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What Chaoshan culture does Chaoshan ancestral temple contain?

As descendants of immigrants from the Central Plains, Chaoshan people are deeply influenced by the clan culture in the Central Plains, and their awareness of surnames and ancestors is very strong, which is shown by the construction of a large number of ancestral temples.

Ancestral Temple is an important part of traditional architecture in China, and it is a place where people worship their ancestors or sages. Chaoshan people have always attached importance to the construction of ancestral temples, which is a kind of "supporting ancestors" and "cautiously pursuing the distance"; Descendants' "thinking of drinking water from the source" and "returning to the original" are also the embodiment of filial piety.

Chaoshan ancestral temple has distinct Chaoshan characteristics and rich cultural connotations in orientation pattern, external landscape, internal structure and function.