Zhongjiang Confucian Temple (Ancient Confucian Temple from the Ming and Qing Dynasties)
Introduction to the Confucian Temple📚: Zhongjiang Confucian Temple is located in the Xia Nan Street Community, Kaijiang Town, Zhongjiang County, Deyang City, Sichuan Province. According to the Zhongjiang County Gazetteer of the Kangxi period, the ancient Confucian Temple had long been abandoned. In the 13th year of the Jiading period of the Song Dynasty (1220), the county magistrate of Zhongjiang, Yuwen Tong, presided over the reconstruction of the Confucian Temple. Since then, it has been repaired and expanded many times throughout the dynasties, becoming one of the more complete Confucian Temples in Sichuan. The existing buildings are from the Ming and Qing Dynasties and are now a protected cultural relic unit in Sichuan Province.
Little tips✨: The Confucian Temple has no entrance fee and is located within Zhongjiang City, making it easily accessible. It is said that the clay used to sculpt the statue of Confucius was transported from Qufu, Shandong, the hometown of Confucius. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the court ordered the cessation of sculpting Confucius statues nationwide, replacing them with wooden plaques for worship. Existing clay statues were not to be destroyed, and no new ones were to be made. Therefore, it is said that there are only seven clay statues of Confucius in the entire country, including the one in Zhongjiang Confucian Temple.