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Travel to the Confucius Family Graveyard, you can get to know the life story fo Confucius. Confucius Family Graveyard is the oldest man made forest and also the most extensive one in eastern China. Located in the graveyard are the tombs of Confucius and his descendants.It's also called Zhisheng Lin. It is not only a special graveyard for the clan of Confucius, but also it is a graveyard with largest area and lasted for the longest time in the world. The Zhisheng Lin Gate is the gate of the Confucian Graveyard, built in Yuan Dynasty, while the Zhisheng Lin was built in

Ming Dynasty. For thousands of years, trees are added continuously, now they are as many as over 30,000. As a result of accumulation of successive dynasties, now it becomes the largest artificial forest in China, in the forest there perch many various birds and little animals. The flowers and green trees attract a lot of people in Qufu to rest and stroll in it.The Confucian Graveyard coves an area of 2 square meters. As high as over 3 meters, the wall around it covers 5.6km and is 1 meter thick. Now there are more than 100,000 evergreen ancient trees of different kinds in

Confucian Graveyard and it is the largest artificial garden in China. Confucius was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese thought and life.His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. Here's some guide information in your travel of the Confucius Family Graveyard: Address: Qufu, Jining County, Shandong Province. Contact number: 0086-0537-4414789/4414002  Admission Fee:CNY30  Opening Hours: 07:30-16:30

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Is it an original Family Graveyard of Confucius?

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Yes, it is the original Graveyard of Confucius Family. The tombs of Confucius and his descendants are all located here.