The Confucius Family Mansion (Kongfu), where the direct descendants of Confucius lived, is located to the east of the Confucius Temple. The Kong family was in control of the largest private rural estate in China. The first mansion was erected in 1038 during the Song dynasty, and during a rebuilding in 1377 directed by the first Ming dynasty Emperor, it was moved a short distance away from the Confucius Temple. In 1503, it was expanded into three rows of buildings with 560 rooms and - like the Confucius Temple - 9 courtyards. The Confucius Mansions are built on a north–south axis and those grouped by the south gate are the former administrative offices (taxes, edicts, rites, registration and examination halls). The Chongguang Gate leads to the Great Hall, two further halls and then the Neizhai Gate, which seals off the residential quarters (used for weddings, banquets and private functions). The Qiantang Chamber was where the duke lived and is interestingly laid out on two floors – rare for a hall this size. And the Five Strange objects are one of the main attractions of the Confucian Mansion: the strange couplet, the strange picture, the strange beast, the strange tree and the strange monument. Each of them has a particularly unusual feature about them.