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How about Jiang's incense hall style

Jiang's incense hall is a typical ancient Chinese incense hall style.

Because Jiang's incense hall is preserved from the Republican period so the modeling is very simple to retain the original flavor, it is very worthwhile for us to learn from.

The so-called incense hall is the party house for ancestral incense. In the rural areas of Jiaodong, the incense hall mostly refers to the ancestral hall of each family name, and sometimes it also refers to the party house for each family to enshrine their ancestors. In the old days, in rural areas of Jiaodong, usually each family name would establish one ancestral hall, and some family names with too many people would also establish several ancestral halls according to the piece of branch. These ancestral halls, belonging to the family's *** with the property, generally is the establishment of capital, in the village in a prominent position, and the ordinary farmhouse does not have much difference, sitting in the north to the south, but generally there is no compartments, only the main house, but also sets of courtyard walls, repairing the gatehouse, the gatehouse has a flat plate, inscribed with the "ZuDou Qianqiu" or "a certain ancestral hall". A certain ancestral hall". Inside the ancestral hall, there is usually a huge genealogy hanging on the north wall, with each branch clearly listed, and sometimes the north wall cannot be hung, but also to the east and west walls. In front of the genealogy, there is a bar-shaped offering table on which offerings are placed. In front of the table, a futon for kneeling and kowtowing is placed in front of the door. The ancestor worship is usually led by the head of the clan with the participation of the male members, and firecrackers are fired and incense and paper are burned in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, where a huge incense burner and a clay pot for burning paper are usually set up. After the burning of incense and paper and the sounding of firecrackers, so the male children have to kneel down one by one to kowtow in front of the ancestral shrine.