The sacred landscape of imperial China was dotted with Buddhist
monasteries, Daoist temples, shrines to local deities, and the
altars of the mandarinate. Prominent among the official shrines
were the temples in every capital throughout the empire devoted to
the veneration of Confucius. Twice a year members of the educated
elite and officials in each area gathered to offer sacrifices to
Confucius, his disciples, and the major scholars of the Confucian
tradition.
The worship of Confucius is one of the least understood aspects
of Confucianism, even though the temple and the cult were highly
visible signs of Confucianism's existence in imperial China. To
many modern observers of traditional China, the temple cult is
difficult to reconcile with the image of Confucianism as an
ethical, humanistic, rational philosophy. The nine essays in this
book are an attempt to recover the meaning and significance of the
religious side of Confucianism. Among other subjects, the authors
analyze the social, cultural, and political meaning attached to the
cult; its history; the legends, images, and rituals associated with
the worship of Confucius; the power of the descendants of
Confucius, the main temple in the birthplace of Confucius; and the
contemporary fate of temples to Confucius.
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