Lu County, Qufu.

Qufu was originally known as Lu County, with a history of more than 800 years, until the sixteenth year of the opening of the emperor, Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian changed Lu County to Qufu, to the present. There is Fu in Lu City, and it is seven or eight miles long, so it is called Qufu.

Qufu is the hometown of the Confucian sage Confucius.

The emperor led hundreds of officials to worship Confucius.

The emperor issued an edict and enshrined Confucius as the first teacher of Dacheng's most holy Wenxuan Wang, which is a very long edict. Confucius was named a nun in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and Confucius's original character was Zhongni, so the nun was an honorific title.

By the time of the Western Han Dynasty, due to frequent natural disasters and social turmoil, the Confucian Mei Fu believed that this was due to the failure to properly arrange the sacrifice to Confucius, so the heavens were angry. At that time, the imperial court accepted Mei Fu's proposal and named Confucius as a descendant of Shang Tang, continuing the sacrifice of the previous king.

Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty once named Kong Ba, the eldest grandson of the two branches of the Kong family, as the king of praise, and in the future, he worshiped Confucius with 800 households of the palace of Chengjun, and praised him as the Duke of Xuanni.

By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial court officially regarded Confucius as the god of the state, and his status was the same as that of Sheji, and he was named the Marquis of Baozun.

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, he was posthumously named Wensheng and called Wensheng Nun.

During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Jin was named Zou Guogong.

By the time of the Sui Dynasty, he was the first master and nun.

After the founding of the Great Qin, the Duke of Zhou was the first saint and Confucius was the first teacher.

"Kong Sheng should be crowned king!"

The Eastern Han Dynasty named Confucius as the Marquis of Baozun, the Northern Zhou Dynasty as the Duke of Zou Guo, and the Great Qin Emperor decided to give Confucius the title of king.

"King Wenxuan!"

At the same time, the title given to Confucius is also the ancestor of Dacheng's most holy Wenxuan Wang.

From now on, every county in the country will establish a temple to worship Confucius, two major sacrifices in spring and autumn every year, and two small sacrifices on the first and fifteenth days of each month. Schools at all levels in various localities should erect statues of Confucius to worship. ”

At this time, the emperor raised the status of Confucius and listed him as a great worship at the same level as the god of Haotian and the god of Sheji, and this honor was only Confucius in the ages.

As soon as this will came out, even Wang Qi and other Confucian people were shocked.

Don't talk about the king, this Dacheng Most Holy Wenxuan King Ancestor, every word is an eternal honor.

Moreover, it was listed as such a big ceremony, and Wang Qi and other Confucian people were flattered.

Wen worships Confucius, Wu worships Guan Gong.

The emperor has the idea of the emperor.

Although Confucianism has a bad evaluation in later generations, but in ancient times, Confucianism was actually divided into many schools, including the Wangba faction, and the much-criticized school of science was actually to the beginning of the Song Dynasty and the Ming and Qing dynasties.

"Set up a subordinate worship for Confucius."

From the worship, that is, with the worship, the Confucian temple not only worships Confucius, but also selects Confucian sages to accompany the sacrifice.

The emperor appointed the servants as four matches, and the four matches were Yan Hui, Zeng Shen, Zisi and Meng Ke.

Among the enshrined figures in the Confucian Temple, the four matches are second only to Confucius, and the emperor posthumously crowned the four pairs as dukes, so they are also called the four dukes and the four saints. Their statues sit on either side of the statue of Confucius. In order: Confucius statue east for Yanguo Gong Yan Hui (Fu Sheng), Yi Guo Gong Kong Ling (Shu Sheng), west for Chengguo Gong Zeng Shen (Zongsheng), Zou Guo Gong Meng Ke (Ya Sheng).

Under the four saints, there are twelve philosophers.

The twelve philosophers are excellent disciples of Confucius and sages of the same generation, enshrined in the Dacheng Hall of Confucius Temple, Min Loss (Ziqian), Ran Yong (Zhonggong), Duanmu Ci (Zigong), Zhongyou (Zilu), Bu Shang (Zixia), Youruo (Ziruo), and the west north is Ran Geng (Bo Niu), Zai Yu (Zi I), Ran Qiu (Zi You), Yan Yan (Zi You), Zhen Sun Shi (Zi Zhang) and so on.

After the twelve philosophers, it is the sages, and then the Confucians, and the outstanding Confucians of the past dynasties after the disciples of Confucius, there are seventy-two sages and eighty-one Confucians.

"Sage, posthumously crowned Confucius as king, what about his descendants?"

"After Confucius, the title of knighthood is praised, and the world is endless, and its origin is far away. Since Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty named him to worship him, to Emperor Ping when he was named the Marquis of Baocheng, and began to posthumously seal Confucius as the Duke of Xuanni, Xuanni, his country, Xuanni, his marquis, and his lord. After that, he was named the Duke of Zou Guo, and his descendants were all knighted. ”

"I advocate Confucianism and respect the sages, so I add the name of the most holy Dacheng Wenxuan Wang Ancestor, which means to be extremely respectful. I hope that the latecomers can inherit my will, respect Confucianism, and dare not fall, so I decided to seal the descendants of Kong Sheng as the Duke of Yansheng, and the future generations will inherit it! ”

Wang Jue praised it after hearing it.

"Yan, implying that the saints continue to evolve and reproduce endlessly, representing the Confucian realm of our emperor and my dynasty respecting Confucius and worshipping saints!"

Compared with the previous titles of praise and praise, praise and respect, sect saint, sainthood, worship sainthood, worship sainthood, praise saint and other titles, it is obviously more the level of the emperor.

"Awarded Confucius the thirty-first generation, the prince of the country to supervise the sacrificial wine, and Kong Yingda, a scholar of Jixian Palace, as the first generation of Yansheng Duke."

"Saint, Kong Yingda is not the direct descendant of the contemporary generation!" Wang Qi reminded the emperor.

Luo Cheng just smiled.

"Mr. Kong went to school at the age of eight, studied under the great Confucian Liu Zhuo, can recite a thousand words a day, is familiar with the scriptures, and is good at words and chapters. At the beginning of the great cause, he was elected as the Ming Jing, awarded the doctor of Hanoi County, and was an assistant teacher in Taixue. Later, I was called as a bachelor, and then the official scattered cavalry attendant, and finally presided over the Guozi Jian as a sacrificial wine, and I worshiped him as a scholar of Jixian Hall and entered the Hanlin Academy. The emperor asked, "Isn't Kong Yingda the contemporary sage of the Kong family?" Wouldn't it be right for him to inherit the title of Duke of Yan? ”

The emperor insisted so much, of course, other people didn't say much. Originally, the inheritance of this title is, of course, to establish a successor but not a long, and a long man not to be virtuous. But the emperor is now conferring the title of the first generation of Yan Shenggong, not inheriting the original Duke of Zou, so he can also choose a virtuous one.

When he was a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, the rest of the Kong family was indeed no better than Kong Yingda.

It turned out that the Sui Dynasty had awarded the title of Marquis of Shaosheng, a descendant of Confucius, and the title was the thirty-first grandson, that is, Kong Yingda's brother Kong Siyi, who should be in charge of Dengke when Emperor Wen, and awarded Jingzhou Sibing to join the army, and later moved to the prince. Yang Guangye for four years, named him Shao Shenghou, and gave him 100 households.

can be regarded as a good talent if he can enter the Jinshi in the Daye Dynasty Examination.

However, compared to Kong Yingda, he is now old, and he will not be able to go into hiding in his hometown after the end of the Sui Dynasty, so this time the emperor simply chose Kong Yingda as the Holy Duke of Yan.

"Kong Siyi will be renamed the baron of Qufu County, he is too old and does not want to go out again, and I will not force it, so I will reward him with 500 horses of silk and 300 yuan of money, so that he can recuperate at home with peace of mind."

In fact, not long after the founding of Great Qin, his title disappeared after Qufu returned to Qin, and the emperor did not recognize Yang Guang's title as his Marquis of Shaosheng. Therefore, when he knew that the emperor was going to give his brother Kong Yingda the title of the Holy Duke of Yan, he had nothing to dissatisfaction with.

What's more, now the emperor has also given him a Baron Qufu as compensation, so he is satisfied.

For the ancestor Confucius was honored as the king of Wenxuan, and he also chased such a long name, the new Qufu man was very excited, all counties in the country should build Wenxuan Wang Temple, and all schools should set up Confucius statues, which means to the Confucian family He knows very well, which means that the Confucian family can really be with the country in the future.

For this reason, even if he, the eldest of the elders, gave up the title to Kong Yingda, he was definitely willing.

The emperor smiled and added some money and silk rewards to Kong Siyi, and the emperor respected Confucius for the imperial examination, which was to create a new class of scholars to change the monopoly of the old scholars. Therefore, while honoring Confucius, it is not a big deal to give some favors to his descendants, just an empty title.

Luo Cheng not only named Confucius as the king of Wenxuan, he also had already named Guan Yu as the Emperor of the Three Realms of Demon Suppression, Shenwei Yuanzhen Tianzun Guan Shengdijun, and took Guan Temple as a martial temple and incorporated it into the ceremony.

Now, the sage Confucius has just kept pace with the martial saint Guan Gong, and he is one step late to become the main god of the national sacrifice.

King Kong was crowned King Wenxuan, and Guan Yu was directly the prince and the emperor and the emperor, and became the emperor of Guan Sheng in one step.

In all counties across the country, the Guan Shengwu Temple has been set up for a long time, and there are also famous generals in the Wu Temple.

For the emperor, the sage Confucius and Guan Yu are actually just two examples deliberately set by the emperor and the imperial court, and the focus is not on Confucius and Guan Yu, but on the emperor's idea of respecting literature and martial arts, and attaching equal importance to civil and military affairs.

"In Qufu for Confucius Sheng, build a temple of the highest scale, to build a holy place for Confucian scholars in the world, and the famous Confucian sages of the future generations will enter the temple to accompany the worship and be worshiped by the world's scholars." The Emperor said, "The cost of use is drawn from my inner treasury." ”

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