Introduction to the Lingxing Gate: In front of the outer gate of the Confucius Temple stands a stone Lingxing Gate with six pillars and three bays, and a huabiao-style structure with soaring pillars. It is composed of six circular stone pillars, eleven stone beams, and twelve stone beams. It is 7 meters high, 13.45 meters wide, and 0.74 meters thick. The foreheads of the three stone gates are all decorated with exquisite reliefs. The middle gate is decorated with two dragons playing with pearls, and the left and right are red phoenixes and rising sun. The two dragons on the stone pillars are coiled relative to each other and rising up, full of vitality and movement. There are also six carps jumping through the dragon gate carved on the top, penetrating the dragon pillar and leaping into the dragon gate.

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