Meanings
nounlineage temple (plural lineage temples)
plural lineage temples
- An ancestral shrine.
People in the Li lineage recall that the Li lineage temple was built in 1922; a plaque for Li ancestors hung in the temple hall and a stone stele in the yard recorded information about the temple's construction.
2018, Lin Juren, Xie Yuxi, edited by Linda Grove, A Century of Change in a Chinese Village: The Crisis of the Countryside, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 66
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