qufushiIntroduction:Qufu Introduction: Qufu, the ancient country of Lu Guoguo, later renamed Lu County, is now a county-level city in Shandong Province. In the southwest of Shandong Province, it is 135 kilometers north of the provincial capital of Jinan. It is connected to Lishui in the east, Luzhou in the west, Zoucheng in the south and Taishan in the north. The largest vertical separation from north and south is 35.8 kilometers, and the largest distance between east and west is 25 kilometers and 895.93 square kilometers. 639,200 people (2012). The name of "Qufu" was first seen in "Book of Rites". The Eastern Han Yingyi explained: "There is a shack in Lucheng, and the commander is seven or eight miles long, hence the name Qufu." Qufu has the famous "three holes": Confucius, Confucius Temple and Kong Lin are the hometowns of Confucius, the great thinker, educator and founder of Confucianism in ancient China. In 1982, Qufu was awarded the first batch of historical and cultural cities in China; in 1991, it was rated as 40 Chinese tourist destinations by the National Tourism Administration; in 1994, Confucius Temple, Confucius and Konglin were included in the World Cultural Heritage; in 1997, the National Tourism Administration added Qufu It was identified as one of China's 35 ace tourist cities; in December 1998, it was named the first batch of China's outstanding tourist cities; in 2004, it was rated as the advanced city of Chinese cultural relics; in 2007, Confucius Temple, Confucius and Konglin were rated as National AAAAA level tourist attraction.