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King [[Sosurim]] of [[Koguryo]] established a National Confucian Academy (太学, K: ''taehak'') in [[372]], and several centuries later, King [[Gwangjong]] of [[Goryeo]] (r. [[925]]-[[975]]) established a system of Confucian examinations for selecting scholar-officials to be appointed to government posts.<ref name=pam/> [[Buddhism]] remained dominant, however, over Confucianism in Korea for over a thousand years, with Confucianism only first becoming dominant in the 15th century. At that time, the [[Joseon]] Court adopted Neo-Confucianism (K: ''seongrihak'') in the vein of Zhu Xi (K: Joo Hui) as the chief guiding political philosophy of the court.<ref name=pam/> Some scholars argue that the Confucianization of Korean society was not complete until the 17th century, and the 17th-18th centuries saw considerable ritual controversies.<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 125.</ref>
King [[Sosurim]] of [[Koguryo]] established a National Confucian Academy (太学, K: ''taehak'') in [[372]], and several centuries later, King [[Gwangjong]] of [[Goryeo]] (r. [[925]]-[[975]]) established a system of Confucian examinations for selecting scholar-officials to be appointed to government posts.<ref name=pam/> [[Buddhism]] remained dominant, however, over Confucianism in Korea for over a thousand years, with Confucianism only first becoming dominant in the 15th century. At that time, the [[Joseon]] Court adopted Neo-Confucianism (K: ''seongrihak'') in the vein of Zhu Xi (K: Joo Hui) as the chief guiding political philosophy of the court.<ref name=pam/> Some scholars argue that the Confucianization of Korean society was not complete until the 17th century, and the 17th-18th centuries saw considerable ritual controversies.<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 125.</ref>
==Confucianism in Taiwan==
[[Han Chinese]] settlers and others who sojourned or settled in Taiwan brought their Confucianism-informed upbringings with them, making it difficult to say just when it was that Confucianism was first introduced to Taiwan.
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>
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