Qufu allows visitors to experience the full customs of the Lu kingdom during the Spring and Autumn period.
The narrator shoots arrows then shows how corn was ground to make corn meal. There is also a demonstration on how people cooked followed with a Confucian lunch.
Confucius said meat had to be prepared a certain way and that diet must be balanced.
He was also firm about eating in silence.
It is said that Confucius taught his son under a Ginkgo tree, because he loved reading and pondering under one of the trees.
To the north of Qufu is the family cemetery where Confucius and his decendants are buried.
It is the oldest family cemetery in the world. The cemetery is 1.5 times the size of the ancient city of Qufu.
It is estimated that there are more than 100,000 grave mounds and over 3,600 cemetery tablets were constructed.
Confucius had a deep interest in paying respect to heaven and the ancestors.
The Spring and Autumn Period during the time of Confucius was chaotic, but it was during this turbulence that Confucianism slowly wove itself into the fabric of Chinese culture.
See Confucius with Chow Yun Fat or return to China’s Spring and Autumn Period – Part 2
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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