<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"><dc:title xml:lang="en">cítáng</dc:title><dc:identifier>http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en?tema=31483920</dc:identifier><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher xml:lang="en">Getty Institute</dc:publisher><dcterms:created>2026-03-30 20:43:01</dcterms:created><dcterms:isPartOf xsi:type="dcterms:URI">http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en</dcterms:isPartOf><dcterms:isPartOf xml:lang="en">Tesaurus d&apos;Art i Arquitectura</dcterms:isPartOf><dc:format>text/html</dc:format> <dcterms:alternative xml:lang="en">ancestral hall</dcterms:alternative> <dcterms:alternative xml:lang="en">ancestral temple</dcterms:alternative> <dcterms:alternative xml:lang="en">sacrificial hall</dcterms:alternative> <dc:description xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Citang is a type of building for performing sacrificial rituals to family ancestors, well-known people, religious figures, and nature spirits in traditional China. Citang 祠堂 is a compound word, in which ci means “sacrifice” and can be used as a verb, while tang is a noun indicating a type of building. The term citang as a whole means “a building used for worship” and was first found in the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE-9 CE) history Han shu (Ban 1962, 2948; 3085). ]]></dc:description></metadata>