Hancheng Confucius Temple (Chinese: 韓城文廟) is located in Hancheng (韓城), Shaanxi (陝西) Province, China. Hancheng Confucius Temple is the third largest shrine specially built for offering sacrifices to Confucius (孔子), a great thinker and educator in ancient China.
Hancheng Confucius Temple is a set of architecture groups of the Yuan (元) Dynasty (1271-1368) that are preserved intact.
There is a Five-Dragon Wall (五龍壁) standing at the entrance of the temple, which is used to shield an entrance gate in traditional Chinese architecture.
Currently, Hancheng Confucius Temple has 22 main and complementary buildings, altogether 78 rooms, which make it the largest and best preserved ancient architecture in western China.
Dragon Aisle in the second courtyard was built for the emperor, although no emperor had ever visited here.
Dacheng Palace (大成殿) is the main building of Hancheng Confucius Temple, in which sacrifices were performed on the memorial tablet of Confucius.
Minglun Hall (明倫堂) was the place in which Confucius gave lessons of disabusing, now it has been turned to an office and warehouse.
