Confucius Tomb, Qufu

located inside the Confucius Cemetery (Kong Lin 孔林) in Qufu County, Shandong Province.
Despite is a tourist place with lots of people visiting, it still keep the sacred feeling.
The Xiangdian hall is the place where the incense altar is placed when offering sacrifices to Confucius. Behind the hall, the tombstone of Confucius is placed, which were engraved with "Dacheng Zhisheng Wenxuan 大成至圣文宣王墓 (Lord's Tomb). In the East is the tomb of Kong Li, his son; before that, it is the tomb of Kong Ji (Zisi), his grandson.
The construction work of the cemetery started from the Song Dynasty and by the late 18th century the perimeter wall reached a length of 7.5 kilometers with an enclosing area of 3.6 square kilometers.
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Post by Luca WorldTraveler | Oct 14, 2022