A Chinese temple is a worship place of the Chinese folk religion/Shenism, where people revere ethnic Chinese gods and ancestors. They can be distinguished into:miào or diàn , simply meaning "temple" and mostly enshrining nature gods or national gods; cí , cítáng , zōngcí or zǔmiào , referring to ancestral temples, mostly enshrining the ancestral gods of a family or clan.
These temples are different from:Taoist temples and monasteries: guàn or dàoguàn;Chinese Buddhist temples and monasteries: sì or sìyuàn
Gōng , meaning "palace" is a term used for a templar complex of multiple buildings, while yuàn is a generic term meaning "sanctuary" or "shrine".
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