Located on Guozijian Street inside Anding Gate, the Temple of Confucius in Beijing is the place where people paid homage to Confucius during the Yuan (1271-1368), Ming (1368-1644) and Qing ...

Ever since China’s President, Xi Jinping, first began to claim the reins of power in Beijing nearly two years ... smashing relics and defacing the old Confucian temple. In communist propaganda ...

Today Confucius’s temple, cemetery, and family mansion are UNESCO World Heritage sites as well, as popular tourist and pilgrimage destinations. The Temple of Confucius was built shortly after ...

For most of the 103-year history of the Communist Party of China, the teachings of the philosopher Confucius were deemed ... have become the pillars of Beijing’s efforts to shore up its ...

The temple, cemetery and family mansion of Confucius, the great philosopher, politician and educator of the 6th–5th centuries B.C., are located at Qufu, in Shandong Province. Built to commemorate him ...