lineage temple

lineage temple (plural lineage temples)

1. An ancestral shrine.
   • 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:

     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.