What's in the Confucius Temple?
There is a group of towering palace-style buildings in the west profile of Ningyuan ancient city, with red walls and yellow tiles, resplendent and magnificent. It is a famous national key cultural relics protection unit and an important cultural landscape in Jiuyi Mountain Scenic Area-Ningyuan Confucian Temple. Ningyuan Confucian Temple, originally built in the east of ningyuan county 1 1 km in the old town of Lengdao County, was renamed and moved in the Northern Song Dynasty (965). It was built in this place and county, also known as Gong Xue. It is a temple dedicated to Confucius, an ancient thinker and educator, and also an official school in ancient society. It is an educational institution that integrates temple learning and spreading Confucian culture. Ningyuan Confucian Temple faces south, with a width of 60.2 meters from east to west and a length of 170.8 meters from north to south. Covering area 10282 m2. These buildings are symmetrically arranged along the central axis. From south to north, the buildings on the central axis are Zhaobi, Chi Pan, Lingxingmen, Dachengmen, Dacheng Hall and Chongsheng Temple. Dengsheng Square, Buxian Square, Tengjiao Gate, Qifengmen, Xiangxian Temple, Minghuan Temple, Dongxi Temple, Zunjing Pavilion and Mingluntang are symmetrically arranged on both sides. Dachengmen is connected with the buildings of Xiangxian and Minghuan Temple, forming an east-west barrier, which divides the Confucian Temple into front garden and backyard. The wind and lotus reflected in the pond in the park are shaded by trees, and Lingxingmen Stone Workshop stands tall, which is a landscape of China. In the courtyard building, the circular corridor connects things, Dacheng Hall, Zunjing Pavilion, Minglun Hall and Chongshen Temple, which is a typical quadrangle-style building in China. China stone carving is a major feature of the architectural decoration of Ningyuan Confucian Temple. There are not only the only dragon and phoenix stone pillars in ancient buildings in China, but also platform fence stone carvings, single stone carvings, Lingxingmen stone carvings and three pairs of lion stone carvings. These stone carving techniques include high relief, cave carving, shallow relief and line carving. Exquisite craftsmanship, vivid modeling and soft lines. The spectacular stone carvings and the palace-style buildings with Zhu Liang and Huang Wa set each other off, attracting countless tourists to Jiuyi Mountain and admiring them.