English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Ancestral shrine
An
ancestral shrine
,
hall
or
temple
( or ), also called
lineage temple
, is a
Chinese temple
dedicated to
deified
ancestors
and
progenitors
of surname lineages or families in the
Chinese traditional religion
. Ancestral temples are closely linked to
Confucian
culture and the emphasis that it places on
filial piety
.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License