Tingzhou Confucian Temple

Tingzhou Confucian Temple

Tingzhou Confucian temple, also known as Confucius Temple, is a provincial cultural relic protection unit in Fujian Province. It is located at No.20 Zhaozheng Road, Changting County (Chengguan), Fujian Province. It was built in the third year of Shaoxing in Song Dynasty (133). It is an important place for eight counties of Tingzhou to worship Confucianism. In the history of Tingzhou Confucian temple, there used to be a huge complex of buildings, including most of Changting County government compound and all the office buildings of Changting County People's Congress. It is composed of lingxingmen, panchi, arch bridge, Yimen, menwuzhaishe, wenhuitang, Minghuan Xiangxian temple, Dacheng hall, Chongxian temple, etc.

Human history

architectural composition

Tingzhou Confucian temple, also known as Confucius Temple, is composed of lingxingmen, panchi, arch bridge, Yimen, menwuzhaishe, wenhuitang, Minghuan Xiangxian temple, Dacheng hall, Chongxian temple, etc. A stone tablet was erected in front of the gate, on which was engraved "where officials dismounted".

Tingzhou Confucian temple, built in the third year of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty (133), is an important place for worshiping Confucianism in eight counties of Tingzhou. Tingzhou Confucian temple is a huge building complex in history. Besides the main hall, there are lecture hall, Minghuan temple, Qisheng temple, Zongsheng temple and so on. It covers most of the county government compound and all the office buildings of the county people's Congress. Due to historical reasons, many subsidiary buildings of the Confucian temple have been used for other purposes. The main buildings, such as lingxingmen, panchi, arch bridge, chuamen, East veranda, West veranda and Dacheng hall, have been retained. They cover an area of more than 2500 square meters, with a grand scale, simple and magnificent. Dacheng hall, in particular, shows its unique momentum. It has three rooms in width and three rooms in depth. It has a beam lifting wooden frame, thirteen sandalwood rolling shed style promenade, and regular column network layout. The center of Mingjian is a square caisson, which is supported by peach three-layer Ruyi bucket arch, and has carved vertical balls at the four corners. In the second room, there are three wellhead ceilings, painted with dragon wind, flowers and plants; in the Ming room, the moon beam is made of large amount of wood, with a span of 7.35 meters, and the diameter of gold pillars is not less than 40 cm.

Architectural history

In the history of Dacheng hall, there are the most sage and forerunner's tablets in Dacheng hall, the East and West are fushengyanzi and zongshengzengzi respectively; a huge plaque written by Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty is hung above the hall, which reads "most sage and forerunner"; twelve sages' tablets are listed in the East and West; seventy-two sages' tablets are worshipped in the East and West. In 1996, it was announced as the fourth batch of provincial cultural relics protection units.

Since the Ming Dynasty to recent years, the Confucian temple has been repaired, so that the main building does not lose the charm of that year. The protection of Tingzhou Confucian temple also experienced some setbacks. For example, in 1980, the Lingxing gate was demolished and a four story cultural building was built, which damaged the integrity of the Confucian temple and lost the style of cultural relics. In 1995, according to the strong demand of the broad masses of the people, the county government returned the Confucian temple to its original historical appearance and decided to demolish the cultural building, set up the Confucian temple maintenance Council, extensively raised funds to rebuild the Lingxing gate and restore the original style of Tingzhou Confucian temple. In the past, there was a great sage's throne in Dacheng hall, with the East and the west being fushengyanzi and zongshengzengzi respectively; a huge plaque written by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty was hung above the hall, with the four characters of "great sage's first teacher"; twelve sages were listed in the East and West veranda; seventy two sages were worshipped in the East and West veranda. In 1996, it was announced as the fourth batch of provincial cultural relics protection units.

Tourism information

Detailed address

Address: No.20 Zhaozheng Road, Changting County, Fujian Province (next to Changting County Government)

Postal Code: 366300

Ticket information

Free admission

Address: 12619 km northeast of Zhaozheng Road, Changting County, Longyan City, Fujian Province

Longitude: 116.357403

Latitude: 25.833752

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