Linyi Confucius Temple

Linyi Confucius Temple

Linyi Confucian Temple (Linyi Confucian Temple), also known as "Linyi Confucian Temple", is located in Lanshan street, Linyi City, Shandong Province. It was first built in the Jin Dynasty. It was rebuilt and added in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In 1998, Linyi Municipal government completed the restoration project as the old Museum of Linyi city.

Linyi Confucius Temple is a group of ancient buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The whole building is rectangular, 155 meters long from north to south, 45 meters wide from east to west, with a total area of 6975 square meters. From south to north along the central axis, there are the front gate, two verandahs, stele Gallery, Dacheng hall and Minglun hall, in which there are statues of Confucius, Sipei and twelve philosophers.

The cultural, historical, artistic and scientific values of the cultural relics in Linyi Confucius Temple provide a lot of material materials for the study of ancient Chinese politics, economy, military and culture.

Architectural background

Linyi Confucius Temple, also known as the Confucian temple, is the place where Confucius was worshipped in the past dynasties. In the old days, it was the seat of the state school and the government school. Confucius was an outstanding thinker, statesman and educator in ancient China. He founded Confucianism, which became the mainstream of traditional Chinese culture and the orthodox of ancient Chinese thought and culture. Confucius was also granted the titles of "supreme sage of Dacheng", "model of all ages", and even "king of culture and propaganda". Under the background that the rulers strongly advocated respecting Confucius and Confucianism, a large number of Confucius temples were built all over the country. Due to the changes of the times, there are only about 300 relatively complete Confucius temples in China. Linyi Confucius Temple has lasted for more than a thousand years. It is the largest well preserved ancient architectural complex in Southeast Shandong and the precious cultural heritage of Linyi people.

Scenic activities

According to Wang Bao'an, the former director of Linyi Museum, the activities of offering sacrifices to Confucius can be traced back to 478 B.C. until the liberation of Linyi people had the custom of offering sacrifices to Confucius.

On December 9, 2011, representatives of the Confucius family in Linyi, such as Kong Zhaoming, the seventy first grandson of Confucius, offered a censer to the Confucius Temple in Linyi, and lit the first candle on behalf of the city's 40000 descendants of Confucius, thus opening the curtain of modern Linyi people's sacrifice to Confucius.

Human history

"Linyi County annals · rank worship" records very auspicious: "Confucius Temple, in the county governing the west, the old in the southeast, song Jingkang destroyed by fire. Jin Shouchen Gao Zhao, bu moved to this place, and then destroyed and repaired again. In the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the former site only survived. In the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, luoximeng, the prefectural magistrate, was rebuilt. During the reign of Zhengtong, he Zhen, the governor of Zhizhou, repaired it again. During the reign of Hongzhi, Zhang Feng and Wu Yin, the prefects of the state, and Zhu gun, the prefects of the state during the reign of Zhengde, were successively renovated. In the 35th year of Jiajing reign, Ren Xizu of Dongyan Road, seeing that the temple was destroyed, petitioned to demolish the temple and rebuild it. In the early Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Li Xixian, Xiong Yutai, and Xi'en, the prefect of Daoguang in the 15th year and Guangxu in the 9th year, were renovated. Its system: Dacheng hall. There are two sides in the East and West. Wubei is the kitchen and storehouse. The south is the halberd gate. The south gate is panchi, with stone beams on it; the south gate is Zhaobi. After the temple, Yidong is Chongsheng temple. "

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Confucianism, also known as Confucianism, some people think it is a religion and called Confucianism. Confucianism is a kind of ideology that regards Confucius (551-479 BC) as the master, so it is also called Confucius doctrine, which has had a significant impact on China and the far east civilization and continues to this day. Before the Confucian school, aristocrats and freemen in ancient society received the traditional socialized education of six virtues (wisdom, faith, holiness, benevolence, righteousness and loyalty), six behaviors (filial piety, friendship, amity, marriage, responsibility and compassion), and Six Arts (ritual, music, archery, imperial, calligraphy and Mathematics) through "teacher" and "Confucianism". From the content of teaching, the social education in ancient China was completely based on the cultural elements such as values, habits, conventions, behavior norms and norms formed by the Chinese people in the specific living environment for a long time. Confucianism absorbed all these cultural elements and rose to a systematic theoretical level. Confucianism, for short, is the mainstream school of consciousness in ancient China since the Han Dynasty,

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Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, for the first time broke the monopoly of education by the ruling class in the old days. He changed "learning in the government" to "teaching without discrimination", making the traditional culture education spread to the whole nation. In this way, Confucianism has a solid national psychological foundation, accepted by the whole society, and gradually Confucianized the whole society. However, the Confucianist school insists that "the way can't be more than three generations, and the law can't be more than two kings" (Xunzi king system).

Confucian classics were formed in the Confucius era, but the interpretation of Confucian classics is very different in different times. Confucianism has had a profound impact on China, East Asia, Southeast Asia and even the whole world. After the Qing Dynasty was replaced by the Republic of China, the last dynasty that regarded Confucianism as an official school, Confucianism was greatly impacted by the new foreign culture. However, after a variety of shocks, catastrophes and even the official regime's attempt to eradicate Confucianism, Confucianism is still the core value of the general public in Chinese society. At the same time, Confucianism is the basic cultural belief in East Asia.

Restoration and protection

Confucius Temple is commonly known as "Confucian Temple". In September of 1914, Confucius Temple was changed to honor Confucius. At present, Dacheng hall, Minglun hall and ancient ginkgo trees are listed as municipal cultural relics protection units.

Confucius Temple has been restored ten times. After the liberation of Linyi City in 1948, Confucius Temple was well preserved. During the "Cultural Revolution", the Confucius Temple was destroyed, leaving only Dacheng hall, Minglun hall and two Ginkgo trees. Since 1982, the provincial and municipal people's governments have carried out three repairs to the Confucius Temple. In June 1992, the people's Government of Shandong Province announced it as a key cultural relics protection unit at the provincial level. In June 1997, after the third large-scale restoration, Linyi Municipal People's government turned it into Linyi Museum.

In August 2011, the Linyi Museum moved to Beicheng New District, and the Confucius Temple began to be repaired behind closed doors again.

Internal introduction

Linyi Confucius Temple is a large-scale antique building complex in Linyi city. It covers a total area of 6975 square meters and a construction area of 2878 square meters. From south to north along the central axis are the front gate (East and West ear room), Dacheng Hall (East and west two verandas), Minglun Hall (East and West Portrait Stone Gallery) and office building (warehouse). Divided into front, middle and back into the courtyard. There is a ginkgo tree on both sides of the gate, which was planted in Jin Dynasty according to Secretary Shi. The male plant in the East and the female plant in the West are still luxuriant in branches and leaves despite 900 years of wind and rain. As soon as you enter the courtyard, the front of the hall is the magnificent Dacheng hall, which is 5 rooms wide. The front of the hall is a painted statue of Confucius, 4 meters high, with four sides. The east side is Yanzi and Zisi, and the west side is Zengzi and Mencius, 3.3 meters high. (highly doubtful). On both sides of the back of the main hall (the second entrance courtyard) is the stone Portrait Gallery. The West Gallery displays nearly 100 Han Dynasty stone portraits unearthed in Linyi area, which are the material materials for studying the history of Han Dynasty in China. Donglang displays the stone statues and inscriptions of the past dynasties after the Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties, which provides real information for the study of Buddhism, folk customs and calligraphy of the past dynasties in China's feudal society. Minglun hall is located in the back of Dacheng hall, with 5 rooms in width, 22.6 meters in depth and 10.77 meters in depth. It has 8 gold pillars, green bricks and black tiles. Behind the Minglun hall is a two-story old flat top warehouse and office building.

Future planning

Wang Bao'an, former director of Linyi Museum, said that he would make full use of the rich cultural attributes of Linyi Confucius Temple, seize the advantages and characteristics of Linyi Confucius Temple, carefully build a market platform with culture as the main body and integrating exhibition, exchange and interaction, and build Linyi Confucius Temple into a standard Confucian Cultural Park with rich cultural connotation.

Address: No.117, Lanshan Road, Lanshan District, Linyi City, Shandong Province

Longitude: 118.33910696064

Latitude: 35.071649739124

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