Temples dedicated to deified ancestors in Chinese culture.
1 So it is now in the imperial ancestral temple in Peking.
2 The first great building taken in hand was the ancestral temple .
3 In the ancestral temple and at court his speech was full, but cautious.
4 When he entered the ancestral temple of the State, he asked about everything.
5 Full of harmony was he in his palace; Full of reverence in the ancestral temple .
6 Red, we have seen, was the proper colour for victims in the ancestral temple of Kâu.
7 The feast is spread in the ancestral temple .
8 That is, there where the ancestral temple and other grand buildings of Hâo had once stood.
9 The cup and the spirits would be used by the earl when sacrificing in his ancestral temple .
10 The ancestral temple produced the impression of majesty, but did not dispose one to rest on it.
11 This piece may have been used when the king was dismissing his distinguished guests in the ancestral temple .
12 And that the prince keeps this tortoise carefully enclosed in a chest on the altar of his ancestral temple .
13 The lady is introduced arrayed in the gorgeous robes worn by the princess of a state in the ancestral temple .
14 By their great sacrificial ceremonies the ancients served God; by their ceremonies in the ancestral temple they worshipped their forefathers.
15 Here, as there, the great religious edifice, the ancestral temple , takes precedence of all other buildings in the new city.
16 But in the ancestral temple , and at Court, he spoke with the fluency and accuracy of a debater, but ever guardedly.
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