Build more family temples to worship ancestors, which are generally called “ancestral temples”, including ancestral temples, branch ancestral temples and ancestral temples.
Trees and flowers are planted in the courtyard, which is solemn and elegant.
A special temple is a temple built for specific people or gods to commemorate their merits and virtues.
The scope of sacrifice is limited to the five generations of ancestors within the high ancestor, which is also an early form of folk ancestral halls.
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The number of vertical and horizontal routes varies with the specifications of the ancestral hall, the financial resources of the builder and the size and shape of the land used.
These special shrines commemorating someone’s merit and virtue, because of the folk worship of them, their preservation time and spread far more widely than family shrines.
Ancestral hall can also be used as a social place for families, where ethnic people hold cultural entertainment and social entertainment activities such as entertaining guests; The ancestral hall of the big family also has an attached school where the children of the clan can study.
Those who have made great contributions to the people can be granted the title of God to set up temples; An official who died in office or was close to the people shall establish a special temple in the place where he performed meritorious service or where he previously held office.
Although they are still the clan organization form of maintaining blood relationship, the scope of sacrifice has gone beyond the blood relationship of the same family name and the same clan, including different branches of the same family name and clan, relatively distant lineages, and even different families with a certain blood relationship within a larger geographical range.
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The establishment of ancestral temples is inseparable from the patriarchal system; The ancients also called the place where gods were worshipped as a temple, such as Chenghuang Temple; The front hall of the palace is also called the temple.
Some large ancestral halls have dozens of questions, all of which are composed of more serious halls.
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With the development of history, ancestral halls have derived many categories and functions.
Therefore, the division of ancestral temples is very complex, and there are different methods from different angles.
Both the Tai Temple and the Family Temple can be called ancestral temples in concept.
They are places to commemorate ancestors and sages of previous generations, such as the Jin Temple in Taiyuan in the west of the mountain, the Wuhou Temple in Chengdu, the Wu Mu Temple in Hangzhou, and the Five Hundred Sages Temple in Suzhou.
Most ancestral halls have tall wall doors, gatehouses, screen walls, main halls, side rooms, halls and other buildings, and wing rooms and other buildings on both sides of the main hall.
Any clan member who violates the clan rules will be educated and punished here, or even expelled from the ancestral temple.
It was the earliest time to call the houses for sacrificing ancestral deities ancestral temples.
There are many kinds of ancestral halls.
There are many ancestral halls in the ancient town of Huishan, Wuxi.
Where there are officials and nobles, their ancestral place is called Family Temple or Ancestral Hall.
(2) Ancestral Ancestral Hall This kind of ancestral hall is commonly known as ancestral hall, which is upgraded from a branch or a number of temples (family halls).
Although the plan layout of ancestral halls is often changed due to the terrain and land use restrictions, the architectural styles of ancestral halls are various, and the building scale is mostly between 10 and 20.
According to the different levels, the scale of the ancestral temples is different.
It is a ancestral hall jointly built to worship ancestors by a clan with the same family name and branch.
According to the sacrificial system of the Western Zhou Dynasty, “the seven temples of the emperor, the five temples of the princes, the three temples of the officials, the one of the scholars, and the common people have no temples”.
Those who are ambitious and capable are called Langmiao artifacts, which means they boast that they can shoulder the responsibilities of the imperial court.
Just because the function of the ancestral hall is so great, its architecture is quite exquisite.
The geographical scope is smaller, the blood relationship is closer, and the seniors and children are very clear.
But in general, it is still the traditional way of axial symmetry and depth layout.
In the ancient feudal society of China, the concept of family was quite profound, and often a village lived in one family or several families with one surname.
The ancestral temple of emperors is called Taimiao.
It can be divided into three categories by attributes: temples, special temples and ancestral temples.
In a sense, the ancestral temple is the court of feudal morality, a leftover ideology of feudal society, which is not desirable.
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Ancestral temple is also the place where clan leaders exercise their clan power.
(3) Ancestral temple, also known as family temple, is the smallest specification in the types of ancestral halls.
For example, the temple hall and the corridor temple refer to the imperial court.
They belong to the same family temple.
Different ancestral halls have different meanings and express different emotions for people.
The appearance of temples is earlier than that of temples, which is closely related to the development of Chinese civilization.
From the perspective of shape and scale, they are all called ancestral halls, although they are very different.
In Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, “Xu people all built temples together.” Later, only those who had been emperors or marquises could be called “family temples”, and the rest were called ancestral temples.
The clan relatives use this spacious ancestral hall as a place for activities.
The function of ancient ancestral halls and ancient buildings is mainly that each house in the family has affairs such as marriage, funeral, longevity and ritual.
For example, the Temple of Marquis Wu commemorating Zhuge Liang has been preserved in Chengdu, Sichuan, Nanyang, Henan, Beijing and other places.
Ancestral halls and ancient buildings are inseparable from the gathering of ethnic groups in ancient China.
There is a grade limit for building ancestral halls and ancient buildings in ancient times, and Han people are not allowed to set up ancestral halls.
Ancestral Hall (1) Ancestral halls shared by a large number of families in the county are the larger clan organizations in the ancestral hall.
(4) The branch ancestral hall or the branch ancestral hall of each branch of the ancestral hall, also known as the small ancestral hall, is a blood combination composed of a family branch with the same surname.
