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The confucius temple was used to be sacrifice confucius in Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. It was first built in 1309 that has history more than 600 years as yet. The total acreage is 20,000 centiare including 198 steles in Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties what are chiseled names of Jinshi, a successful candidate in the
highest imperial examinations. In addition, there are 189 steles what are chiseled 13 lection by Jiang Heng, a senior licentiate in feudal China in Kangxi time. He used 12 years to seal cutting them including 630,000 Chinese characters.
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