Ancestral Temple: Ancestral Temple, also known as Ancestral Temple, Ancestral Temple and Ancestral Temple. It is a place where Confucianism provides ancestral tablets and holds ancestor worship activities, and it is also a place to store deceased ancestral tablets, hold various ceremonies within the family or handle family affairs.

Public temple: refers to the houses built by the public or a certain class in the past to worship * * *. There are many public temples in China, such as Su Gong Temple, Zhang Gong Temple and Han Gong Temple.

Difference:

1. The ancestral hall is a place where people of the same clan worship their ancestors, and the ancestral hall was built to worship a famous person.

2. The ancestral hall is a building owned by the same clan; Temples are public buildings.

Extended data

According to "Guangze County Records" in the early Qing Dynasty, there are few ancestral halls of all ethnic groups in the local area. In recent decades, those who live together have built temples in cities and rural areas. Sacrifice to the Spring and Autumn Period, show Mu in order, respect merit, respect the old and the virtuous, and have the intention of pursuing distant relatives. "Generally, a family not only has clan ancestral halls and ancestral halls (or' general ancestral halls'), but also houses and branches within the clan, and often has its own branch ancestral halls and ancestral halls to worship direct ancestors.

Most ancestral temple buildings pay attention to "feng shui", usually in the place where ancestors first lived, transforming old houses into ancestral temples; When some families build houses, they often build ancestral halls first.

In the traditional Confucian culture in China, ancestral temple culture is a kind of surname clan culture that can't be underestimated. Due to the deep-rooted idea of carrying on the family line left over from feudal society, the Chinese nation has produced surname culture, and the surname culture of any country in the world has not lasted for thousands of years like China.

Although during the Cultural Revolution, the destruction of capitalism hindered its development to some extent, and even was severely criticized, as a family cultural tradition rooted in people's bone marrow, it still spread rapidly in China, and the most concrete manifestation was ancestral temple culture.

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