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::''Main article: [[Confucianism]]''
::''Main article: [[Confucianism]]''
Confucianism was violently suppressed under the [[Qin Shihuangdi|First Emperor of Qin]] (c. 210s BCE), but was revived and made the official state philosophy of the [[Han Dynasty]] in 139 BCE. In the centuries which followed, a number of Confucian temples were built. [[Emperor Taizong of Tang]] (r. [[626]]-[[649]]) later ordered that temples to Confucius be constructed in every major city in the empire.
Confucianism was violently suppressed under the [[Qin Shihuangdi|First Emperor of Qin]] (c. 210s BCE), but was revived and made the official state philosophy of the [[Han Dynasty]] in 139 BCE. In the centuries which followed, a number of Confucian temples were built. [[Emperor Taizong of Tang]] (r. [[626]]-[[649]]) later ordered that temples to Confucius be constructed in every major city in the empire.
The Confucian Temple and Cemetery, and Kong Family House, in Qufu are today registered UNESCO [[World Heritage Sites]]. Though today managed by the local government (i.e. as public institutions), they were until at least the 1920s still held and managed as the private property of the Kong family - Confucius' lineal descendants - and the mansion in particular was open only to visitors with a formal introduction or invitation.<ref>James Flath, "Managing Historical Capital in Shandong: Museum, Monument, and Memory in Provincial China," ''The Public Historian'' 24:2 (2002), 45.</ref>
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