The phrase "ancestral temple" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a temple that is significant to one's ancestors or heritage, often in a cultural or religious context.
Example: "The family gathered at the ancestral temple to honor their forebears during the annual festival."
Alternatives: "heritage temple" or "forebear temple".
Once there, the couple spontaneously visited the Chen ancestral temple, where Mr. de Jong spontaneously proposed.
THE day the Wu clan formally reopened its ancestral temple was a festive one.
For Chi Yugao, the battered ancestral temple next to his home is a constant reminder of the neglected family glory he hopes to restore.
However, more imaginative adaptations are also under way, like Zhang Huan's version of the Baroque opera "Semele," which was set in a genuine 450-year-old Chinese ancestral temple and included Mongolian long singing, a Tibetan funeral song and some racy scenes involving monks.
More imaginative adaptations are also under way, however, like Zhang Huan's version of the Baroque opera "Semele," which was set in a genuine 450-year-old Chinese ancestral temple and included Mongolian long singing, a Tibetan funeral song and some racy scenes involving monks.
The imperial ancestral temple was built in Hangzhou later that same year, a sign that the court had in practice established Hangzhou as the Song capital without a formal declaration.
Outsiders can be seen on weekends wandering the alleyways to gawk at some of the two-story ancestral temples built with merchant money.
As a component of architectures, stone reliefs prevailing during the Han Dynasty (206BC AD220) were usually found in coffin chambers and ancestral temples.
In my case study of the re-production of traditional ancestral temples in rural areas of Xincheng Town, southeast China, I show that rural people develop great initiatives in promoting the transformation of lineage culture by drawing on their experiences of the changing rural environment.
The state-sponsored cultural project, which seeks to convert traditional ancestral temples into cultural halls, memorials and elderly activity centers and to develop a modern, civilized and socialist countryside, is in fact incorporated into the self-development of modern lineage culture by local people.
These ceremonies encompassed: the sacrificial rites performed at ancestral temples to express humility and thankfulness; the ceremonies of enfeoffment, toasting, and gift exchange that bound together the aristocracy into a complex web of obligation and indebtedness; and the acts of politeness and decorum such things as bowing and yielding that identified their performers as gentlemen.
