Research On Qufu Confucian Temple Inscriptions In The Yuan Dynasty

Qufu is the hometown of Confucius. Confucius is a great thinker, educator, founder of the Confucian school. Qufu Confucian Temple is earliest Confucius temple, with a long history, large-scale, intact. It is an important witness of the historical development of Chinese ancient Confucianism. Now the Qufu Confucian Temple has become the common heritage of all mankind.Yuan Dynasty is the first unified dynasty built up by the minority in China. It has a vast territory, complicated structure and diversity of thought and culture. The vast empire of the Yuan Dynasty is also international.Qufu Confucian Temple holds many Yuan Dynasty inscriptions. They are abundance, distribution and closely around the theme of respecting Confucius and Confucianism. From these inscriptions, we can see that Yuan Dynasty hold the basic national policy of Confucianism governance. The statue of Confucius and Confucianism activities throughout the whole dynasty, not only the form of diversification, but also scale greatly exceeded the previous generation. In Yuan Dynasty, Confucius culture obtained the enormous development. At the same time, along with the national integration and cultural exchange, Confucianism further popularization in the Yuan Dynasty. In addition to the Han, many ethnic minorities also showed strong interest in Confucianism. The influence of Confucius improved. Besides, the Yuan Dynasty also emerged female worship Confucius phenomenon. It Reflected the Hong Ji La tribal prominent position, also reflected in the improvement of women’s social status. It has a good reference value for the research of political system in the Yuan Dynasty changes, development of the Yuan Dynasty Confucianism and change social customs.Of course, we should also realize that, the Yuan Dynasty is unprecedented opening in the cultural field. Various cultural forces are respected and developed during that time. Rulers of the Yuan Dynasty not only pay attention to Confucianism, but also pay attention to the Buddhist, Taoist worship. Most rulers of the Yuan Dynasty is not really love, identity of Confucianism. They only see Confucianism as a tool of the management of state, personnel training, calm people, maintain the ruling order, strengthening the ideological domination. They just make the Confucius as a sage to treat, not deliberately raise,even deified. By comparison, the Yuan Dynasty rulers are more interested in Buddhism and Taoism. Therefore, the Yuan Dynasty Confucianism has developed very rapidly, but not as good as Buddhism and taoism.The inscription of Qufu Confucian Temple is of great significance to study the political, economic, cultural, social life, the development of Confucianism, regional culture. These precious stone literature contains a large amount of information, to make up for the lack of traditional historical documents, for the study of the late Yuan Dynasty in history is particularly valuable. It is an important cultural wealth of our ancestors left.