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The feeling of traveling to the Temple of Confucius

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When I first visited Qufu, Confucius's hometown, Confucius famously said: "Friends come from afar, and they are happy." The first thing you see when you come here is the Yangsheng Gate with the "Wancheng Palace Wall" written on it, which was written by the Ming Dynasty scholar Hu Zong to express his respect and praise for Confucius, but the tour guide said that what you see now is replaced by the Qianlong Emperor himself.

The feeling of traveling to the Temple of Confucius

Walking forward, there is a row of houses called "Jinsheng Yuzhen Fang". Comparing Confucius's thoughts, the ancient sages of Dacheng Stone Fang, there is a unicorn monster carved on the lotus throne above each called "ward off evil", also called "roar to the sky", which is an ornament that can only be used in the mansion of the prince in feudal society.

The feeling of traveling to the Temple of Confucius

Come to the Star Gate. In feudal society, all officials who come to Qufu to worship Confucius, regardless of their position, come to the Temple of Confucius to see this stele, and must dismount the civil official and the military attaché to dismount to show respect for Confucius.

The feeling of traveling to the Temple of Confucius

Now we pass the Holy Time Gate, the small stone bridge facing us, called "Bishui Bridge", there is a gate on each side of the bridge to the south, the east gate is called "Kuaijian Gate", which means sneak peek, and the west gate is called "Yanggao Gate" to praise Confucius's learning is very profound. The gate we enter is called "Kodo Gate", and then it is "Daizhong Gate".

The wooden building in front of us now is called "Kuiwen Pavilion", which was originally the library building of the Temple of Confucius. "Kui Xing" is one of the twenty-eight stars, and later people evolved it into the head of civil officials, and feudal emperors compared Confucius to Kui Xing in the sky, so Confucius is also known as "successive civil officials". The pavilion is 23.35 meters high, 30.1 meters wide and deep

17.62 meters, triple cornices, four-layer bucket arch, solid and reasonable structure, there was a big earthquake in Qufu during the Kangxi Dynasty, "the houses in the world fell nine, the survivors were one", but Kuiwen Pavilion stood proudly and unharmed, which shows the wisdom and superb architectural art of the ancient working people on the mainland.

We now enter the sixth courtyard of the Temple of Confucius, and in front of you are 13 stele pavilions, 8 in the south and 5 in the north. A total of 55 stone steles from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties are preserved in the pavilion. The stele in the middle of this row, weighing about 65 tons, was mined from Beijing's Xishan, and at that time, it was a miracle that such a heavy stone stele was transported from thousands of miles away to Qufu.

We now enter the Dacheng Gate, "Dacheng Gate" refers to today's Dacheng, in front of the "apricot altar", according to legend, it was the place where Confucius set up an altar to lecture, there was an apricot tree on the side of the altar, when the Qianlong Emperor came to worship, he once gave poetry praise, the poem said: When the indica is open again, a few trees are clustered with branches, how is it a comparison between the world, and civilization is springing together for the ages.

The hall standing in front of us is the world-famous "Dacheng Hall", which is one of the "three major halls" in China, and is as famous as the "Taihe Hall" of the Forbidden City in Beijing and the "Tianci Hall" of Taishan Dai Temple. The hall is 24.8 meters high, 45.78 meters wide and deep

24.8 meters, carved beams and paintings, brilliant golden walls, especially the surrounding 28 stone pillars, for the world cultural treasures, are carved from whole stone, the front 10 are deep relief, each column two dragons play pearls, coiled and rising, lifelike, the knife technique is strong and powerful, each has its own changes. In the past, when the emperor came, he wrapped this pillar in yellow cloth. If they saw it, they would probably be ashamed of themselves. The dragon columns on the sides and back porch are bas-reliefs, with 72 dragons per column, for a total of 1296. The Dacheng Hall enshrines the statue of Confucius, flanked by four pairings, the east and west are Fusheng Yanhui, Shusheng Konghe, and the west is Zongsheng Zeng Sheng and Yasheng Mengzi. Then there are the 12 philosophers. Every year on September 26th and September 28th, we hold the grand International Confucius Cultural Festival and Confucius here

The birthday commemorative ceremony, the performance of large-scale Confucius Music Dance and "Xiaoshao Music Dance", and the holding of a variety of cultural and tourism activities, welcome everyone to the time.

The green tile corridors on both sides of the hall are called the two peninsulas, with a total of 80 houses, which are the places where later generations worshiped the ancestors and Confucianism, and now the two corridors mainly store Han portrait stone carvings and famous ancient monuments. The most precious are the stone carvings of the Six Dynasties of Han and Wei

The 22 pieces, such as "Five Phoenixes", "Ritual Vessels", "Yiying", "Confucius Temple", "Shi Chen" and "Zhang Menglong" steles, are all national stone steles, which are regarded as the best of calligraphy art and valuable treasures. In the northernmost two temples, there are 584 stone steles, called "Yuhong Lou" Fatie, which were carved by the 68th generation of Confucius, Sun Kongjian, who collected the handwritings of famous calligraphers of previous generations, and have high artistic value.

The dormitory is dedicated to Confucius's wife Yuanguan clan, and this hall is called the Holy Relics Hall, which was during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, according to Sima Qian's history. The Confucius family compiled 120 carved stone comic strips. This is the first comic strip on the mainland with a complete character story.

Now that we have left the gate of the old house, the tour of the Temple of Confucius is over. The Temple of Confucius is a huge cultural museum that we can only glimpse once in a hurry. If you can't see the whole picture, especially if you can't understand its charm, then leave it for you to savor when you come back later. Thank you

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