It is a place where Confucianism provides ancestral tablets, holds ancestor worship activities and engages in family activities. Folk architecture in family ancestral temple can be traced back to the Tang and Five Dynasties. The ancestral hall of Erythrina in Putian City, Fujian Province was built in the late Tang Dynasty. Huang's Ancestral Hall in Lane Village, Hanjiang District, Putian City was built in the first year of Renzong in the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1032).
In the Song Dynasty, Zhu, a famous Neo-Confucianism scholar, advocated family ancestral temple, that is, each family established a four-shrine to worship the four gods of Gao, Zeng, Zu and You. Chenjia Temple in Jianyang, Fujian was built in Yuan Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, ancestral temples were built on a large scale in various places. At this time, the family entered Fujian, and after long-term development and reproduction, the number of ethnic groups increased day by day. It has been popular for some time for various families to build temples for unity.
The famous ancestral temple
Chengjingtang, the first ancestral hall in Jiangnan: Chengjingtang, the first ancestral hall in Jiangnan, was built in the middle of Ming Dynasty. It is 82.3 meters long and 44.3 meters wide, with a total area of 3645.89 square meters. It is the largest ancient ancestral temple found in Jiangxi province, and it has the reputation of the first ancestral temple in the south of the Yangtze River, which is extremely rare in the country.
Chaoyang Wu's Library: Wu's Library was built during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1796- 1820), abandoned during the period of the four modernizations and rebuilt in 2005. From beginning to end, Shangzhai Palace experienced ups and downs, ending with a biochemical brain in the back, and the water in the back ditch bypassed the front, and the "Shuimenzi" wind pool was dug in front, and the stream by the stream was affectionate and sincere. The whole building is a brick-wood structure with three entrances and side doors, showing the shape of a lying lion. The front, middle and back ridges all fly to the roof of Mars, the three mountains are omitted and the walls are inverted.