Shànsǔ

Shanfu is an ancient town on the southwestern Shandong plain. In the Spring and Autumn period, Confucius's disciples Mi Zijian and Wuma Shi governed here, remembered respectively for ruling to the sound of a lute and for working late into the night. The county was absorbed into Shanzhou in 1368. Its old streets later became famous for carved memorial arches; among them, the stone Hundred Lions Arch was erected in 1778 in honour of a local widow.