Quanzhou Confucian Temple, Confucian temple in Licheng District, Quanzhou, China.

The Quanzhou Confucian Temple stands on Tumen Street in Licheng District. Its complex is divided into a temple on the west and a prefectural school on the east, with the Dacheng Hall as the main structure: seven bays wide, five deep, under a double-eaved hip roof of yellow glazed tiles, its eaves supported by six coiled-dragon stone columns. The Minglun Hall, rebuilt in 1543, has a single-eaved gable roof, also of yellow glazed tiles.

The shrine was founded to promote Confucian scholarship in the region and flourished during the Song and Yuan periods as the main learning center. Its walls and monuments document several reform phases that reflected the institution's role across different historical eras.

The temple's name comes from its role as the prefectural Confucian school, with the left-school-right-temple layout formed in 1137. The east hall now holds the 'Citong Scenes' exhibition on Quanzhou's history, the west hall a show on the temple's architecture and its role in cross-strait exchanges, and the Minglun Hall a display on the city's educational history.

The complex sits on Tumen Street in Licheng District, with the Confucius temple on the west side and the prefectural school on the east, so follow the halls in that order. Bus lines 4, 6, 14, 19, 24, 25, 26, 33, 41 and 601 stop at the Fu Wen Miao station. Three permanent exhibitions occupy the east and west wings and the Minglun Hall.

The stone inscriptions in the temple come from different centuries and show how teaching methods and schools of thought evolved over time. These records offer a rare window into how education was actually shaped in this region.