Jingning Confucian Temple is located on the campus of Jingning No.1 Middle School. It was built in the 21st year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1543), with an original construction area of 18076 square meters. The Confucian Temple faces south, with Dacheng Hall, Jiyun Gate and Shixian Temple Gate as the axis, forming the main building, with wing rooms on both sides from Dacheng Hall to Jiyun Gate. The whole building complex is symmetrical in layout, distinct in primary and secondary, unique in shape and magnificent in momentum, and it is a representative building of the Ming Dynasty. 1993 was listed as a provincial cultural relics protection unit by Gansu provincial government in March.
20 19 10 7. Jingning Confucian Temple was selected as the eighth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Confucius (55 BC1-479) was born in Changping, Lu (now southeast of Qufu, Shandong). A thinker, educator and politician at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the founder of the Confucian School, is one of the most influential figures in China's history and culture, and has great influence all over the world, especially in Southeast Asian countries, and is one of the world's cultural celebrities. The ancestor of Confucius was Wei, the brother of the late Yin Dynasty, who sacrificed to the Shang Dynasty and was sealed in the Song Dynasty. The sixth ancestor Jia took Kong as his surname. The father of Wuzu once took refuge in Lu, and later settled in Lu. Details of Confucius++