According to historian Kang Yuan, the real story goes like this: the city was founded in 1723, in the first year of the reign of Emperor Yongzheng. Three years later, a Confucian temple was built, and inside it was a plaque that read: "Establish learning and education, spread culture and refinement," or "She xue li jiao, yi zhang ya hua" in Chinese.
據彰化作家、文史工作者康原考證，彰化自一七二三年雍正元年建城，三年後建了孔廟，裡面有座碑文上這麼寫著：「設學立教，以彰雅化。」