history
"Lingxing gate" is a archway type wooden or stone building on the central axis of the Confucian temple. Lingxing is also called Tiantian star. According to the history of the later Han Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty offered sacrifices to heaven and prayed for the year, and ordered him to sacrifice tiantianxing. Tiantianxing is the left corner of longsu, one of the 28 constellations. Because the corner is the gate of heaven and the gate is shaped like a window lattice, it is called Lingxing gate. When the emperor offered sacrifices to heaven, he first offered sacrifices to the stars. Yuan Mei said in the essay of Suiyuan: "later generations prayed for the year with the spirit star of Han Dynasty, which had nothing to do with Confucius Temple. They also saw that the door shape was the window spirit, so they changed it to lattice." In Song Dynasty, Lingxing gate, also known as "Wutou gate", was built in Confucian temple to symbolize worshiping Confucius as heaven. The Lingxing gate in the Confucian temple appeared after the 15th year of Hongwu, the emperor of Ming Dynasty. It symbolizes that offering sacrifices to Confucius is like respecting heaven. Later, people interpreted Lingxing as tianzhenxing, Wenquxing and Kuixing. The ancients believed that "the master of Tianzhen star is celebrated by the scholars, and his essence is the God of Lingxing". Naming the gate of Confucius Temple with Lingxing symbolizes that Confucius can be compared with Tianzhen star, which implements education and cultivates talents in the sky. It also means that scholars from all over the world gather here and unify under the door of Confucianism.
Qufu Confucian Temple
The first gate of Confucius Temple in Qufu City, Shandong Province. There are three stone houses with four pillars, one is the pillar style stone house, the other is the fence gate, and the other is the wall. The square is 10.34 meters high, with two sections of columns above and below. The front and rear stone drums are clamped together, and the two sections intersect and are braced with stone pilasters.
Confucius Temple has a gate named Lingxing, which means respecting Confucius is like respecting heaven. "Lingxingmen" is the title of Hongli of Gaozong in Qing Dynasty. Built in the Ming Dynasty, it was originally made of wood. In 1754, Kong Zhaohuan, the seventy-first emperor of Yan, changed it to stone.
Lingxian County
Lingxian Lingxing gate, formerly known as the gate of Confucian temple, is now the gate of Lingxian teachers' training school. It was built in 1530 in the ninth year of Jiajing reign of Ming Dynasty. All of them are of Dou Gong structure.
Fushun Confucian Temple
Fushun Confucian temple is one of the "five wonders". Lingxingmen is composed of three groups of stone squares, and the middle group of stone pillars is 22.65 meters high, which is rare in Confucian temples all over the world. It is said to be the highest Lingxing gate in China.
Xingyi No.1 Middle School
Xingyi No.1 Middle School in Guizhou Province is a hundred year old school. He Yingqin, who was famous at that time, studied in Xingyi No.1 middle school. In a prominent position in No.1 middle school stands the Lingxing gate, which has experienced a hundred years of baptism. It is a beautiful landscape of No.1 middle school. It is also a landmark building in China.
Address: wengzhong Road, Xuanwu District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
Longitude: 118.83689880371
Latitude: 32.052070617676
Chinese PinYin : Ling Xing Men
