An Overview of Ancestor Clan Temple Worship in Zhejiang during the Ming Dynasty
During the Ming Dynasty,ancestor clan temple worship in Zhejiang took three main forms:temple-based rituals associated with hermitages and pavilions(庵观附祭),as well as grave shrines(墓祠),family shrines(家祠),and clan shrines(宗祠).In the early Ming Dynasty,grave worship(墓祭)included grave hermitages(墓庵),pavilions(墓亭),and shrines(墓祠),which were affirmed by scholars and officials.Family shrines generally honored recent ances-tors or the first migrant ancestors and were sometimes considered to violate Confucian rituals,though they were still rec-ognized by scholars.Examples of family shrines can be found in Wenzhou,Chuzhou,Jinhua,and Huzhou.In the mid-Ming period,the Chen clan of Shanyin in Shaoxing established their own ancestral hall and dedicated fields for ancestor worship.The Chen clan of Yiwu in Jinhua also drew attention for setting up an ancestral hall and tablets.In the late Ming period,the practice of establishing ancestral halls continued in Wenzhou.In the Yueqing County of Wenzhou,the Li and Gao clans set up large clan shrines.The Xu clan's shrine in Dongyang,Jinhua,transformed from a well-known local fig-ure shrine to a clan shrine,while the Lu clan in Yuyao,Shaoxing,developed their ancestral shrine from a family shrine into a clan shrine.The Lu clan established sacrificial fields funded by donations from clan members,with the responsibil-ity of ancestor worship rotating among the three branches of the family.
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