In which city is the Korean ancestral temple listed as a world cultural heritage?

The Korean ancestral temple listed as a world cultural heritage is located in Seoul.

The ancestral temple in Seoul, South Korea is located in Jing Xun Cave, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea, including the main hall and Yongning Hall. It is the ancestral temple dedicated to the king and princess of Lee's Korean dynasty (1392- 19 10). The temple of the ancestors of the royal family commemorates the king and queen of the Lee Dynasty, and also records the people who ratified it after death. This is also the place where sacrificial ceremonies are held.

1995 according to the selection criteria of cultural heritage (4), the ancestral temple in Seoul, South Korea was approved by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to be included in the World Heritage List as a cultural heritage.

The World Heritage Committee rated the ancestral temple as the oldest and best-preserved Confucius Temple. Since16th century, it has kept what we see now. There are also many stone tablets in the ancestral hall, engraved with the teaching of ancient education for members of the royal family. There are music, dance and singing performances at the ceremony, which originated in the14th century and continues to this day.

Layout structure of ancestral temple

These buildings in ancestral halls are usually asymmetrical in position, but they are symmetrical as a whole. According to the order of sacrificial space, the height of eaves and roofs and the thickness of columns in the main hall and Yongning hall are different, and they increase with the increase of gods, so they have unique specifications and indoor space shapes.

There are two special roads in the ancestral hall, one is the road of the soul, and the other is the road of the king as a royal sacrifice. These two roads are paved with blue bricks and stones, so they are different from ordinary roads. The road taken by Wang is slightly higher in the middle than in the left and right. Only the king and the prince can walk in the middle, and the officials walk on the left and right. This shows that the temple architecture in Korea shows dignity and authority.

Compared with the complex and gorgeous ancestral halls in China, the ancestral halls in Seoul are characterized by long facade, simple decoration and few colors, which is said to embody the simple spirit of Confucianism. The main feature of the architectural layout of the ancestral temple in Seoul is that it is built according to the natural terrain, so unlike China, it has a unified central axis.

Please refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Ancestral Temple in Seoul, Korea for the above contents.