Liuyang Confucius Temple, Confucius temple in Liuyang, Hunan, China
The Liuyang Confucius Temple is a Qing-style Confucian temple complex facing south on the campus of Liuyang No. 1 Middle School at 81 Guizhai Road, covering over 6,000 square metres. Its palace-style buildings imitate the Confucius Temple in Qufu and are known as "the first Confucian temple south of the Yangtze". The grounds include the Dacheng Hall, the Kuiwen Pavilion and other halls and courtyards.
The temple originated during the Northern Song dynasty, though the structures visible today were rebuilt in 1843 at the present location in Liuyang. This reconstruction established the form that has endured to the present.
The temple's ritual music for Confucius ceremonies was listed in 2008 as provincial intangible cultural heritage and in 2014 entered the fourth national list. In 1895 Tan Sitong and Tang Caichang founded a mathematics society in the temple's Kuiwen Pavilion, later approved by governor Chen Baozhen as a public school. The site became the Liuyang County Museum in 1991.
The temple stands at 81 Guizhai Road in the Huaichuan subdistrict of Liuyang, inside the grounds of Liuyang No. 1 Middle School, so entry follows the school's arrangements. The compound faces south and covers more than 6,000 square metres; the halls are reached on foot from the school gate.
In 1895 Tan Sitong and Tang Caichang founded an arithmetic society in the temple's Kuiwen Pavilion; with governor Chen Baozhen's approval it grew into a public school of mathematics. In 1926 the first county committee of the Chinese Communist Party in Liuyang was established here, with Pan Xinyuan as its first secretary.
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