Qualla: Tainan Confucian Temple https://qualla.com/tainan-confucian-temple en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/tainan-confucian-temple-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tainan Confucian Temple https://qualla.com/tainan-confucian-temple Tainan Confucian Temple: Introduction https://qualla.com/tainan-confucian-temple/ Photo credit Mk2010, CC BY-SA 4.0. The gate says it plainly: Quan Tai Shou Xue, the First Academy of Taiwan. Before this temple existed, there was no formal Chinese educational institution on the island. In 1665, two years after his father Koxinga's death, Zheng Jing approved a proposal from his chief of staff Chen Yonghua to build a Confucian temple and national academy on a south-facing hill in what is now Tainan's West Central District. On the east side, they erected the Hall of Ethics, where instructors would lecture and cultivate intellectuals. On the west, the Hall of Great Achievement housed the mortuary tablet of Confucius and his distinguished disciples. It was the beginning of formal education in Taiwan, and 360 years later, the compound still stands on Nanmen Road.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/tainan-confucian-temple-wp/wsj6-tainan-confucian-temple-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tainan Confucian Temple: The Kingdom's Classroom https://qualla.com/tainan-confucian-temple/ Photo credit 阿文, CC BY 3.0. The Kingdom of Tungning, established by Koxinga after he expelled the Dutch from Fort Zeelandia in 1662, needed institutions to govern a Chinese society on what had been a colonial outpost. Chen Yonghua, the chief administrator who designed much of the kingdom's civil infrastruct...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/tainan-confucian-temple-wp/wsj6-tainan-confucian-temple-the-kingdoms-classroom.mp3 0:06 2 full Tainan Confucian Temple: Renovation Upon Renovation https://qualla.com/tainan-confucian-temple/ Photo credit Dquai, CC BY-SA 4.0. When the Qing dynasty annexed Taiwan in 1683, the first regional administrators immediately set about renovating the compound and reconstituting it as Taiwan Prefecture Academy. A major expansion in 1712 under Chief Administrator Chen Ping established the layout that largely pers...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/tainan-confucian-temple-wp/wsj6-tainan-confucian-temple-renovation-upon-renovation.mp3 0:06 3 full Tainan Confucian Temple: Damaged But Enduring https://qualla.com/tainan-confucian-temple/ Photo credit Mk2010, CC BY-SA 4.0. Japanese rule after 1895 brought the temple's lowest point. The Wen Miao was repurposed as a public school and military barracks, suffering considerable damage. A 1917 renovation tore down some structures but stabilized what remained, essentially fixing the compound's scale and l...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/tainan-confucian-temple-wp/wsj6-tainan-confucian-temple-damaged-but-enduring.mp3 0:06 4 full Tainan Confucian Temple: The Weight of Being First https://qualla.com/tainan-confucian-temple/ Photo credit Mk2010, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tainan's Confucian Temple carries a particular burden of significance. It is not the grandest Confucian temple in Asia, nor the most architecturally elaborate. What it possesses is priority. This is where formal Chinese education began on Taiwan. Every school, university, examina...

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