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Spirit tablet
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{{Use American English|date = January 2019}}{{Short description|Ritual object in East Asian ancestor veneration}}{{Use mdy dates|date = January 2019}}- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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{{No sources|date=March 2024|section}}A spirit tablet is often used for deities or ancestors (either generally or specifically: e.g. for a specific relative or for one's entire family tree). Shrines are generally found in and around households (for household gods and ancestors), in temples for specific deities, or in ancestral shrines for the clan's founders and specific ancestors. In each place, there are specific locations for individual spirit tablets for ancestors or one or another particular deity. A spirit tablet acts as an effigy of a specific deity or ancestor. When used, incense sticks or joss sticks are usually burned before the tablet in some kind of brazier or incense holder. Sometimes fruit, tea, pastries, or other offertory items are placed near the tablet to offer food to that particular spirit or divinity. In Chinese folk religion a household will have one or more tablets for specific deities and family ancestors:- One near the front door, and at or around eye level, dedicated to the Jade Emperor. Generally, but not always, this tablet will be above the tablet dedicated to Tudigong. This tablet reads {{zh|labels=no|t=天å®è³ç¦|s=天å®èµç¦}}.
- Some houses will have a tablet at or near the gate which reads {{zh|labels=no|t=éå®ç¦ç¥|s=é¨å®ç¦ç¥}} "this tablet is dedicated to the Door Gods".
- One outside the house at the front door on the ground, dedicated to Tudigong, an Earth Deity. This tablet usually reads {{zh|t=éå£åå°è²¡ç¥ |s=é¨å£åå°è´¢ç¥}} (less commonly {{zh|labels=no|t=éå£åå°ç¦ç¥|s=é¨å£åå°ç¦ç¥}}).
- One in the kitchen, dedicated to Zao Jun, the kitchen god, which reads {{zh|labels=no|c=å®ç¦ç¶å}}.
- One which is dedicated to the Landlord god, Dizhu Shen (similar to Tudigong but not the same). This tablet comes in several forms: the simple form which reads {{zh|labels=no|c=å°ä¸»ç¥ä½}}, or a longer, more complex form which comprises two couplets commonly reading {{zh|labels=no|t=ååå°ä¸»è²¡ç¥ï¼äºæ¹äºåé¾ç¥|s=åå¾å°è´¢ç¥ï¼äºæ¹äºåé¾ç¥}}.
- Two in the house, usually at least one in the living room. These tablets will usually be put in a cabinet, similar to a Japanese butsudan household shrine, and they will be usually for a family's ancestors and some other deity which may or may not be represented by a spirit tablet.
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File:HongKongSpiritSeat.jpg|A doorway spirit tablet dedicated to Tudigong in Hong Kong.File:Memorial Tablet for Spirits in Pingtung County Taiwan.JPG|Tablet in TaiwanFile:ç¥å çä½.jpg|A stone tablet of a tombstone(Name has been blurred for protection)File:å¡å©ä¾é¤.jpg|Memorial tablets used in Nichiren Shoshu BuddhismFile:平平è¼ã®ä½ç.JPG|A Japanese spirit tablet in a ButsudanFile:Bà i vá».jpg|A Vietnamese spirit tablet dedicated to emperor Lê Trang TôngFile:Bà i vá» Võ VÄn DÅ©ng.jpg|A Vietnamese spirit tablet dedicated to Võ VÄn DÅ©ngFile:Dai Viet Ancestral Tablets (15242593880).jpg|A Vietnamese spirit tablet dedicated to ancestors in HoianSee also
- Ancestor veneration in China
- Ancestor worship
- Ancestral shrine
- Butsudan
- Chinese lineage associations and Kongsi
- Chinese kinship
- Shigandang
- Ullambana
- Zhizha and Religious goods store
- Zhong Yuan Festival
- Zupu and Chinese kin
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