tai’an dropped us right on the outskirts of Qufu. The prospect of a 45 minute walk with our backpacks left us with little option but to be ripped off by a motorized rickshaw, for the 5 minute ride into town. The female rickshaw driver then insisted the hotel she left us at was the one from our book, which clearly it wasn’t. We looked elsewhere a...

Between Heze and Jinan, we visited a major destination on our culture and civilization trip, Qufu. Qufu is the hometown of Confucious. We visited the 3 places related to him, the temple, the house where his decendents lived, and the family cemetery (along with ten thousand other  tourists, it seemed) The Confucious Temple was where many emporers over the past two thousand years have come to pay their respect to Confucious, so there were many steles commemorating these events. Many of th...

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Confucius was not only a very wise man but also a rich man or at least he made his family one of the most influential and richest in the whole of China. The riches of the Kong family can be best seen by walking through the Kong mansions, this is like a minature forbidden city. They could build their own "forbidden city" as they were free of taxes or any other levies even today the influence of the Kong family is beyond imagination. They could block a proposed railway station in Qufu as it wou...