Abstract:Local Confucian temples are usually the remains of the sacrificial architecture in“Confucianism”, and another important architecture is the "Ming lun Hall". Since the Han Dynasty, official schools was built in Hunan, and by the Qing Dynasty, the number of Confucian temples has reached 79. Based on the detailed research on the historical evolution, layout and shape evolution of construction of Xiangtan Confucian Temple.Then from the independent case to discuss the all Confucian temples in Hunan during Ming and Qing Dynasty, we find the following changes in the construction of Confucian temples: First, On the scale, Confucian temple is almost the same as Confucianism in the early days,but to the middle and late, Confucian temple is more important than Minglun Hall, which was reduced dramatically. Second, In the construction layout,It developed to which is from the front and back layout of the shared axis to the left and right layout with two axes. Third, in the configuration ,the contents of Confucian Temple had been increased and Confucianism’s reduced, As a Confucian building, It is more symbolic than functional.