Fashion at Confucius Temple in Taiwan

September 28th is Confucius’s birthday, which also means is Teacher’s day in Taiwan. So, I decided to take a trip to Taichung county where there is a Confucius temple. You hear the word temple, and may think of Chinese people dressing very traditionally at this temple. But, no you’re wrong. We found these married couples taking their wedding photos at the temple in black. Very unusual color to me, but they’ve got their own punkish fashion style. She was wearing long, black wedding dress with black high heeled boots! She told me that she wanted her wedding album to be different. She’s supposed to be wearing traditional Chinese dress at this temple, to show some respect. But, she quoted “I just wanted to be unique, I love my black wedding dress, and thats my color!”

Confucius (551-479 BCE), according to Chinese tradition, was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought. His teachings, preserved in the Lunyu or Analects, form the foundation of much of subsequent Chinese speculation on the education and comportment of the ideal man, how such an individual should live his live and interact with others, and the forms of society and government in which he should participate. Fung Yu-lan, one of the great 20^th century authorities on the history of Chinese thought, compares Confucius’ influence in Chinese history with that of Socrates in the West.

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