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Extract from the Qufu Travel Guides:
QUFU
, a dusty rural town in the south of Shandong, easily accessible by bus or train from Tai'an, 100km north, and Ji'nan, 180km away, is quiet and pretty with an agreeably sluggish feel, but of great historical and cultural importance.
Confucius
was born here around 551 BC, taught here - largely unappreciated - for much of his life, and was buried just outside the town, in what became a sacred burial ground for his clan, the Kong. All around the town, despite a flurry of destructive zeal during the Cultural Revolution, is architectural evidence of the esteem in which he was held by successive dynasties and most monumental...
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