Nanjing Fuzimiao, Confucian temple in Qinhuai District, Nanjing, China.

Nanjing Fuzimiao is a Confucian temple on the north bank of the Qinhuai River in Qinhuai District. Its complex includes the Confucius Temple, the School Palace, and the Jiangnan Examination Hall. The central axis runs from Lingxing Gate through Dacheng Gate to Dacheng Hall, with Mingde Hall and Zunjing Pavilion behind. The river serves as the temple's semicircular pool, and a 110-meter-long, 10-meter-high brick screen wall stands on the south bank.

A Confucius temple was first built in 384 within the imperial university founded in 317, not the temple itself. The temple was rebuilt in 1034 on the former university site and called Wenxuanwang Temple. It was destroyed in the Jianyan era of the Southern Song, rebuilt under Shaoxing, and became the Jiangning and Shangyuan county schools in the Qing. It was rebuilt by Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang after the Taiping War and renamed Fuzimiao in 1866.

The name Fuzimiao means "Temple of the Master", the title Confucius's disciples used for him. The complex combines the Confucius temple, the school and the Jiangnan Gongyuan examination hall, and from the Six Dynasties to the Ming and Qing the area was called the "golden ground of the Six Dynasties". Each year from Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival the Qinhuai Lantern Fair fills the streets.

The temple is open daily and offers different areas to explore, with separate entry options for individual halls or the entire complex. Visiting early in the day helps you avoid crowds and move through the many spaces at a comfortable pace.

The imperial examination cells belong to the Jiangnan Gongyuan next to the temple, the largest examination hall of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The temple itself holds a small exhibit of folk art. Painted boats leave from wharfs such as Panchi Wharf in front of Dacheng Hall, with Chinese traditional music performed on board.