The county of Qufu 曲阜 in Shandong is revered as the ancient home of Confucius and site of his tomb and the central shrine where he has been venerated from the pre-Qin period to the present. The journey of Yang Huan 楊奐 (1186-1255) to Qufu in 1251, recorded in Yang’s “Journey to the East” (Dongyou ji 東遊記), demonstrates that Qufu already served as a…[Read more]