Confucius Temple is mainly composed of three buildings: Confucius Temple, Gong Xue and Gong Yuan, covering a huge area. There are buildings such as Zhaobi, Chi Pan, Paifang, Juxing Court, Kuixingge, Lingxingmen, Dacheng Hall, Mingdetang and Zunjingge. Confucius Temple, known as the scenic spot of Qinhuai, has become a characteristic landscape area of the ancient capital Nanjing. From the Six Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many aristocratic families gathered nearby, so it was called "Six Dynasties Gold Powder" and was the largest traditional ancient market in China.
2. Jiangnan Gongyuan
Jiangnan Gongyuan, also known as Nanjing Gong Yuan and Jiankang Gong Yuan, is located in the east of Gong Xue of Confucius Temple in Qinhuai District, Nanjing. It is the largest and most influential imperial examination room in the history of China, a place for scholars in southern China to study, one of the three ancient buildings in the Confucius Temple area, and an important part of the Qinhuai scenic belt of Confucius Temple. It is the largest imperial examination room in China and the largest in China. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties alone, more than half of the officials in China came from Gongyuan in the south of the Yangtze River, which is known as the "cradle of ancient officials in China".
3. Wuyi Lane
Wuyi Lane is located on Suzaku Bridge in Nanjing, on the south bank of Qinhuai River. During the Three Kingdoms period, this was the location of the military camp where the Kingdom of Wu defended Stone Town. Wuyi Lane was the residential area of two wealthy families in Xie Wang in Jin Dynasty. Children of both families like to wear black clothes to show their dignity, hence the name. Cultural masters such as Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi and Xie Lingyun, the originator of landscape poetry school, have emerged in Wuyi Lane, which is full of houses.
4. Meixianglou
Lou, also known as Li's former residence or Li Lou, was built in memory of Li. Meixianglou is located at No.38, Qian Ku Street, Confucius Temple in Nanjing, at the southern end of Laiyan Bridge on Qinhuai River. This is a house with three entrances and two courtyards. Meixianglou leads Wende Bridge to the left, Yanqiao to the right, Wuyi Lane to the south and Confucius Temple to the north. Calligraphy, painting, couplets, seal cutting, rockery, statues and garden landscapes, stone carvings, brick carvings, murals and lanterns are all on display.
Step 5 visit the garden
Zhanyuan is the oldest existing garden in Nanjing. Its history can be traced back to the mansion garden of Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan in the Ming Dynasty. Known for its rockery, it was named after Ouyang Xiu's poem "Looking at the Jade Hall, Like the Sky". Zhan Garden is the best preserved classical garden group in Ming Dynasty in Nanjing, and it is also the only open palace in Ming Dynasty. It was once a part of the mansion of Xu Da, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, and also the office of political envoys from all walks of life in the south of the Yangtze River in the Qing Dynasty.
Zhanyuan covers an area of about 20,000 square meters and has more than 20 scenic spots. Its layout is elegant and exquisite, including magnificent ancient buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, steep rockeries and the famous Taihu Stone in the Northern Song Dynasty.