FamoustemplesinAsia - Jining

Only a twenty-minute drive away from Qufu, it’s an absolute gem with its graceful halls and pavilions and ancient juniper and cypress trees standing amid its peaceful courtyards. If there is indeed a place to celebrate the innate goodness of the human spirit, then this it! http://brownbeat.net/2016/12/temple-mencius-meng-family-mansion/

The temple, cemetery and family mansion of Confucius, the great philosopher, politician and educator of the 6thñ5th centuries B.C., are located at Qufu, in Shandong Province. Built to commemorate him in 478 B.C., the temple has been destroyed and reconstructed over the centuries; today it comprises more than 100 buildings. http://www.cnto.org/unesco-sites/temple-cemetery-confucius-kong-family-mansion-qufu/