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The ritual has its origins in the Confucian royal ancestral shrine system practiced in premodern China and Korea. [1] It is meant to pay tribute to ancestors and the gods, [ 1 ] [ 3 ] and was seen as one of the most important rituals and duties for the monarchy.
In traditional weddings, the ancestral temple serves a major symbolic function, completing the transfer of a woman to her husband's family. [2] During the wedding rites, the bride and groom worship at the groom's ancestral shrine, bowing as follows: [2] first bow - Heaven and Earth; second bow - ancestors; third bow - parents; fourth bow - spouse
One of earliest record of operating Confucian royal ancestral shrine is found in a history book, Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư of Vietnam. In this book, records of Lý dynasty in 11th century, building a Confucian royal ancestral shrine named 'Thái miếu' (太廟) near Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long are shown. [13]: 190–192
According to UNESCO, the shrine is the oldest royal Confucian shrine preserved and the ritual ceremonies continue a tradition established in the 14th century. Such shrines existed during the Three Kingdoms of Korea period (57–668), but these have not survived. The Jongmyo Shrine was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1995. [1]
The shrine complex is a siheyuan that contains ten buildings that are made of different materials: six of rammed earth blocks, two of wood, and two of straw. The main hall is named "Faxiangtang" (發祥堂) and is used for worship. The left wing was used as the private residence for the Zhang family while the right was leased out to farmers ...
Ancestral shrine; Vietnamese ancestral house; E. Enkaku-ji (Okinawa) L. Lý Bát Đế Temple; S. Spirit tablet This page was last edited on 3 April 2024, at 13:06 ...
A Kong-kài (Taiwanese: kong-kài; Siraya: Kuwa; Taivoan: Kuba, Kuva), literally "the Public Hall" in Taiwanese Hokkien, is a temple or shrine where indigenous peoples like the Siraya, Taivoan or Makatao hold rituals for their ancestral spirits. Historical records indicate that in the past, the Kong-kài served other functions, including a men ...
In 1961, the shrine was renovated to a larger scale. [3] The renovation has changed the architecture from its original Fuzhou style to a northern Chinese style.Similarly to the Japanese campaign, the Kuomintang government used the shrine as a way to legitimize its rule against the ascendant People's Republic of China across the Taiwan Strait [9] and was visited by Chiang Kai-shek.