ancestral hall

ancestral hall (plural ancestral halls)

1. An ancestral shrine.
   • 1986, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, James L. Watson, editors, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940‎^[1], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51:

     Wu Hai, whose objections to contamination of the patrilineal line were cited above, described an ancestral hall (tz'u-t'ang) of the Lins of Lo-t'ien (Hupei).