What is the layout planning of Confucius Temple in Quzhou?

Quzhou Confucius Temple is located at the eastern end of Xinqiao Street in the northeast of the city. This temple building covers an area of more than ten acres. Today's base site was built in the 15th year of Zhengde in Ming Dynasty (1520). The building was basically built on a large scale during Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, but today's building belongs to the late Qing Dynasty.

Zhaobi Confucius Temple is called "Wan Ren Palace Wall" by Zhaobi, which shows that Confucius is noble and knowledgeable. This wall is located at the southern end of the main axis of Confucius Temple, and Xinqiao Street passes between Zhaobi and the temple gate. Viewing the wall on the building not only forms a relatively independent space at the entrance, but also keeps close contact with the public block.

Gate of the Sage Temple This is the gate of the family temple. Three-bay foyer building, resting on the top of the mountain with a single eaves, with splayed walls on both sides, facing the walls. Entering the first courtyard, there are several ancient ginkgo trees, which are tall and straight, adding to the quaint and solemn atmosphere of the Confucius Temple. There are seven stone tablets embedded in the wall on the right, which are about building temples in past dynasties.

During the Hongzhi period of Dachengmen Ming Dynasty, it was recorded that Zhengde's temple was moved to the former site of Xi 'an County School and changed to Yimen. It's a hard mountain house with three bays and two rooms, and it's five purlins deep. There are stone pillars on the front and back eaves, and the forehead of crescent diaphragm. Each room has a straight couch door at the roof purlin. From the maps of Qujia Temple in Ming Dynasty and Kongjia Temple in Qing Dynasty, it can be seen that Dachengmen in Ming Dynasty is a building with double eaves and resting on the top of the mountain. In the early Qing dynasty, it was changed to a single eaves, and now it has become a hard mountain top, which was overhauled in the late Qing dynasty. Three rooms plus two rooms, this type of system is exactly the same as Dacheng's temple of Confucius in Qufu in the Jin Dynasty.

Dacheng Hall, the main building of Confucius Temple, is located in the Second Courtyard. In the yard, the branches of Cooper are tangled and quaint. There are nine bays in the east and nine bays in the west. During the reign of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty, Dong Xian was the guest house and the sage was Kong Jiashu. Later, with the expansion of the temple scale, the East-West Hall was changed to worship sages such as Mencius, Yanzi and Ceng Zi, and now it is a cultural relic showroom. There is a tunnel outside, and at the end of the tunnel is a platform where singing, dancing and music are sacrificed to Confucius. From this, it is Dacheng Hall. The temple was built on a high platform and rested on the top of the double eaves, which was magnificent. The width of Dacheng Hall is16.6m, and the depth is16.5m, which is nearly square. Beam frame structure, with nine beams on the upper eaves, four columns on the front and rear double walkways, and a pair of walkways on the lower eaves. The height from the roof purlin to the indoor ground is about10m. The interior space is high and open, the structure is simple and unpretentious, and there is no bucket arch. Dacheng Hall has grey tiles, dripping eaves and upturned wing angles.

The rest of the buildings include Lu Si Temple, Qisheng Temple, Jigong Temple, Wuzhi Temple and Xifeng Temple.