Comments on: Confucianism Summed up in Three Hundred Words http://thinkweird.info/30/confucianism-summed-up-in-three-hundred-words The wandering tune of a distant flute at night... Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thinkweird http://thinkweird.info/30/confucianism-summed-up-in-three-hundred-words#comment-48 thinkweird Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:58:25 +0000 http://thinkweird.info/?p=23#comment-48 Hi Sharon, Thank you for visiting my site and leaving a comment. I think people worship Confucius as a great spiritual master, not as a deity. Parents visit the his temple with their kids to commemorate him as the "master of all teachers", and tell their kids to study hard. It just occurred to me that it is actually a shrine, not a temple. Like the the temple of the national hero Yue Fei, it is a memorial. Hi Sharon,

Thank you for visiting my site and leaving a comment.

I think people worship Confucius as a great spiritual master, not as a deity. Parents visit the his temple with their kids to commemorate him as the “master of all teachers”, and tell their kids to study hard.

It just occurred to me that it is actually a shrine, not a temple. Like the the temple of the national hero Yue Fei, it is a memorial.

]]> By: Sharon Hennessy http://thinkweird.info/30/confucianism-summed-up-in-three-hundred-words#comment-47 Sharon Hennessy Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:07:08 +0000 http://thinkweird.info/?p=23#comment-47 I visited a "Confucian Temple" in QuanZhou last week. I wondered if it is/was authentic. Is/was Confucius associated with temple "worship"? I visited a “Confucian Temple” in QuanZhou last week. I wondered if it is/was authentic. Is/was Confucius associated with temple “worship”?

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