Temple of Duke Li

　　Commonly known as the Temple of Zigong, it was built in the 12th year of the Hongzhi era of the Ming Dynasty (1499) by Magistrate Liu Tai. The revised "Xunxian County Annals" by Zhang Kentang records: “The Temple of Zigong is located to the east of the street inside the South Gate, and was rebuilt by Magistrate Zhao Jianji.” The "Continued Xunxian County Annals" compiled by Zeng Zhenzong and Ma Rixuan record: “Three mu and six fen of land in front of the Temple of Confucius of the Duanmu family, purchased for fifty taels of silver, was bought with the salary donated by Magistrate Chen Guozhu in the second year of the Qianlong era (1737). Also, (constructed) a three-bay main gate, one screen wall, three fenced gateways, spanning forty zhang in length from front to back, eighty-five zhang of courtyard walls, and one archway facing the main street. In the fifty-fifth year [of Qianlong], Wu Xueceng renovated it.” In the first year of the Guangxu era (1875), Magistrate Zhang Baoxi and Duanmu Jimin, a descendant of Zigong, renovated it again.

　　In the early 1930s, the temple had a main hall with five bays housing a statue of Zigong, with the Duke Li Academy and study rooms (also called the Xingdao Academy) located in the east and west corridors. Below the fenced gateway stood six horizontal stone steles, which were inscriptions recording renovations from the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as a carved stone of the Kuifu diagram. In the northwest corner of the hall grew an old scholar tree over a meter in diameter, tall and lush, said to have been planted by Zigong himself. Next to the street west of the temple (now the Chengguan Grain Management Office), a stele was erected reading “Hometown of the Sage Zigong.” Later, the scholar tree gradually withered over time, and only its trunk remains today. The Temple of Zigong was demolished in the late 1950s.