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The Temple, Cemetery, and Mansion of Confucius
In 479 BCE, China’s most famous thinker—Confucius (b. 551 BCE)—departed from this world forever. To remember this sage, later generations constructed shrines to revere him, and from among all those shrines, the one in Qufu, Shandong province is considered the biggest and the oldest.
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孔府因何被稱為「天下第一家」?
位於孔廟之西的孔府,是孔子後代嫡長子孫世襲居住的府第。孔子後裔被封為「衍聖公」,因此孔府又稱「衍聖公府」。「衍聖公」在古代社會是享有特權的大貴族,被稱為「天下第一家」。