The number of temples erected to his memory is sixteen hundred and sixty.

One of them occupies ten acres of land.

On the two festivals in the year sacred to his memory there are sacrificed some seventy thousand animals of different kinds, and twenty-seven thousand pieces of silk are burned on his altars.

Yet his is a religion without priests, liturgy, or public worship, except on these two occasions.
Sec.4.Philosophy and subsequent Development of Confucianism.
According to Mr.Meadows, the philosophy of China, in its origin and present aspect, may be thus briefly described.[14] Setting aside the Buddhist system and that of Tao-ism, which supply to the Chinese the element of religious worship and the doctrine of a supernatural world, wanting in the system of Confucius, we find the latter as the established religion of the state, merely tolerating the others as suited to persons of weak minds.

The Confucian system, constantly taught by the competitive examinations, rules the thought of China.