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Photograph by Richard M. Vanderburgh 



THE GROVE SURROUNDING THE CONEUCIUS TOMB IN KUFU 



The buildings of the temple at the birthplace of the wisest of China's wise men stand in a 



park of splendid cypress trees. 



times wrongly called "The Temple of 

 Heaven." 



On either side and facing the center 

 of the room are the images of sixteen of 

 the Sage's most famous disciples, all 

 canopied, and in receding rows of two, 

 three, and three, eight on a side. 



One large room of the temple contains 

 a very complete collection of ancient 

 musical instruments. 



The terrace on which the main build- 

 ing stands is flanked by two long rows of 

 lower buildings, in which are tablets to 

 Confucius' principal disciples and ex- 

 pounders. To the rear of the main build- 

 ing are also smaller buildings, one of 

 which contains some 120 stone tablets, 

 about 12 by 17 inches, cut, to represent 

 scenes from the life of the Sage. 



A SHRINE TO CONEUCIUS' WlEE 



The building which is of chief interest 

 among the auxiliary shrines contains the 

 tablet to the wife of Confucius. This 

 simple and sole memorial to the Sage's 

 spouse is housed in a "Palace of Rest" in 

 the midst of beautiful trees. Whenever 



ofTerings are placed on the altar before 

 the statue of Confucius, so are they also 

 before this tablet to his wife, only they 

 are less elaborate. 



The temple grounds are separated from 

 the rest of the town by the street that 

 marks the site of the ancient village in 

 which Confucius was born, the actual 

 site of the house itself being marked by 

 the Duke's Palace, for there is still a 

 duke in Lu, the Holy Duke K'ung, the 

 seventy-sixth lineal descendant of the 

 Sage. 



Four times a year the Duke worships 

 in this temple with the appropriate ritual. 

 Besides the contributions from devotees 

 and appropriations from Peking, estates 

 of many acres are devoted to the sup- 

 port of the temple and the supply of the 

 great number of pigs, sheep, and cattle 

 required for the sacrifices, for no sym- 

 bolism of cheap paper images as substi- 

 tutes for the real article, so common else- 

 where in China, is allowed here. 



The Duke is also in charge of the up- 

 keep of the great Confucian cemetery, 

 which lies outside the city, and having 



