Qufu
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 曲阜 (Qūfù).
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Qufu
- A county-level city in Jining, Shandong, China.
- , volume IX, number 273, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 69, column 1:
- (4) Ting Pao-cheng, lieut.-governor of Shantung, reports having sacrificed to the Tai Shan (泰山), inspected the Confucian Temple at Chüfow (the native place of Confucius), which has just undergone a thorough repair, and examined the dykes erected to protect the low lands, in the neighbourhood of Yuncheng, from the inundations of the Yellow River.]
- , New York: Crown Publishers, →OCLC, page 125:
- The most notable example of engraved dragons is on the stone columns of the Temple to Confucius at his birthplace in Chüfu. These are also found in the "cloud pillars" (single stone columns—huapiao in Chinese) outside the Tienanmen, while those at the Ming Tombs are still finer.]
- 1997 October 10, Seth Faison, “Qufu Journal; Not Equal to Confucius, but Friends to His Memory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World:
- As the birth and burial place of Confucius, the sage and spiritual father of Chinese culture, Qufu (pronounced CHOO-foo) has survived the ages as a shrine.
- 2010 May 14, Andrew Higgins, “In today's China, it's Confucius 2.0”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 22, 2024:
- QUFU, CHINA -- Zhong Yong, a wealthy metals trader from the far west of China, recently took a long weekend off work, boarded a four-hour flight across the country and then drove for two hours. His mission: to dress up in a long black robe with crimson trim and tap his head on the ground in front of a wooden statue of Confucius. […]
Ning and Zhong belong to the first batch of 50 students enrolled in the Three Wisdoms Business School, an intensive program in Chinese culture started last year by professors in Beijing. In Qufu, they were tutored by Duan Yanping, a technician at the local electricity company and one of the town's most zealous Confucians. He instructed them on how to bow properly, explained ancient rites and presided over worship at the Confucius Temple.
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- Qufu, Ch'ü-fu, Ch'u-fu, Chu-fu, Chufu, Chufou, Kufow at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qufu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2554, column 3