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Confucius’s return
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Confucius gave lectures on the way he travelled around. After his journey in Zheng, he directly went to Jin. When he and his students arrived a village on Tianjing Guan (now is in Jin Miao Pu Town, Ze Zhou County in Shan Xi Province) to the coast side of Jin, there were kids building up a castle by stones and blocking their way.  One of the kids, named Xiang Tuo questioned Confucius that: “the cart should step aside in front of a castle, not the other way around”. Confucius thought although the kid is young but he was smart enough to be his teacher. So he took the kid as his teacher and asked his students to step their cart aside. When they arrived Tianjing Guan, there was a squirrel greeting and saluting in the middle of the road. Confucius returned and headed north when he found the young kid clever and animals polite. Later, people built up Confucius’s temple to offer sacrifice to the great man. Until now, there are tracking ruts of Confucius’s return with tablet and pavilion in memory of the story. Xing Yao Yi has changed into Cart-Blocked Village. Since then, Confucius’s return has been one of the top 4 places of interests in Jin City.

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