Confucious Temple

Confucius lived in Shandong province about 3 hour from Jinan City where Genei was found. While he was not highly regarded during his lifetime, his ideas were ahead of his time and promoted a deeper respect for individual worth and moral values. He never claimed to be anything more than a man, yet many people worshipped him as more. One very interesting thing about Confucius and our adoption is that because of him the abandonment rate in Shandong is very low. His teachings were that your children should be valued and that they should be raised by the family. The number of children adopted from Shandong is very low, in fact we were the first family from our agency to adopt from this province.