Excerpt from The Fall of the Nan Soung, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale of the Mogul Conquest of China
Some distance without the city of Hancheyu-fu was one of those buildings denominated in Chinese Tsong-miao, and by European travellers, "hall of ancestors," erected for the purpose of honouring the progenitors of a family the members of which, at certain seasons of the year - in spring and autumn - meet together to perform the ceremonies prescribed by the "tribunal of rites." At these periods, some times upwards of two thousand individuals are collected under the same roof, varying in rank from the highest official to the lowest artizan.
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