Kong Lin of Kong Yuan Tso.

Kong Lin is a national key cultural relics protection unit, formerly known as Zhishenglin, and is the cemetery of Confucius and his family. After Confucius died, his disciples buried him in Surabaya in the north of Lucheng. At that time, it was still a "tomb, not a grave" (there was no high soil uplift). During the Qin and Han Dynasties, although tombs were built very high, there were few cemeteries and only a few forest guards. Later, with the improvement of Confucius' status, the scale of Kong Lin became larger and larger. Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty lived forever for three years (A.D. 157). Lu Hao repaired the tomb of Confucius Temple, built a sacred gate in front of the tomb, built a vegetarian village in the southeast, and swept several households in Wu primary school. At that time, Kong Lin was "only one hectare". It was not until the Southern and Northern Dynasties that 600 trees were planted. During Song Xuanhe's reign, stone utensils were built in front of Confucius' tomb.

In the second year of Yuan Wenzong to Shun (A.D. 133 1), Confucius specialized in forest walls and built forest gates. In the tenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1684), Kong Lin expanded to 3,000 mu. In the eighth year of Yong Zhengdi (A.D. 1730), Kong Lin was overhauled, and all kinds of gates and workshops were repaired at a cost of 25,300 yuan, and special personnel were assigned to guard them. According to statistics, since the Han Dynasty, Kong Lin has rebuilt and increased 13 times, planted trees 5 times and expanded forest land 3 times. The wall around Kong Lin is 7.25 kilometers long, more than 3 meters high and about 5 meters thick, with a total area of 2 square kilometers, which is much larger than Qufu City. As a family cemetery, Kong Lin has been buried continuously for more than 2000 years. Here, we can not only inspect the tombs in the Spring and Autumn Period, but also research the tombs in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and also study the political, economic and cultural development and the evolution of funeral customs in China. 196 1 year, the State Council was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. "The ancient tomb is thousands of years old, and the forest is cold in May." There are more than 654.38 million trees in Kong Lin. According to legend, after the death of Confucius, "disciples planted strange trees all around, so there were many different trees, and the Lu people were unknown from generation to generation." Today, some trees in Konglin still cannot be named by people. Among them, cypress, juniper, oak, elm, locust, kai, park, maple, poplar, willow, sandalwood, privet, five flavors, cherry blossoms and other trees are intertwined and flourishing; Hundreds of plants such as wild chrysanthemum, Pinellia ternata, Bupleurum chinense, Pseudostellaria heterophylla and Ganoderma lucidum also win glory according to the times. Kong Lin is a natural botanical garden.

"There is no way to see the broken monument in the deep tree." There are many stone tablets and stone tools in Konglin. In addition to a number of famous Han steles moved into the Confucius Temple, there are tombstones inscribed by famous calligraphers in Ming and Qing Dynasties such as Li Dongyang, Yan Song, Weng Fanggang, He and Kang Youwei. Therefore, Konglin can also be called a veritable forest of steles.