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Ancestor veneration in China and Chinese kin

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Difference between Ancestor veneration in China and Chinese kin

Ancestor veneration in China vs. Chinese kin

Chinese ancestor worship, or Chinese ancestor veneration, also called the Chinese patriarchal religion, is an aspect of the Chinese traditional religion which revolves around the ritual celebration of the deified ancestors and tutelary deities of people with the same surname organised into lineage societies in ancestral shrines. A Chinese kin, lineage or sometimes rendered as clan, is a patrilineal and patrilocal group of related Chinese people with a common surname sharing a common ancestor and, in many cases, an ancestral home.

Similarities between Ancestor veneration in China and Chinese kin

Ancestor veneration in China and Chinese kin have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Ancestral shrine, Chinese folk religion, Chinese lineage associations, Confucianism.

Ancestral shrine

An ancestral shrine, hall or temple, also called lineage temple, is a Chinese temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in the Chinese traditional religion.

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Chinese folk religion

Chinese folk religion (Chinese popular religion) or Han folk religion is the religious tradition of the Han people, including veneration of forces of nature and ancestors, exorcism of harmful forces, and a belief in the rational order of nature which can be influenced by human beings and their rulers as well as spirits and gods.

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Chinese lineage associations

Chinese lineage associations, also kinship or ancestral associations, are a type of social relationship institutions found in Han Chinese ethnic groups and the fundamental unit of Chinese ancestral religion.

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Confucianism

Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life.

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Ancestor veneration in China and Chinese kin Comparison

Ancestor veneration in China has 26 relations, while Chinese kin has 31. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 7.02% = 4 / (26 + 31).

References

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