The Archive · 1934

Kaifeng Temple

The Kaifeng Confucius Temple was rebuilt as the "Student Library" when Marshal Feng Yuchsiang was in Honan. Some two years ago, the library was combined with "the Honan Library. Now a provincial higher primary school occupies the place. Going into the temple at the resent time, one will find that there remains nothing, except some ancient broken stone tablets.

According to a re in the city. there style schools to which conservative fathers send their sons, to study old Chinese classics such as "Shih Shu" or Confucius' "Four Classics" and the Uke. They celebrate the birthday of Confucius according to the lunar calendar, that is, on the 27th day of the 8th moon, In recent days, ancient relics were discovered in two places in. the province. One was at a small village, pamed Tunfanftien, in Chihsien in Northern Honan. When digging a farmer found a large quantity. of earthenware. The magistrate of the district sent police there, and arrested the farmer with the relies Another find was in the eily. When building a road, workers dug out two big jars_and some gambling instruments. Some people say that these relies belong to the Sung Dynasty.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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