Introduction of the Confucian Temple in Guide Building

Guide House Confucian Temple is located in Shangqiu Ancient City, a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. It is the largest existing Confucian temple building in Henan Province with a history of nearly 500 years. It was built in the thirty-four to thirty-eight years of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1555- 1559). When Confucius traveled around the world and returned to Shangqiu, his ancestral home in the Song Dynasty, he gave lectures here. Later generations built a Confucius temple here in memory of Confucius. Different from the layout of other Confucian temples in China, Dacheng Hall of Confucian Temple in Guide House has the architectural characteristics of eastern Henan. It is the only Confucian temple with a school built on the right side of the main hall, forming a unique architectural pattern of "learning from the scriptures in the left hall" and "learning from the scriptures in the right hall". Dacheng Hall, the main building of the Confucian Temple, is 7 rooms wide and 3 rooms deep, with 9 ridges and 6 animals, with overhangs and overhangs. It is a single-eave building built on the mountain, with embossed diagonal braces, red walls and green tiles, which is magnificent. On the east side of the Confucian Temple, there is also a thousand-year-old pagoda tree with a circumference of more than 4 meters, and there are statues of Confucius and his disciples in the courtyard.