5. The sacrifices in the ancestral temples of the son of Heaven and the feudal princes were that of
those terms. The following ground-plan of an ancestral temple of a king of Kâu is given in the plates of the Khien-lung edition of the Lî Kî:—after Kû Hsî. I introduce it here with some condensations.
| Grand Ancestor | ||
| King Wăn | King Wû | |
| Great Grandfather | G. G. Grandfather | |
| Father | Grandfather | |
Entering at the gate on the south, we have, fronting us, at the northern end, the fane of the grand ancestor to whom, in the distant past, the family traced its line. South of his fane, on the right and left, were two fanes dedicated to kings Wăn and Wû, father and son, the joint founders of the dynasty. The four below them, two on each side, were dedicated to the four kings preceding the reigning king, the sacrificer. At the back of each fane was a comparatively dark apartment, called khin (寢) where the spirit tablet was kept during the intervals between the
