Jiantan

Miao meow meeeooowww! I am sure that Great aunt Yumei will never look at a temple (miao) in the same way again! Whenever we would start talking about the next stop, Kong Miao (a Confucius temple), Davy and Meg would break out in a meowling song! Everyone had a good laugh at the newfound cats in the back seat and eventually we got the kids to understand that enough was enough!

Kong miao was actually really cool - the kids raced around looking for the stamps to complete their collections (a great, fun diversion to keep kids amused at museums and similar cultural/ educational sites - very popular in Asia) and since the stamps were about the six arts to be mastered per Confucius’ teachings for being a well-rounded person, they might actually have learned something useful:
* Reason, rites, manners
* Music
* Art, calligraphy
* Mathematics
* Sport, archery
* Charioteering - arguably less useful in the modern world

Unfortunately, we visited the temple rather late that day and the exhibits were closing just as we got to the sixth stamping station. So we had to trouble Uncle Gu to take us back the next day to get the last stamps - what a trooper!Read more