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An ancient stone statue of Confucius at the Beijing Temple of Confucius in Beijing.

The Temple of Confucius at Beijing is the second largest Confucian Temple in China, after the one in Confucius' hometown of Qufu. The temple was built in 1302, and officials used it to pay their respects to Confucius until 1911. The compound was enlarged twice, during the Ming and Qing dynasties and now occupies some 20,000 square meters. It stands on Guozijian Street near the Imperial Academy. Inside the temple there are 198 stone tablets positioned on either side of the front courtyard, and they contains more than 51,624 names of Jinshi (advanced scholars) of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and 14 stone stele pavilions of the Ming and Qing dynasties that hold various historical documents of ancient China. The temple also contains stone tablets recording the names of many generations of scholars who passed the Imperial Examination, and stone steles containing the Thirteen Confucian Classics, presented by the city of Jintan in Jiangsu Province. The Temple has many old trees, including one Cypress tree known as the "Touch Evil Cypress" (Chu Jian Bai), that has been made famous by folklore through the ages. Its name derives from a story from the Ming Dynasty that when a famously corrupt official was passing by, the tree knocked off his hat, and since then people have thought this particular tree could distinguish between good and evil.

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Taken in: 中國 / 北京直辖市 / 北京 / Andingmen (show map)

Taken on: August 3, 2014

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