Jingsheng Confucian Temple, Confucian temple in Jingsheng Town, China

Jingsheng Confucian Temple is a rural temple in Jingsheng Village, Lingshi County, with three parallel building routes. Along the central axis stand a 3-metre-high, 7.6-metre-wide stone screen wall carved with the carp-leaping-the-dragon-gate motif, a stone Lingxing Gate, a small Pan Pond and Zhuangyuan Bridge, Dacheng Gate, and the Dacheng Hall on a 1-metre platform. The Dacheng Hall's statues are modern.

Founded as a village Confucian temple by LingShi magistrate Ran Danian at local residents' request, it was built between 1332 and 1336, though one account dates it to 1342. Repaired repeatedly, the present buildings are Qing dynasty. It was listed as a Shanxi provincial heritage site in 1996 and as a national one in 2013.

The temple was a village Confucian school, and its west route held the Mingluntang lecture hall with a school inside, while the east route had a relief granary and a charity hall. The name Jingsheng belongs to the village around it. Look for the wooden archways flanking the stone Lingxing gate, inscribed "De mou tiandi" and "Dao guan gujin".

The temple features an open layout with clear pathways that make it easy to navigate the courtyards and halls. Visitors can move freely through the different areas at their own pace.

The temple preserves distinct zones for worship, study, and public gatherings that reveal how learning and spiritual practice were closely linked here. This separation allows visitors to see how different aspects of Confucian life functioned together.