Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Single Built Works (hierarchy name)
5. single built works (built environment)
6. [single built works by specific type]
7. [single built works by design]
8. halls (single built works)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment
4. Single Built Works
5. single built works
6. single built works by specific type
7. single built works by function
8. ceremonial structures
9. religious structures
10. religious buildings
11. temples
12. temples by function

Anotations

Scope note:

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).