Daixian Confucian Temple 代县文庙Dàixiàn Wénmiào

About Daixian Confucian Temple

The Confucian temple of the former Daizhou prefecture, built mainly in the Ming dynasty and called by the Dai County government the largest surviving prefectural Confucian temple in North China. Four courtyards run along a north-south axis from a decorated memorial archway through the Lingxing Gate and a semicircular pool to the seven-bay Dacheng Hall on a white-marble base, with the buildings roofed in peacock-blue glazed tiles. After 1949 the compound was used as a grain store, which helped it survive.

How to get to Daixian Confucian Temple

In the south-west of the old town of Daixian, the seat of Dai County, about 75 km north of Xinzhou.

Nearby

• Yanmen Pass 雁门关 20 km
  A Ming fortress gate on the Inner Great Wall, its ramparts running up the mountain ridges
• Foguang Temple 佛光寺 40 km
  A Tang timber hall of 857 on a quiet hillside, still filled with its Tang clay statues
• Mount Wutai 五台山 60 km
  Temples, a towering white stupa and yellow-tiled roofs below five flat-topped holy peaks
• Yingxian Wooden Pagoda 应县木塔 60 km
  A Liao-dynasty timber pagoda of 1056, five storeys outside and nine within

Also within 20 km: Bianjing Drum Tower 边靖楼 (under 10 km), Ayuwang Pagoda 阿育王塔 (under 10 km), Daizhou Ancient City 代州古城 (under 10 km).

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Learn more

• Wikipedia (Chinese)