ancestral hall
English
Noun
ancestral hall (plural ancestral halls)
- An ancestral shrine.
- 1986, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, James L. Watson, editors, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51:
- Wu Hai, whose objections to contamination of the patrilineal line were cited above, described an ancestral hall (tz'u-t'ang) of the Lins of Lo-t'ien (Hupei).
Translations
ancestral shrine — see ancestral shrine
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