Expenditures which the poor can ill- afford are remorselessly exacted for the maintenance of ancestral worship so that the living are often impoverished for the sake of the dead.
Not only property and those sacred feelings with which all peoples regard their dead are involved but also the vital religious question of ancestral worship.
Ancestral worship" is a phrase of ominous import, suggesting as it does the famous dispute which began to rage early in the eighteenth century and is still raging to-day.
She also shares all posthumous honours, and her spirit, equally with her husband's, is soothed by the ceremonies of ancestral worship.
There is a cognate custom belonging to the ceremonies of ancestral worship, of great importance in the eyes of the Chinese.
That is, in carrying out the obligations he had entered into, such as conducting the ceremonies of ancestral worship, repairing the family tombs, &c.
The general object in adopting children is to leave some one behind at death to look after the duties of ancestral worship.
In order to leave some one behind to look after their graves and perform the duties of ancestral worship.
On the other hand it is equally clear from abundant evidence that self-interest and a desire for material prosperity are very far from being the sole source of ancestral worship.
Either Christianity will never be introduced into China or ancestral worship will be given up, for they are contradictories.
Ancestral worship is the keystone of the religion of the Chinese; "the keystone also of China's social fabric.
Naturally, this festival is the culminating-point of ancestral worship.
The Dominicans and Franciscans condemned the Jesuit toleration of ancestral worship, and for the second time China was thrown back.
For the purpose of ancestral worship, which had been practised from the earliest ages, the Emperor had seven shrines, each with its altar representing various forefathers; and at all of these a sacrifice was offered every month.
Their sacrifices were grateful to the God of Heaven, and the spirits of the departed rejoiced in the honours of ancestral worship.
He is also said to have established the worship of the sun, moon, and five planets, and to have elaborated the ceremonial of ancestral worship.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ancestral worship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
