*This is not Confucious, but perhaps "Confusing" Who is it really? (Click on pictures for close up)
On Saturday, October 18, we left at 9:00 am by bus to tour the city of QuFu ) (Pronounced "Chew Foo") where the great and famous Chinese Philosopher, Confucious was born and where he lived and died. It is now a tourist destination and a real fun place for little kids, groups of school kids and even old english teachers to visit and enjoy.
There were lost of trinkets and souveniers to buy and we did a little shopping, but we mostly walked for a few hours in our effort to keep up with the tour guide with the microphone. There were lots of confucious momentos.
Jay thought he should do a little clean up work and found a broom and got to work. With so many people, things get unkempt quite quickly.
This is our Waiban, Mary, she is the one who got this all expenses paid trip together for us. She is nice and she is cool. Notice the little animals on the tops of the temples to scare away the evil spirits and also to make it harder for them to alight on the temple roofs. They are kind of like temple guards.
School kids were everywhere and they always called out to us: "HELLO!" We would always talk to them. They love that.
I go to play an old Chinese King. It was pretty cool to be a king if only for a short time.
Interesting that stone tablets were a way of communicating in the old dynasty days...
These big rocks are said to be meteorites that fell from the sky and were brought to this location for show and tell, according to our guide.
The cemetary of Confucious' family. It is very large and all the graves are large mounds of dirt with grass growing on them... This last one is of his gravestone in front of his burial mound.
These big rocks are said to be meteorites that fell from the sky and were brought to this location for show and tell, according to our guide.
I saw a wheelchair trike today
and I gave him a couple of bucks
to take his photo. He was fine with that...
and another angelic, blind, chinese
fiddle player also got all my change
after he played so sweetly for us. Notice there is only one string on his chinese fiddle.
The cemetary of Confucious' family. It is very large and all the graves are large mounds of dirt with grass growing on them... This last one is of his gravestone in front of his burial mound.
3 comments:
Wow, what a fun trip. The pictures are amazing. Dad you make a great king. I loved the outfit, can you buy one and bring it home to put in the homestead costume trunk?
Those were great pictures! A very fun read.
Dennis and I are happy to see China through your eyes....good enough for us:) Glad things are going well for you! We enjoy peeking into your lives:)
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