Tong'an Confucius Temple

Located on the West Bank of Dongxi in Tongan County, it was built in the Five Dynasties. The existing building is Dacheng hall rebuilt in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Today, the Confucius Temple has become a museum of Tong'an District, displaying more than 200 pieces of stone carvings and inscriptions collected from all over the county. They have different expressions, vivid shapes and exquisite workmanship, which make visitors marvel. They are called "terra cotta warriors and horses of Tong'an".

Tong'an Confucius Temple

Confucius Temple is a temple for commemorating and offering sacrifices to Confucius. After the Ming Dynasty, it did more county education, so it is also called Confucian temple.

Located on the West Bank of Dongxi River in Tong'an District of Xiamen City, Tong'an Confucius Temple was first built in the Five Dynasties and later destroyed. In 1767, the Dacheng hall was rebuilt, covering an area of 1050 square meters. It was rebuilt in 1987.

Tongan Confucius Temple was not only a place for offering sacrifices to Confucius, but also a classroom for students around. It is the County Museum, which displays the historical traces and cultural relics of Tongan local famous officials since the Western Han Dynasty.

Confucius Temple, the main building Dacheng hall for the double eaves Xieshan style, front porch after Xuan, Dougong cornice. On the south side of the hall is the ancestral hall of Zhu Xi, Su Song, a scientist of Song Dynasty, and Lin Xiyuan, a famous official of Neo Confucianism.

On the north side of the Confucius Temple are Xingxian Yucai square, panchi, Guanlan Pavilion and stone sculpture exhibition hall, which display more than 200 pieces of stone inscriptions collected locally, including Zhenmu beast of Tang Dynasty, general Shi of Song Dynasty, Shima of Ming Dynasty, shiwengzhong of Qing Dynasty and so on.

The origin of history

Tong'an Confucius Temple is located on the West Bank of Dongxi river. Tongan implemented County governance in the fourth year of Tang Changxing (933) after the Five Dynasties. Chen Hongji (a native of Jinmen, Quanzhou prefecture) was the first city magistrate to build the village in denglongfang. The current site was moved in the tenth year of Shaoxing (1140). The existing buildings were rebuilt in the 32nd year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Xi, a famous Neo Confucianist and educationist in the Southern Song Dynasty, was appointed as the master of Tong'an's books. He added Jing Shi Ge, Jiao Si Tang, Su Gong temple and Zhi Dao Zhai. In 1767, the Dacheng hall was rebuilt.

Mr. Hong of Tong'an cultural relics management office said: "there were Confucius temples as early as the Five Dynasties, but some of the buildings in the Five Dynasties were damaged due to the change of time. Later, they were rebuilt on the basis of the original site. What we see is the buildings in the Qianlong period.

Layout structure

Next to the Confucius Temple (south side), there are Su Gong Temple (commemorating Song Dynasty scientist Su Song) and Lin Gong Temple (commemorating Li Xue Ming Huan Lin Xiyuan). There are also some buildings around. Because of the time vector, some buildings gradually collapsed, some became primary school buildings, leaving the ancient city wall, Lin Gong temple, Su Gong temple and Dacheng hall. Dacheng hall was built during the reign of Emperor Qianlong (covering an area of 1050 square meters, it was rebuilt in 1987) It turned out to be the place where Confucius was worshipped and became the (Tong'an) Museum. In addition, there are Qingyun Pavilion (Guanlan Pavilion), Xingxian Yucai memorial archway, panchi, etc

The gate of Confucius Temple is 4.4 meters high, higher than that of Quanzhou government. The Dacheng hall, the main body of Confucius Temple, is of wood masonry structure, with double eaves, Xieshan style architecture, 15 purlins, front porch and back porch style, and crisscross brackets and cornices.

Although Dacheng hall has experienced many vicissitudes, it still gives people a feeling of light, elegant, quiet and solemn.

Display of stone carvings

Below the "Xingxian Yucai" archway are the half moon shaped release pool and Shiqu bridge, and on the north side is the stone sculpture exhibition hall.

The Tong'an museum is located in the Confucius Temple, covering an area of more than 6432 square meters and a construction area of more than 1400 square meters. It was planned to be built in 1986 and opened to the public in January 1990. It has a collection of more than 2000 cultural relics and specimens.

Tongan Museum has two exhibition halls and an open-air exhibition hall. The exhibition hall of Dacheng hall has three parts: Exhibition of important historical sites in Tong'an, exhibition of historical celebrities in Tong'an and exhibition of cultural relics in collection. The display of historical sites reflects important historical events and activities of important historical figures from the Neolithic Age to the new democratic revolution in ancient Tongan through pictures, words and cultural relics.

Miss Zhu, an announcer of Tongan Museum, said: "ancient Tongan was established in the third year of Taikang (282 AD) in the Western Jin Dynasty, with a history of more than 1700 years. (Shaoxing was built in the 15th year of the Southern Song Dynasty) why is Tong'an called "Silver City" because the city of Tong'an looks like a silver ingot. It is long from east to west and narrow from north to south Historically, Tong'an had jurisdiction over Jinmen and Xiamen islands, as well as parts of Jimei, Xinglin, Haicang, Xiang'an and Longhai. " Tong'an was under the jurisdiction of Xiamen in 1973. On November 20, 1996, Tong'an was removed from the county and divided into districts. It is the largest administrative district in Xiamen.

Experience

Here is a display of the Anti Japanese guns of the Ming Dynasty. Miss Zhu told a special story about two major events in the history of Tong'an. "During the transitional period of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Gu Tong'an once became a place of tug of war in Ming and Qing Dynasties. There were two major disasters. The first time was in the city. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the Qing army entered Fujian in a large scale. Zheng Chenggong took Xiamen and Jinmen as the anti Qing bases twice, and Tong'an became a battlefield. After seven days of fierce fighting, the city was conquered by the Qing army, with more than 50000 soldiers and civilians killed and injured.

The second time was to move the border. At that time, in order to cut off the contact between the coastal residents and Zheng Chenggong, the Qing government carried out a barbaric policy of moving the border. Many people were forced to cross the sea to Taiwan or Nanyang to make a living, especially a large number of Tong'an people were expelled and drifted to Taiwan for development. (they have made great contributions to the development and construction of Taiwan) during this period, there were three famous Tongan people: Chen Yonghua, Zheng Chenggong's military adviser, general Lin Hui, and Wang Shijie, a big businessman. " The population of Tong'an District is 540000, while there are more than 3 million compatriots living abroad and more than 2.5 million Taiwan compatriots of Tong'an nationality. Tong'an is closely related to overseas Chinese, Chinese and compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Related allusions

In introducing the activities of important historical figures in Tong'an, Miss Zhu said that Zhu Xi was an important figure in the history of Tong'an.

"Zhu Xi was born in Youxi County, Fujian Province. His first official term was in Tong'an, when he was only 23 years old. After five years as the chief of Tong'an, he left a lot of handwriting. He wrote the three words "Tong Min'an" and "Wengong academy" of Vatican. His handwriting was different in his early, middle and late years

In the part of the exhibition of Tongan historical celebrities, it shows the life and deeds of a group of local celebrities, such as Su Song, a great scientist in the Song Dynasty, Chen Huacheng, a national hero in the Qing Dynasty, and Chen Jiageng, a flag of Modern Overseas Chinese, and shows the great achievements of Tongan sages.

Miss Zhu said, "here are the top ten celebrities in Tong'an. Su Song, a great scientist in Song Dynasty, is the representative. Su Song, a native of Tong'an, was admitted as a Jinshi at the age of 22. He served as an official in Five Dynasties, from an official to a prime minister. He made two great contributions in his life: one was the invention of the "water transport instrument elephant platform", which was the earliest astronomical clock in the world and known as the "ancestor of clocks"; the other was the writing of a Book of Ben Cao Tu Jing. There are also Wu Ben, Lin Xiyuan, Cai Fuyi, Lin Junsheng, Wu Bida, Chen Huacheng, Wu Ruifu, and the well-known overseas Chinese leader Tan Kah kee More than 300 pieces of representative objects, including Tingxi celadon (also known as pearlescent porcelain) of the Song Dynasty, are selected for the display of cultural relics in the collection to show the aspects of historical life and the artistic creativity of the ancient and modern working people. Two Gallery exhibition hall, special exhibition.

Cultural Studies

At 9:00 a.m. on September 26, 2009, the first Confucius Culture Festival in Tong'an, Xiamen, which has attracted much attention, will be held ceremoniously at the Confucius Temple in Tong'an. According to reports, the event was co sponsored by the Tong'an District Party committee, the district government and Xiamen Daily. It was undertaken by the Publicity Department of the Tong'an District Party committee, the District Sports Bureau, Huayi media and Minnan Culture Research Association. It was exclusively co sponsored by Xiamen Gulong hot spring villa development Co., Ltd.

The ceremony aims to create an important cultural brand activity of "cross-strait sacrifice to Confucius" and solemnly commemorate the 2560 year anniversary of Confucius' birth, which is the first time in our city. According to the organizers, it is the 60th anniversary of the people's Republic of China, which gives this event more special significance. It is not only a pragmatic move of Tongan District to promote the cultural construction of "one district, one festival", but also a birthday gift for the people's Republic of China.

Activities of offering sacrifices to Confucius

According to reports, the first Confucius Cultural Festival lasts for one day, including the opening ceremony, Confucius worship ceremony, rite of passage and so on. With a variety of cultural supporting activities, such as Nanyin performance, calligraphy and painting brush meeting, guessing puzzles, throwing pots and archery, the public can participate in the interaction on the spot and feel their gratitude to the sages. What is expected is that during the activity, the organizers also specially designed and produced the antique copy, Confucius bamboo slips, mahogany penholder, cultural bookmarks, etc. with the theme of Confucius Culture Festival, which can be used as decorative items, put at home or carry with you, and have special commemorative significance. At the same time, with the activities of "Taiwan Strait" magazine to send creative materials, the public can consult and purchase in the creative exhibition area. In addition, a commemorative stamp album of Confucius will be published on the spot.

It is worth noting that the activity of "Gulong Yuyuan wishes students a golden list title" organized by Gulong hot spring villa development Co., Ltd. has provided 500 praying cards on which children can write down their names and wishes and hang them in the Confucius praying gallery. At the same time, with a history of more than 2500 years, the ceremony of memorial ceremony, the dance of Liuyi and other antique performances will be presented one by one at the folk ceremony of offering sacrifices to Confucius, which will satisfy the eyes of the general public.

According to the organizers, during the period of offering sacrifices to Confucius, Li Jifeng, head of Jinmen County, and his wife will also come to the scene to address the event and bring gifts from Jinmen compatriots to Tongan Confucius Temple. In addition, people from Tainan, Kinmen, Quanzhou, Shandong and other places will also come to Xiamen to participate in this grand folk sacrificial activity.

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