#Dingzhou Confucian Temple Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Memorial Temples
Address:
No.1 Daogun Street, Dingzhou, Baoding
Opening times:
Open tomorrow at 08:30-17:00Closed Today
Recommended sightseeing time:
1-2 hour
Look, there are inscriptions on the beam
In ancient times, inscribing on the beams during house construction was a long-standing custom. It typically included information such as the construction year of the building, the names of the craftsmen, the owner of the house or the financier, and some even added poems and auspicious phrases. This allowed future generations to know a lot of specific information about the house, and sometimes it could even serve as proof of property ownership.
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When looking up at the Wen Temple in Dingzhou, one can find inscriptions on the beam. At a glance, it reads something about XX supervising the work, the tribute scholar XXX, and the associate XXX, with handwriting that is still quite clear, which is quite surprising. The entire temple has a long history, dating back to the late Tang Dynasty, and it is the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units. Of course, today it is mainly the remains of ancient buildings from the Qing Dynasty.
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The courtyard also has two locust trees that were personally planted by Su Dongpo when he was the governor of Dingzhou, which are now over 900 years old. The stone carvings scattered in the courtyard also exude a sense of the ages. It's another day with new discoveries.
You can shoot... arrows inside the Dingzhou Confucian Temple ~
After leaving the Gongyuan, I was so thirsty that I bought a cup of 'Poor Ghost Coffee' at the antique-style pedestrian street and gulped it down. A few hundred meters further west, I arrived at the Dingzhou Confucian Temple.
Inside, there are two rather novel attractions.
One is the 'Falling Star Stone,' which is a meteorite. According to the Qing Dynasty 'Annals of Dingzhou,' about two li west of the state capital, on the left side of the road, there is a stone lying obliquely, three to four feet in length and one foot seven inches thick. Its quality is pure and hard, and its color is reddish-yellow like unpolished jade. It is said that a star fell here and turned into a stone, hence the common name 'Falling Star Stone.' However... this stone doesn't quite look like the meteorites I've seen in science articles... ^_^
The second is the 'Su Dongpo Twin Pagoda Trees.' Su Dongpo, a gourmet of the Northern Song Dynasty, served as the governor of Dingzhou from 1093 to 1094. According to the Qing Dynasty 'Annals of Dingzhou,' Su Dongpo planted two pagoda trees when he came to the Confucian Temple to worship Confucius. The eastern one is like a dancing phoenix, and the western one is like a divine dragon, which later generations praised as the 'Dragon and Phoenix Twin Pagoda Trees.' To this day, they are lush and thriving (they had not yet sprouted in early March ^_^). There is also an interesting group of 'Pagoda Trees Embracing a Chinese Toon' nearby.
In the eastern courtyard, you can spend some money to practice 'shooting,' one of the 'Six Arts.'
Admission is 10 yuan.
Bess Cooper
Pass it on! People in Wenjiang, Chengdu are having a barbecue in the air-raid shelter behind our backs!!
Such a comfortable place! Wenjiang, you're not promoting it?! Foolish... It's so big inside, it's a great place to stroll around! I even got lost😂!!
This environment, it's not appropriate if you don't get a skewer! Meat skewers are 4r, vegetable skewers are 1r, the prices are touching!! I've found the gathering place for Wenjiang people😎 Next to it is the Confucius Temple, it can be arranged on the weekend~