Site of Developing Nationalism
July, 2001 is the 90th anniversary of the establishment of Chinas Communist Party. There are various forms of celebration happening in China recently. For example, there are performances, hiking events, tours following the route of historical senic spots. Comfucian temples is one of the most important sites. In the city of Rugao, retired seniors are going on a trip to visit the historical sites. Their local Confucian temples is the place where they gathered together and started their trip. They vowed in the temple, celebrating the development of the past several decades. However, this is not the first time that a Confucian temples has been combined with nationalism. In Guangzhou, Confucian temple is part of a bigger education base. In the base, there is a museum displaying the essentials our soldiers once used almost half a century ago, which helps the younger generations to remember the old difficult days. Every visitor of Guangzhou's Confucian temples will go to the museums part, because the temple is rather small. Confucianism has been the symbol of higher education and essential traditions of Chinese culture, it is considered to be the most suitable place to combine Chinese history and culture in order to develop nationalism.