There is a Gong Zheng Temple in Gaomi, Shandong.

Indeed, Gong Zheng Temple is a provincial key cultural relics protection area, located in Weifang City, west of Houdian Village, Shuangyang Town, gaomi city, west of Weihe River and north of Lifu Mountain. It was established in memory of Zheng Xuan, a famous Confucian scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Zheng Xuan (A.D. 127-200), whose real name is Kang Cheng, was shot by Zheng Chong VIII, a master of Confucian classics in the Eastern Han Dynasty, in gaomi city. He once studied Yi, Ram Chunqiu, San and Jiu Zhang Arithmetic in business studies, then studied under Zhang's Ancient History, Zhou Li and Zuo Zhuan, and finally under Ma Rong's Ancient Classics. After studying abroad, I returned to work in Donglai and gathered disciples to teach, with thousands of disciples. His family was poor and studious, and he eventually became a great scholar. The disaster of partisan struggle began, and he was imprisoned. Duman devoted himself to writing. Mainly to study China's ancient classics, but also adopted the theory of China's modern classics, and noted the classics from all over the world. He wrote seven political papers, including Astronomy and Loyalty, with more than one million words. He was called "Zheng Xue" by the world and was a master of Confucian classics in Han Dynasty.

The Gong Zheng Temple in Zheng Xuan's hometown was built in the late Han Dynasty, and it was destroyed and built repeatedly in the past dynasties, with 99 temples in the Qing Dynasty. Every year on the third day of March and the ninth day of September in the lunar calendar, there will be a grand temple fair here, and local county officials will come to sacrifice every year. Later, due to the sand disaster, the temple was flooded. Now, this Gong Zheng Temple was rebuilt in the 60th year of Qing Qianlong (1795), and tourists come to pay homage before Tomb-Sweeping Day every year. Gong Zheng Temple is very large, with Tongde Gate, Appreciation Hall and annex hall. After destruction and collapse, it was rebuilt many times in the past. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, 1987 was rebuilt, 1993 was renovated and surrounded by courtyard walls. There are three ancestral halls in the courtyard, 8. 1m high, 9.6m long and 5.7m wide, with masonry structure. There are steps from the ground to the entrance of the temple, and there are clay sculptures inside. Above the niche door, "Master Haidai" was criticized horizontally, and the left and right couplets were "Pure Difference of Haidai, Flood Principle of Elegance". There is a pavilion in the southeast of the temple. 1987 was built to restore the inscriptions of Gong Zheng Temple. There are two stone tablets in front of the shrine, one in the east is the stone tablet of Gong Zheng Temple rebuilt by Jin Chengan in five years, and the forehead is engraved with "Daikin rebuilt Gong Zheng Temple", which describes Zheng Kangcheng's resume and achievements; To the west is the Gong Zheng Temple Monument rebuilt in the 60th year of Qing Qianlong (A.D. 1795).

The third ancestral hall is high, climbing 22 steps of gray bricks, entering the ancestral hall door, and sitting face to face with the painted statue. The master of Confucian classics is kind-hearted, with a book in simplified Chinese characters in his hand, as if he were thinking deeply, giving the impression that he is a knowledgeable scholar. The ancestral temple is relatively simple. Above the statue of Zheng Xuan, there are four golden characters "Master Haidai". The wall is inlaid with stone carvings praising Zheng Xuan's achievements. There is a vigorous couplet engraved on the door of the shrine: the article is people-oriented, and the study of classics depends on the public. The famous ancient cypress in front of the temple is called "Zheng Ci Gu Bai", which was said to have been planted by Zheng Xuan and was once one of the eight scenic spots in Gaomi. The ancients once wrote a poem praising: "dew makes waves, clouds are light and the wind is light;" The tree is far away, so it's cool to sit on it. "I don't know when Cooper died, but he still worked hard and looked like a dragon. So far, he hasn't rotted, and tourists are amazed.

Zheng Xuan (A.D. 127-200), a famous scholar at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was born here. When Zheng Xuan was young, he studied hard. He not only studied modern classics, but also studied ancient classics and asked for advice everywhere. At the age of 23, he went west to Hanguguan and studied under Ma Rong, a master of Fufeng Confucian classics. Ma Rong was very famous at that time, with more than a thousand disciples. Zheng Xuan was forbidden to give lectures face to face for three years, but he still studied hard and worked tirelessly day and night. Three years later, he mastered Ma Rong's classical theory of China. Since then, Zheng Xuan has traveled to Youzhou, Binhe, Yanzhou, Henan and other states. At the age of 42, he returned to his hometown and gathered people to give lectures, with thousands of disciples. Zheng Xuan didn't seek official advancement all his life, only paid attention to Confucian classics and taught his disciples, and eventually became a master of Confucian classics in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He has made great contributions in sorting out ancient historical documents. Many works in Confucian classics are annotated by him, and some books are still very detailed. He annotated the Zhouyi, Shangshu, Shi Mao, Yili, the Book of Rites, The Analects of Confucius and other classics. China's first poetry collection, The Book of Songs, was also annotated by Zheng Xuan. The note of "Three Rites (Zhou Rites, Yi Rites and Book of Rites)" in Notes to Thirteen Classics is adopted by Zheng today. He is also the author of Six Arts and Refuting the Different Meanings of Five Classics. Notes and writings * * * are about 6,543.8+0,000 words, which has become a valuable cultural heritage in China.

Zheng Xuan was quite famous at that time. His works are called "Zheng Xue", and the school represented by Zheng Xuan is called Zheng Xuan School. Kong Rong, the Prime Minister of Beihai, appreciated his profound knowledge and specially ordered the establishment of Gongzheng Town for him. There are many records about Zheng Xuan in the history books. Zheng Xuan was born in a poor family in Gaomi, Beihai on the fifth day of the seventh lunar month in the second year of Yongjian, Shun Di in the Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 127). He likes reading and arithmetic since he was a child. "He can calculate multiplication and division at the age of eight or nine." . By the time he was thirteen years old, he had been able to recite the Five Classics, such as The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Zhouyi, Book of Rites, Spring and Autumn Annals, and he would also study the five elements of astrology, astrology, wind angle and occultism. By the age of eighteen, he had become a rural miser, a rural cadre in charge of litigation and tax collection. Nevertheless, whenever I have a rest, I always go to Gong Xue to study. By the age of twenty-one, I have become a young scholar who is "rich in books, good at figures and figures, and good at arithmetic". In the first year of Yongjiachong (AD 145), Beihai Prime Minister Du Mi arrived in Gaomi. After hearing the praise of the Yi people, I met him and thought he had a unique talent, so I transferred to the county and recommended him to be promoted to imperial academy. After graduation, he began to study abroad. First, I visited scholars who were in office, living in seclusion, living in Bingzhou, Yanzhou and Henan, and then I went to Chang 'an in the west, where I studied under the famous master of Chinese studies, Ma Rong, for seven years. After more than ten years of study tour, he has "learned six arts, learned biography and experienced the reading wisdom of his secretary". After returning to the village, his knowledge and reputation were widely expected. Many Confucian scholars come here to worship him as a teacher. There are thousands of students at home and at the foot of the mountain, but due to lack of funds, they borrow fields from wealthy families, so that their disciples can farm to support their parents and give lectures at the same time.

In the fourth year of Jianning (A.D. 17 1), he was arrested and imprisoned for "the disaster of the same party fighting against differences". During his fourteen years in prison, he "stayed out of the door and devoted himself to studying classics", "collected many ceremonies, deleted countless books and periodicals, and corrected omissions", and paid attention to Confucian classics everywhere. The yellow turban insurrectionary uprising, the party struggle was lifted, and the old man regained his freedom after being imprisoned for 14 years. In his life, he read many books. There have been three kinds of annotations in the Book of Rites and Zhouyi, four kinds of annotations in the Book of Changes and Notes on Shu Wei, and seventy-four million words in Liu Yi Lun and Famoushou. He has made extensive achievements in Confucian classics, philology, pedagogy, law and natural science. He inherited Confucius' philosophical thought of "benevolence" to explain propriety, believed that propriety was the foundation of governing the country, maintained the ethical concept of filial piety and loyalty, and emphasized the political proposition of "benevolence and obedience to the people". The unification of Confucian classics and scholarship has had a far-reaching impact on the academic development of later generations.

He holds the ambition of "stating the mysterious meaning of sages and thinking about the injustice of all the hundred schools". After lifting the imprisonment, he has been admired by Confucian scholars and enjoys high influence and prestige. The ruler recruited him as an official many times, but he always took an evasive attitude and safeguarded the honor of the scholars. He was requisitioned and declared as a doctor, an assistant, and Zhao Xiang, and left the Corps Commander in the General's Office for fourteen times without assistance. Among them, he was recruited by General Braise to be an official in his department, and only stayed in the general's office for one night before he escaped. Later, he was recruited by Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty to promote agriculture. He resigned due to illness and returned to his hometown, but he did not go to his post. Later, he was called "Zheng Xingnong".

In the fifth year of Jian 'an of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (AD 200), Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were preparing for a decisive battle in Guandu. Yuan Shao knew the importance of the old man's virtue to the times, so Yuan Tan, the son of Qingzhou secretariat, forced him to join the army. The poor 74-year-old man died in Yuancheng in June and was buried in the east first. Because of the place name of Zheng's mother, he was reburied in his hometown, that is, the hometown established by the Zen Temple people in Kong Rong.

The Biography of Zheng Xuan in the Later Han Dynasty records that Kong Rong, the Prime Minister of Beihai, "deeply respected metaphysics, and made a door with his shoes. Tell Gaomi county to be a propaganda township and call it a township. This is the place name of Gongzheng Township. His hometown has always been called Gongzheng Township. In order to commemorate him, later generations built an ancestral temple next to his tomb and enjoyed the Confucius Temple sacrificed by rulers, literati, poets and ordinary people. Gongzheng Township should not be just a place name. Because she is a brand of China traditional culture! It symbolizes eternal traditional morality! It is a milestone in the academic achievements and development of Confucian classics!

Weishui comes to the south and Youlong rolls to the north; Shore sand is in a tight array, and thousands of hectares of rice waves are fragrant; Climbing high and inspiring, the area is flat and long; The vast ancient road, the ancient cypress ancestral hall. This is the image of Gong Zheng Temple written by ancient literati and poets. Zheng Xuan and Gong Zheng Temple are the pride of their hometown, and they also attract literati of all previous dynasties to miss the past and pursue sects. In 2008, Weifang established Xiashan Eco-economic Development Zone, which included Gong Zheng Temple and its surrounding areas into Gong Zheng Community in xiashan district. Gong Zheng Temple represents the rich cultural heritage of my hometown, which is always worth remembering.