Lanzhou Confucian Temple is also called Lanzhou Confucius Temple and Confucian Temple. In the third year of Qing Qianlong, Lanzhou Prefecture was established. Therefore, Lanzhou Confucius Temple is also called "Wenfu Temple". Wenfu Temple is located in the south gate of Lanzhou City, bordering Jiuquan Road in the west, Miao Wen Lane in the south, Caojia Lane in the east and Wudu Road in the north, which is now the campus of Lanzhou No.2 Middle School, covering an area of 30 mu.
The founding date of Lanzhou Confucian Temple is recorded in Gansu's New Tongzhi.
The Confucian Temple was built in the southeast of Fuzhi. In the fifth year of Yuan Shundi Zhi Zhi (1345), it was a state school. In the second year of Ming Hongwu (1369), it was changed to county school, and in the eighth year of Ming Hongwu (1375), it was rebuilt in Huang Zhen, a magistrate of a county; In the thirteenth year of orthodoxy (1448), it was restored as a state school; Order Li Jin to rebuild; In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing (1559), Peng Can, the deputy envoy of the Ministry of War, and Jingzhou Jun, the deputy envoy of the Ministry of War in the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, were repeatedly repaired.
As can be seen from historical records, the Confucian Temple in Lanzhou has existed since 1345 and has a history of nearly 700 years.
Lanzhou Confucian Temple has been rebuilt in past dynasties, and the last overhaul was in Xuantongyuan.
In Xuantongyuan year, that is, 1909, the then governor of Shaanxi and Gansu promoted the big sacrifice system and reported it to the court to rebuild the Confucius Temple in Lanzhou. Buildings include Dacheng Hall, East Wing, West Wing, Zunjing Pavilion, Chongsheng Temple, Jingyiting Pavilion, Minglun Hall, Dianshi, Lilier House, and other buildings, such as Gate, Lingxingmen and Chi Pan. At that time, there were dozens of things, about two in Dacheng Hall. In front of Dacheng Hall is Xingxingmen, and in front of it is Chi Pan (the pool in front of Lao Lan Da No.2 Middle School), where there is a famous bridge. South of the bridge is the palace wall, and there is a wooden archway between the bridge and the palace wall. In front of Dacheng Hall, there are the words "blue sky is straight up", including "pacify the monument of Shuomo", "pacify the monument of Qinghai", "pacify the monument of Junggar" and "pacify the monument of Huibu". A little further east of Dacheng Hall, there is a "Zunjing Pavilion".
Dacheng Hall, the main building of Confucius Temple in Lanzhou, faces south, with all-wood structure and exquisite architecture. Liu Er, a famous educator in Gansu Province, wrote a couplet of Dacheng Hall: "If you lift heaven and earth, there is no one;" All flesh and blood respect their relatives. "