Dujiangyan confucian temple

Dujiangyan Confucian Temple(Dujiangyan Wenmiao, 都江堰文庙）

Dujiangyan restores traditional meeting etiquette

The Confucian temple at Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, held a performance to demonstrate traditional meeting etiquette in ancient China on Saturday. The performers, wearing Han-style clothes, acted as the host and the guest and showed how ancient gentlemen met and became friends. The meeting often started with the guest calling on the host and offering a gift - usually a pheasant, which indicated the noble character of a gentleman. Then the host paid a return visit to the guest and gave him back the gift. The guest and the host would have tea together, and might try some noble recreational activities such as Guqin, Touhu and archery. The Dujiangyan Confucian temple has been trying to restore the traditional etiquette system and preserve traditional culture since it reopened to the public in May.

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Dujiangyan holds traditional drinking ceremony

The Confucian temple of Dujiangyan held a wine-drinking ceremony, steeped in tradition, on Sunday, the Double Ninth Festival in the China's Lunar calendar. The community wine-drinking ceremony is an ancient tradition that dates back to the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC-771 BC). The ceremony, though held in the style of a banquet, aims to advocate the Confucian doctrine of filial piety and fraternal duty, said Deng Shijian, director of the activity. In ancient times, the ceremony was usually held in the education institution of each county in every spring and autumn and only gentlemen of noble character and high standing would be invited, according to Deng. According to the Book of Rites, which reflects Confucius ritual thought, only those aged 60 and above can sit at the ceremony while those younger have to wait upon the seniors. The older one is, the more meat they get. In this way, people are taught to respect and support the old. The Dujiangyan Confucian temple has been trying to restore the traditional rituals and carry forward the traditional culture since it reopened to the public in May. The temple has held a series of activities including archery and Han-style weddings. http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-10/14/content_17031475.htm http://en.gmw.cn/2013-09/11/content_8868275.htm

Dujiangyan temple holds ceremony in honor of Confucius

A temple in Dujiangyan held a ceremony in honor of Confucius, on Sunday, in Chengdu, Sichuan province. The ceremony followed tradition as laid down in ancient writings. Performances involving music, song, dance and rituals, were held in strict accordance with Confucian culture . Zhou Yingzhi, a Shanghai scholar, said this was the first time the ceremony was held at this temple. “We would like more children and young people to participate,” Zhou said, “so that the younger generation can learn more about traditional culture.” Displays of archery, calligraphy and art were also on offer and drew a wide audience. The Confucian temple at Dujiangyan has been focusing on the traditional etiquette system. It has held a series of activities after reopening to the public in May. The temple is set to host a number of lectures and study tours. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/regional/2013-06/18/content_16633841.htm

Confucian temple in Dujiangyan hosts lecture series

The Confucian temple in Dujiangyan - a southwestern city in Sichuan province known for its irrigation system - began a series of lectures on June 12, during the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival. Zeng Zaozhuang, a professor at Sichuan Normal University, gave a lecture on the festival and Su Shi, an ancient Chinese poet who wrote about the festival a lot in his articles and poems. The Dragon Boat Festival, which many people regard as a festival in memory of ancient patriotic poet Qu Yuan who lived in 2,000 years ago, was originally a festival for people to drive away plague, according to Zeng. "It was because Qu died on the same day that people began to commemorate him at the festival by making Zongzi, or rice-dumplings, and rowing dragon boats," Zeng said. The festival, along with other traditional Chinese festivals such as Spring Festival, Middle Autumn Festival and the Double Ninth Festival, is also celebrated by other Asian nations including Japan, Vietnam, PRK and ROK. The Confucian Temple in Dujiangyan dates back to the ninth century, and was destroyed in the magnitude-8.0 Wenchuan earthquake in 2008. Dujiangyan local government rebuilt the temple and reopened it in May, trying to restore China's "six classical arts" –archery, ritual, music, horse-riding, calligraphy and mathematics –and to promote studies of ancient Chinese culture. A series of lectures on studies of traditional Chinese culture will continue to be held every month from this lecture on. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/regional/2013-06/18/content_16633841.htm

Dujiangyan tries to restore China's classical arts

Dujiangyan, a city in Southwest China's Sichuan province famous for its irrigation system, is trying to restore China's "six classical arts". The Confucian temple of Dujiangyan held a series of activities on April 12 to promote the Confucian tradition of archery. Archery, ritual, music, horse-riding, calligraphy and mathematics are known as the six classical arts. Li Junyang, a teacher from Beijing Normal University - Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), performed and gave a speech on traditional Chinese archery. Archery was required learning for ancient Chinese Confucian scholars. The ritual of archery was widely applied in social activities in ancient China and helped shape the noble character of Confucian scholars. However, traditional Chinese archery, which has lasted more than 2,000 years, has disappeared from the social life of modern Chinese. The archery activities nowadays are Western, completely different from traditional Chinese archery. Fortunately, the rich heritage of ancient Chinese classics that record and introduce archery enables people to restore the old tradition. Li Junyang has developed a course on traditional Chinese archery according to its cultural essence and his teaching practices. The Confucian temple of Dujiangyan will try to restore the traditional six classical arts with the help of the Cultural Resources Research Center of Peking University. Traditional Chinese archery will be included as a normal course at the temple.

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