Brief information on Confucius Mansion  

The Confucius Mansion is located in Qufu, Shandong Province, its west is connected with the Confucian Temple.
The Confucius Mansion is also called ”Yansheng Master Mansion”. It is the living place of closely related descendants generation after generation. It is the largest popular mansion next to the imperial palaces of Ming and Qing Dynasty in China. No matter the construction layout or the collection of cultural relics all claim ”the first mansion in the world”.
The Confucius Mansion was built in the first year of Kaibao in Song Dynasty in 1038. It is a noble manor combined the typical government with inner house in Chinese feudal society. With an area of more than 240 mu, the Confucius Mansion has 463 halls, main rooms, buildings, lofts and so forth all kinds of constructions, divided into east, west and center three layouts.
The east are house temples, there are the Baoben Hall, the Peach Temple and etc. West is academy, it is the place that Confucius studied knowledge, poem and etiquette and created and sang poems with his descendants and treated guests, they are the Zhongshu Hall, the Anhuai Hall and south and north flower halls treated guests. Center is the main body of the Confucius Mansion.

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Hours:07:30--16:30
Location:Qufu, Shandong Province
Transportation:Bus: 1, 5
Prices:CNY32