The Cemetery of Confucius in Qufu is the graveyard of Confucius and his descendants. Currently the cemetery covers an area of 200 plus ha, and houses 100,000 plus tombs. Its enclosing wall is 8 km long. It is the largest and oldest family cemetery in the world. Similar to the case of the Temple of Confucius, the expansion of the Cemetery of Confucius to today’s size is because of the reverence for Confucius and Confucianism in the past dynasties. In the Western Han Dynasty, when Confucius had passed away 300 plus years earlier, the Cemetery of Confucius covered an area of less than 6.67 ha, and around the cemetery lived the descendents of Confucius’ disciples who had lived near Confucius’ tomb, which followed his instruction that in the ceremonies of mourning, it is better to be sparing and that there be deep sorrow, and had no ancestral hall or other buildings. The shendao (“soul path”) of the Cemetery of Confucius was built in the Song Dynasty. In 1123, the 5^th year of the Xuanhe reign of the Song Dynasty, stone statues were added to the cemetery, and a tomb passage appeared. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the cemetery was unprecedentedly expanded, becoming a grand cemetery as seen today.