







Ancestral temple
"The Son of Heaven is sovereign Lord of all" Dong Zhuo continued "but without awe-inspiring dignity he can not do honor to the ancestral temple or the sacred shrines."
Its role was limited in ancestral temples to mediate the relation between gods and men.

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Open the tool →宗庙 (zōng miào) means “Ancestral temple”.
宗庙 is pronounced zōng miào in Mandarin Chinese.
“Ancestral temple” is 宗庙 (zōng miào) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 宗庙, each with pinyin and an English translation.