๐ Quanzhou Fuwen Temple, so far retains the song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties architectural style, compared to the Not far away incense of the Guandi Temple, most of the tourists who come here are tourists and leisurely and relaxing old people and children.
๐ The Temple of Literature was an ancient place of worship for Confucius and Confucian education, and was an architectural rule in which ceremonial temples were combined with official schools.
๐ As early as the last year of the Tang Kaiyuan, with the development and growth of Quanzhou Prefecture and the concentration of population, the Temple of Literature had been established. In the early years of the Taiping Revival of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Quanzhou Fuwen Temple was relocated to its current site, which has a history of more than 1,000 years.
๐ Although it has undergone several renovations, the Dacheng Hall of the Quanzhou Confucian Temple still retains the architectural style of the Song Dynasty. ๐ Not only that, because Quanzhou, as a port for foreign trade of the imperial court at that time, had an extremely important economic and political status in the Song Dynasty, compared with other temples of literature, the Quanzhou Temple of Literature had an unusually highest architectural specification.
๐ธ The Dacheng Hall of the Quanzhou Confucian Temple uses a very rare heavy eaves hall roof, yellow glazed tiles and dragon pillars.
๐ In the case of a strict hierarchical system in feudal society, the yellow glazed tiles belonged to the royal family, and the roof of this heavy eaves was also the highest rank among the roof styles.
๐บ The quanzhou fu confucian temple adopts the roof of the heavy eaves, which is the highest specification of the state-level confucian temple that enjoys the ceremonial system except for the Taixue Guomiao Temple in Beijing and the Confucius Temple in Qufu, Shandong.
๐ง๏ธ In the architectural planning of the Chinese Confucian Temple, a half-moon-shaped pool will be set up in front of the Dacheng Gate of the Xuegong, named "Panchi", which means "pangong pool", which is the symbol of official learning.
๐ According to traditional Chinese etiquette, there is a xuegong in the center of Tianzi Taixue, called "Peiyong", surrounded by water; while the study of the princes can only be south of Panshui, so it is called "Pangong", and can only have a half-moon shaped pool.
๐ก There is a Yuan Dynasty stone bridge on the Pan Pond of the Quanzhou Confucian Temple, and the bridge deck is paved with 72 rectangular strips of stone, representing the 72 proud protรฉgรฉs of Confucius.
๐งง The bridge on the pan pond, also known as the Zhuangyuan Bridge, is not open at normal times, and only after the candidates have won the lifting can cross the bridge, which is the supreme glory.
๐ The Temple of Literature and education have always been closely linked, and the "unity of temple and learning" was a major educational system in the Chinese feudal era and a unique cultural phenomenon.
๐ The basic shape of Quanzhou Fuwen Temple is the courtyard space model of "Left Learning Right Temple", with a construction area of more than 5,000 square meters, with Dacheng Hall as the core temple and Minglun Hall as the core, and the scale of the two groups of buildings is the crown of the seven southeast provinces in China.
๐ Visitors from afar may wish to visit here and feel the charm of the thousand-year-old Confucian culture.
โ ๏ธ Quanzhou Fuwen Temple Travel Tips:
๐ Address: Tumen Street, Licheng District, Quanzhou, Fujian Province
๐ฐ Fee: Free (with a star in the itinerary code, you need to provide a 48-hour nucleic acid certificate to enter)
๐ซ Opening hours: 8:00-17:30
๐ Transportation: Take No. 4, No. 6, No. 14, No. 19 and other buses to Fuwenmiao Station
