Kong Family Mansion

The Kong Family Mansion was the chronicled living arrangement of the immediate relatives of Confucius in the City of Qufu, the main residence of Confucius in Shandong Province, China. The surviving structures for the most part date from the Ming and Qing administrations. From the manor, the family kept an eye on the Confucian locales in Qufu and furthermore administered the biggest private rustic home in China.

The Kong family was accountable for directing elaborate religious services on events, for example, plantings, harvests, regarding the dead, and birthday celebrations. Today, the house is a gallery and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Sanctuary and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu". The chateau is found quickly toward the east of the Temple of Confucius to which it had been some time ago associated.

The design of the manor is customarily Chinese and isolates official spaces in the style of a Yamen in the front of the complex from the private quarters in the back. Other than the yamen and the inward quarters, the complex additionally contains an eastern and a western report and also a back garden. The Back Garden otherwise called the Tieshan Garden was included amid the Ming-time extension of the chateau in 1503. The significant working at the northern end of the garden is the Flower Hall.