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Article: Peking enlists moral support of Confucius
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 14, 1996
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The 83 tourists on a works outing from the Xinyan
Transportation Management Bureau had their cameras at the ready as
they approached Confucius's tomb. The hallowed spot was not much to
look at, a grassy mound with a solid tombstone in front. But for
many of the million Chinese visitors a year who journey to this
forest graveyard, the site is a compulsory photo-opportunity at the
end of a hot day's tramping around Qufu, birthplace (some time
around 551BC) and final resting place of China's greatest sage.
Guo Paiyuan was typically reverential: "Confucius's philosophy
was rather advanced at that time. He stressed justice, honesty,
fidelity. He is the source of our Chinese culture." Mr Gao had ...