Martyrs' shrines (China)

They are a kind of Ci Shrine, which is a separate building built to praise the spirit of loyalty and righteousness, and to memorialize the martyrs who died for the country.

This practice of building shrines to honor loyal and martyred soldiers, and then having them named by the Monarch, also spread to other regions in the Chinese cultural sphere, such as the Korean Peninsula and Vietnam.

These include: The ancient martyrs are: Xinzhou Loyalty Ancestral Hall in Shanxi Province, Xinzhou, Lujiazhuang Village, founded at an unknown date, dedicated to Gongsun Pestle and Mortar of the Jin Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn period[6][7]。The Zhou Wang Temple in Wuxi Yixing, Jiangsu Province, is dedicated to Zhou Di, a Jin Dynasty general who died in the Jinxi expedition.

Lin Ching-chuan, a teacher who died trying to save children in the 1992 Taoyuan County tour bus fire, was the first civilian to be inducted into the shrine.

Wen Yung-nan, who died in 1973 while delivering mail in the aftermath of Typhoon Nora, was the first postal worker to be inducted.

[10] The shrine lists the names, origins, birthdates, and places of death of 2,466,532 men, women, children, and various pet animals.

Some overseas Chinese in the East Asian cultural sphere have also built martyrdom shrines in their hometowns, such as the Tangwo Martyrdom Shrine in Tangwo Village, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, which was built by local Chinese to worship the fallen soldiers of the Lone Army of Northern Thailand Third Army.