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Ci shrine
Chinese祠ほこら

A Ci shrine, (祠ほこら), is a kind of religious building that originated in China. They are used for honoring people and ancestors.[1]

They are a kind of Chinese temple and are different from Miao Shrines which honor deities instead of people and ancestors.[2]

Ci shrines were often built by the public to worship public figures, sometimes living ones. In the Ming dynasty, the people of Teng County built a ci shrine to the life of Zhao Bangqing. Hero shrines were built to heroes who died for the country.[3] The Chinese hero cult honors such heroes at Ci shrines.[4]

The character for Ci shrine

Since ci and miao are similar, sometimes they are mixed together. Some ci shrines are dedicated to Confucian, Daoist, or Buddhist deities such as Wong Tai Sin Temple.[5]

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  1. ↑ 教育きょういく部ぶ,卡米爾なんじ. "教育きょういく百科ひゃっか | 教育きょういく雲くも線上せんじょう字典じてん". pedia.cloud.edu.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  2. ↑ "二に、道教どうきょう宮みや廟びょう組織そしき或ある管理かんり章程しょうてい範はん例れい－適用てきよう管理人かんりにん制せい" (PDF). Cabu.kcg.gov.tw. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  3. ↑ 蔡錦堂どう:〈從したがえ神社じんじゃ忠ちゅう烈れつ祠ほこら－－戰前せんぜん與あずか戰後せんご台灣たいわん「國家こっか宗むね祀まつ的てき轉換てんかん」〉。
  4. ↑ "義民ぎみん爺じい - 新北しんきた市し客きゃく家か民俗みんぞく信仰しんこう館かん". www.hakka-beliefs.ntpc.gov.tw. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  5. ↑ https://archive.today/20220920045407/https://eastweek.my-magazine.me/main/3782
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