Déyáng

Deyang lies on the Chengdu plain, where rivers descend from the mountains to water fields north of the provincial capital. Its Confucian temple served as a place of learning and sacrifice to the sage. Founded under the Southern Song, it was moved to a new site in 1368 at the beginning of the Ming. The temple was destroyed in the warfare of the late Ming, amid the wider devastation of Sichuan.