"New China Poem." Taiji is the art of shadow boxing, a form of exercise practiced by Chinese, old and young, especially in the early morning. Qufu is "a small town / in Shandong Province, / home to Confucius / living, home / to Confucius dead." See my poem "Where Confucius Is." The teachings of Confucius (551?-479 B.C.) are known as the Analects.