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The Nanjing Imperial Examination Museum of China (Chinese: 南京中国科举博物馆 in Jiangnan Examination Hall, is located in the 1st Jinlin Road, Confucius Temple, Nanjing. [6] [1] [3] It is the only professional museum that reflects the content of Chinese imperial civil examination system in China. The museum, open both day and night, is ...
Wu Daozi (c. 685 – c. 758 CE [1] or c. 689 – c. 759 CE), also known as Daoxuan and Wu Tao Tzu, was a Chinese painter of the Tang dynasty.The British art historian Michael Sullivan considers him one of "the masters of the seventh century," [1] Some of his works survive; many, mostly murals, have been lost.
Confucius’ Birthday (Chinese: 孔子誕辰 / 孔子诞辰, Mandarin pinyin: Kǒngzǐ Dànchén), falls on the 27th day of the eighth lunar month of the Chinese calendar. It is officially celebrated on Taiwan as " Teachers' Day " on September 28, and in Hong Kong on the third Sunday of September as " Confucius Day", though the traditional date ...
In other temples, Confucius is represented by a memorial tablet. In 2006, the China Confucius Foundation commissioned a standard portrait of Confucius based on the Tang dynasty portrait by Wu Daozi. The South Wall Frieze in the courtroom of the Supreme Court of the United States depicts Confucius as a teacher of harmony, learning, and virtue. [112]
Philip J. Ivanhoe (born January 17, 1954) is an American sinologist and historian of Chinese thought, particularly of Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism. [1] He is a professor and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Georgetown University.
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During the Tang dynasty, every year around one to two percent of test takers would obtain a jinshi title out of a total of one to two thousand test takers. [3] The numbers of jinshi degrees given out were increased in the Song dynasty, and the examinations were given every three years. Most senior officials of the Song dynasty were jinshi ...
The Six Arts were practiced by scholars and existed before Confucius, but became a part of Confucian philosophy. As such, Xu Gan (170–217 CE) discusses them in the Balanced Discourses. [citation needed] The Six Arts were practiced by the 72 disciples of Confucius. [2] The Six Arts concept developed during the pre-imperial period. It ...