This weekend (6/4/10) our teacher took us to Qufu , the hometown of Confucius. Qufu has many very old temples built in honor of Confucius and one area built in honor of Mengzi. We saw three of the main areas that honor Confucius: the temple kong miao, Cemetery of Confucius (Kong Lin), and Kong Family Mansion (Kong Fu). In these areas some of the buildings and structures were as old as 1,000 years old.

Above is a picture of one of the many stone tablets writer around 1,000 years ago. These tablets can still be read by Chinese people today. The written language has changed very little. Especially when compared to other languages around the world. The picture below is a close up of one of the tablets.