The Mausoleum, Confucius Photo: Mausoleum Of Confucius

Tomb of Confucius in Nagasaki is perhaps the most Chinese of what is available in Japan. This temple is located on land that officially belongs to China, it was built from materials imported from China, and worked on his erection, too Chinese. This is the only Confucian temple built by the Chinese outside its homeland. The land for the Church was handed over to China by way of exception, as the mausoleum is recognized as a very important object of world culture.

The great philosopher kung Fu Tzu, better known under the name of Confucius lived in China from 551 to 479 BC Confucius founded a state ideology, which is recognized as the oldest in history. In Japan, Confucianism was introduced in the year 285, and teaching with the prefix "neo" is most popular in the late sixteenth century during the reign of Tokugawa Ieyasu. This doctrine asserted the need for hierarchy in society and the government and justified the division of the Japanese residents on the social strata. This ideology was officially adopted by the military government of the bakufu.

The first Church building was erected in 1893. It was built by the Chinese community of Nagasaki, with the support of the government of the Qing dynasty. The temple is not only a place of worship, but was primary school. During the explosion of the atomic bomb in August 1945, the buildings of the temple complex were severely damaged. Their recovery was delayed for more than 20 years, and the opening of the mausoleum to the public took place only in 1967. The second time the Church was restored in 1982, the Church, also with the support of the Chinese government.

In the form of the mausoleum is a marriage of the two architectural styles of southern and Northern China. The temple is made in red and yellow colour scheme, its territory is surrounded by a wall of red brick. Near the temple is a pond with a bridge of white marble. In the courtyard of the mausoleum have 72 stone statues on the number of the disciples of Confucius, and in the main hall is a statue of the teacher.

Behind the temple you can see the buildings of the primary school of Jinty and Historical Museum of China, the exhibits for which were brought from the National Museum in Beijing and the former Palace of the Emperor. Among the exhibits – antique maps of the silk road and models of early Chinese inventions.

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