What is the meaning of the ancestral hall and what does the ancestral hall mean

The ancestral hall is a place where Confucianism worships ancestors or sages.

The ancestral hall has a variety of uses and is mainly used to worship the ancestors and sects. In addition, it is also used as a place for weddings, funerals, birthdays, weddings and other events for the grandchildren of each house. It is worth noting that the clansmen sometimes hold important affairs in the ancestral hall in order to discuss important affairs within the clan.

The ancestral hall is a place for the clansmen to worship their ancestors or sages. There are many uses of ancestral halls, in addition to the use of worshipping ancestors, when the grandchildren of each house have to handle marriage, funeral, birthday, joy and other affairs, they often use these vast ancestral halls to imitate Tan as a place for activities. In addition, the ancestral hall is sometimes used as a meeting place by the clan relatives to discuss important matters within the clan.

History of the ancestral hall:

In ancient Chinese Confucian ethics, the concept of family is quite profound, often a village, there is a family or several families with a surname, most of them have their own family temples, worship ancestors.

Generally, the family temple is called the ancestral hall. The ancestral hall is divided into ancestral halls, branch ancestral halls and family ancestral halls. The name of the ancestral hall first appeared in the Han Dynasty.

At that time, the ancestral halls were all built in the cemetery, called the tomb shrine. Zhu Xi, an outstanding physicist in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote "Family Rites and Dust", which established the system of ancestral halls, and called the family temple as an ancestral hall from then on. At that time, the ancestral hall was built, and there was a limit to the rank, and the people were not allowed to set up the ancestral hall.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty (1522-1566 AD), Xu people all joined the sect to build a temple. Later, it is the surname of the emperor or the marquis that can be called a family temple, and the rest is called a ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall is a place where Confucianism worships ancestors or sages. In ancient Chinese Confucian ethics, the concept of family is quite profound, often a village lives with a surname or several families, and more than one family temple is built to worship ancestors.

The ancestral hall has a variety of uses, mainly used to worship ancestors, and also serves as a place for weddings, funerals, birthdays, and celebrations for the grandchildren of each house. Sometimes the clan relatives also often hold in the ancestral hall in order to discuss important affairs within the clan.

The ancestral hall is a place where Han people worship their ancestors or sages. Ancestral halls are used for a variety of purposes. In addition to the purpose of "worshipping the ancestors", the grandchildren of each house usually use these vast ancestral halls for activities when they usually have weddings, funerals, birthdays, joys and other events.

In addition, the ancestral hall is sometimes used as a meeting place by the clan relatives to discuss important matters within the clan. The ancestral hall festival represents the excellent cultural form of the ancestral belief of the Han people, and has great influence and historical value.

In ancient Chinese feudal society, the concept of family was quite profound, and often a village lived with a family or several families, and many of them built their own family temples to worship their ancestors. Ancestral halls are also often found in Japan, and this kind of family temple is generally called "ancestral hall", which is divided into ancestral halls, branch ancestral halls and family ancestral halls. The name "ancestral hall" first appeared in the Han Dynasty, when the ancestral halls were built in tombs, called tomb shrines; Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty "Family Rites" set up the ancestral hall system, and since then called the family temple the ancestral hall.

At that time, there was a limit to the level of the construction of the ancestral hall, and the Han people were not allowed to set up the ancestral hall. To the Ming Dynasty Jiajing "Xu people are all associated with the temple of the sect", and later it is the surname of the emperor or the marquis that can be called the "family temple", and the rest is called the ancestral hall.