Confucius's Birthday is commemorated at Confucian temples with the Shidian, a formal sacrificial ceremony of music, dance and offerings before the sage's spirit tablet, traditionally dated to the twenty seventh day of the eighth lunar month and observed on the solar calendar as Teacher's Day in Taiwan (28 September) and in various forms across mainland China, Hong Kong, Korea and Vietnam wherever Confucian temple ritual has continued or been revived.
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Calendar SystemIts own record gives the traditional date as "the twenty seventh day of the eighth lunar month," the primary date this system fixes; the Gregorian Teacher's Day observance it also names is a modern civil adjunct. Date RuleTraditionally the twenty seventh day of the eighth lunar month; observed on the solar calendar as 28 September (Teacher's Day) in Taiwan. 1 Fixed or MovableFixed date in its own calendar 1 Observance
Observance TypeVeneration of a deity or holy figure 1 Observance TypeCommemoration of a person or event 1 Status
Status TodayLiving tradition, practised today 1 Connections
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This source names China directly: "and in various forms across mainland China, Hong Kong, Korea and Vietnam wherever Confucian temple ritual has continued or been revived."
Source Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom (eds)
Source Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom (eds)
This source names Hong Kong directly: "various forms across mainland China, Hong Kong, Korea and Vietnam wherever Confucian temple ritual has continued or been revived."
Source Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom (eds)
This source names Taiwan directly: "the solar calendar as Teacher's Day in Taiwan (28 September) and in various forms across mainland China, Hong Kong, Korea and Vietnam wherever Confucian temple ritual has continued or been revived."
Source Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom (eds)
This source names Vietnam directly: "mainland China, Hong Kong, Korea and Vietnam wherever Confucian temple ritual has continued or been revived."
Source Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom (eds)
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Source Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom (eds)
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1. Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1
Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom (eds), Columbia University Press, 1999on the Shidian sacrifice and Confucian temple ritualView the Source Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy
P. J. Ivanhoe and Bryan W. Van Norden (eds), Hackett, 2005general reference on Confucian institutional practiceView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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