n the year of 1815 (20th year of Emperor Chiaching’s reign in Ching Dynasty), Hsiadanshui County Deputy Governor Wu Hsing-Chung along with Scholar Guo Tsui and Lin Meng Yang proposed to build Pingtung Tutorial Academy (otherwise known as Confucius Temple) in attempt to revive local scholastic conducts. Despite numerous relocations and renovations, original framework of the Academy’s lecture hall, worship shrine and dormitory was preserved to fully demonstrate spatial characteristics unique to traditional tutorial academy architectures. Pingtung Tutorial Academy is Pingtung’s oldest architectural remnant as well as the only academic building within the boundary of Pingtung. Pingtung Tutorial Academy was originally built within the premise of today’s Zhongshan Park. It consists of a 36-room dormitory with its lecture hall situated at the front hall and the shrine which worships Lord Wen Chang, Chengtzu and Choutzu at the rear hall; in 1895 (21st year of Emperor Guang Xu’s reign in Ching Dynasty), Pingtung Tutorial Academy was transformed into a Confucius Temple which worshipped Confucius as its primary deity with 4 great wise men, Mengtzu, Yantzu, Ssutzu and Tsengtzu as well as 5 great Confucius scholars, Choutzu, Chutzu, Chengyi, Chenghao and Changtzu as peripheral deities. However, the lack of funds for building repair eventually led to the Temple’s abandonment. In 1937 during Japanese Occupation, the Japanese planned on relocating the Temple. However, due to Japanese scholars’ effort in calling out for historical preservation, the Academy was relocated to its present address on Shengli Road in tack. Nevertheless, the prolonged negligence in building maintenance returned the Temple back to its original shabby appearance. It was not until 1977, under Pingtung County Magistrate’s restoration plan supervised by known architect Mr. Han De-Bao that the Temple was finally able to regain its original façade in 1979. The courtyard was expanded with front and rear h