Hangzhou Confucius Temple is located in Hangzhou City, 8 Fu Xue Lane, Shangcheng District, was built in the Northern Song Dynasty (1023-1063 years). Hangzhou Confucius Temple covers an area of 1.32 hectares and has a total construction area of 5581 square meters. According to the architectural pattern, historical context and cultural heritage connotation, it is divided into East and West two regions and West regions.
The western district is the central axis of Confucius Temple, with lattice star gate, Panchi, Da Cheng Gate and Da Cheng Hall, showing the cultural essence of Hangzhou Confucius Temple. Dacheng Hall, the main building, is not only the only well-preserved Qing-style double-eave Xie Peak wooden building, but also Hangzhou to commemorate and sacrifice Confucius Hall. The eastern part of Confucius Temple is a garden building area, displaying more than 420 stones of various kinds since Tang Dynasty, including local historical materials, masterpieces, figures, astronomical charts, water conservancy drawings, epitaphs and so on. It can be called a "stone library" with historical, scientific and artistic values. Among them, the Southern Song Dynasty Taixue Stone Sutra for the Song Gaozong calligraphy, only for the country.
Confucius Temple in Hangzhou is not only an important place for offering sacrifices to Confucius, carrying forward Chinese studies and humanities education, but also a base for inheriting Chinese traditional culture and patriotism education. It is now the eighth batch of national key cultural relics protection units in Zhejiang Province.