Before the ancestral shrine stood a rectangular altar table covered with a red velvet cloth.

神龛下放着长方形的大供桌，挂上了红绒桌帷。

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The Chen family ancestral hall is an enormous compound that serves as an ancestral shrine, a Confucian school and a "chamber of commerce" for the extended Chen family.

陈家大院既是家祠和私塾，也是陈氏宗族的"商会"。

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It has been a sacred place for generations of Japanese, who believe that the spirits of fallen soldiers congregate at the shrine before heading back to their ancestral homelands.

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