Mingya Xingtan Hotel Qufu
No.36 Datong Road Qufu, Shandong, China
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Confucius and friends
... it has the family home of Mencius, a temple devoted to him and also his tomb - and many other tombs. I really enjoyed this place and I had most sights to myself as it's sort of the smaller baby sibling, lesser known version of Confucius' hometown Qufu and doesn't seem to be on that many tourist's itineraries. I also visited a tomb of a Prince and his lover from the Ming Dynasty which was exactly my cup of Chinese tea.
I hired ...
Qufu
... the tour bus went by too fast for good pictures and pictures from this area are lacking. However, you honestly didn’t miss much. The tombs were just big earthen mounds that looked like big dirt piles… Some of the tombs had statues around them but there weren’t many like that. By the time were done at the memorial it was time to turn in for dinner which consisted of yet another huge meal and ...
A very long train journey, a hotel & Pizza hut!
... you haven't properly left yet! Totally mental.
We were met and taken to a hotel!!! 2 to a room complete with en-suite (which was a wet room with a sign saying “slip carefully”) and western toilet AND loo roll!!!!!
Everyone was so happy after our long and mental train jounery. We all met up for dinner and thank's to Vince's iPhone found a Pizza Hut for dinner – the day just got better! We even managed to all eat at the same time (albeit ...
Confucius Said.....
... three. It was so peaceful in the woods away from the usual hustle and bustle that is China, and the tombs were all so interesting. We decided not to take a bus tour, so we got to walk down paths and see the tombs up close.
The temple was hai hao (还好: just okay), but the school was much cooler in my opinion. I say this because the school was added on to throughout different dynasties, and it turns out that it ...
All things Confucius
... the Chinese Communist Party has been making an effort to use Confucian traditions to boost nationalism and respect for Chinese culture internationally. In this line of thought, a statue of Confucius was erected by Tiananmen Square, and was just visible from the Chairman’s final resting place. However, one night about a month ago it just disappeared. It was in the China Daily but no one, not even the janitors in the museum that the statue was in front of, knew what ...


