The ancestral hall cannot be named, and is usually named after the surname. Ancestral hall is a place where tribesmen worship their ancestors or sages. Ancestral halls have many uses. In addition to worshiping ancestors, these spacious ancestral halls are also used as a place for activities when the grandchildren of each house handle weddings, funerals, birthdays, celebrations and other matters. In addition, clan relatives sometimes use the ancestral hall as a gathering place to discuss important matters within the clan.
In ancient Chinese Confucian ethics, the concept of family is very profound. Often a village is home to one or several families with the same surname. Most of them have their own family temples to worship their ancestors. Ancestral halls can be divided into ancestral halls, branch ancestral halls and family ancestral halls. The name of ancestral hall first appeared in the Han Dynasty. Zhu Xi, an outstanding Neo-Confucian scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote "Family Rites" and established the system of ancestral halls. From then on, family temples were called ancestral halls.