We had the guy we hired in Poland in China to learn about things for a week and after a few days we went to Wuhu for a day. We went to the plant.
When you go to Wuhu you fly to Nanjing so the next morning we were up early so we could get him to the airport an hour away so he could catch his 8:30 flight. Our flight back to Zhuhai was not until 4 so we looked for something to do so we settled on the Confucius Temple. The place where all students went to take the big 9 day test. This was standard procedure for hundreds of years in China. The test that determined what they would do in life. So we got on the modern clean train into the city for a half hour ride.
It was on this train that I learned that there is an international symbol for NO Spitting.
Just look at the size of that hocker. It sure makes you wonder what the international symbol for no pooping looks like. It also makes you wonder why you need a no spitting sign on a modern train.
We got to the place and wondered around the neighboring streets and finally got to the temple. Actually most of it was destroyed by the Japanese in WWII (the big one) as Nanjing was the capital of China at that time.
There were little test taking cubical s, statue guys standing around along with a dragon on the wall by the river.
Finally it was time for some world class posing with the Confucius guy.
So as I contemplate the statue of this 2500 year old guy and wonder why I couldn’t find any of his famous quotes like, not peeing into the wind and going to Bangkok, although I did find one that I think translated ” Confucius say: Man who keep feet firmly on ground have trouble putting on pants! “, I recognize that he did have some really good sayings.
Then onto the train and on to home.