Confucius Museum

A row of gates and pavilions, and twenty-five stone turtles (bixi) holding tablets on which numerous emperors expressed their respect to the sage, in Chinese, Manchu, and Mongol (written in Phags-Pa script)

The principal hall of the temple. It was built as a five-bay structure during the Yuan Dynasty, and rebuilt in 1507 into its current form, a seven-bay-wide hall with a double-eaved roof.

A temple dedicated to the Duke of Zhou (Ji Dan), a revered statesman and thinker of the early Western Zhou Dynasty. The Qufu Zhougong Temple is one of the three most notable such temples in China, alongside those in Luoyang and Baoji.

The main ceremonial archway at the southern entrance to the cemetery was built in 1424. This four-pillar, three-bay wooden archway with a green glazed tile roof retains distinct early Ming architectural features and marks the symbolic entrance to the sacred forest.

A stone structure, 22.71 meters long and 7.96 meters wide, rebuilt and reinforced during the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty. This archway is a six-pillar, five-bay, five-story structure with a hip roof. The roof is decorated with carved tiles and ridge beasts, and the eaves are adorned with carved brackets. The lintel, pillars, and decorative panels are covered with exquisite carvings, with deep relief on the pillars and archway and shallow relief on the decorative panels.

Located north of the Zhishenglin Archway, this castle-like gate is also known as the "Viewing Tower". It stands on the site of the north gate of the ancient Lu city, with its current form dating to a 1494 reconstruction.