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However, the immediate successors of [[Zheng Chenggong]] may have been the first to establish a Confucian temple on the island, doing so in the 1660s. At its center was a structure known as the Dacheng Hall (大成殿, J: ''Taiseiden''), much like comparable Confucian temples in, for example, Naha and Edo. Though the earliest surviving records of certain major Confucian ceremonies being performed there date back only to [[1696]], it's believed that such ceremonies may have been performed regularly since the establishment of the temple several decades earlier.<ref>Chia-Ying Yeh, "The Revival and Restoration of Ryukyuan Court Music, Uzagaku: Classification and Performance Techniques, Language Usage, and Transmission," PhD thesis, University of Sheffield (2018), 12-13.</ref>
However, the immediate successors of [[Zheng Chenggong]] may have been the first to establish a Confucian temple on the island, doing so in the 1660s. At its center was a structure known as the Dacheng Hall (大成殿, J: ''Taiseiden''), much like comparable Confucian temples in, for example, Naha and Edo. Though the earliest surviving records of certain major Confucian ceremonies being performed there date back only to [[1696]], it's believed that such ceremonies may have been performed regularly since the establishment of the temple several decades earlier.<ref>Chia-Ying Yeh, "The Revival and Restoration of Ryukyuan Court Music, Uzagaku: Classification and Performance Techniques, Language Usage, and Transmission," PhD thesis, University of Sheffield (2018), 12-13.</ref>
Following the retreat of the Republic of China government to Taiwan in 1949, it took active steps to encourage and promote Confucian practices as a means of showing opposition to the Communist regime in mainland China which brutally suppressed or corrupted traditional culture, religion, and anything which might be seen as "superstition." A Confucius Ritual Committee was established by the Taiwanese (ROC) government in 1968 to oversee and enact these major Confucian ceremonies.<ref>Yeh, 13.</ref>
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