A Research on System of Being Honored in the Confucian Temple

In order to worship Confucius, Confucian disciples and many great Confucian scholars were elevated to sainthood and honored in the Confucian Temple by the emperors and royal government.According to the relations and contributes to Confucius, they were divided into three levels. The formation of this system relies on traditional rites and imperial authority. Fundamentally speaking, the system of sacrifice position in Confucius Temple is on behalf of Confucian orthodoxy. But the process from the proposal to there being honored in the Confucius Temple was a long and complex one involving all kinds of academic interpretations and contests in a political context.