Qufu

See also: Qūfù, qūfú, and qūfù

English

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 曲阜 (Qūfù).

Qufu

A county-level city in Jining, Shandong, China.
- [1872 July 27, “Abstract of Peking Gazettes”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎, volume IX, number 273, Shanghai, OCLC 311405954, 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.]
- [1961, Lin, Yutang, “Studies in Form: Temples, Pagodas and the Plastic Arts”, in Imperial Peking: Seven Centuries of China‎, New York: Crown Publishers, OCLC 600962962, 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.]

city in Shandong