In Korea, ancestor worship is referred to by the generic term jerye. Notable examples of jerye include Munmyo jerye and Jongmyo jerye, which are performed periodically each year for venerated ...

A ceremony to worship Huangdi, a legendary common ancestor of the Chinese people, is held in Xinzheng City, central China's Henan Province, March 31, 2025. People attended a grand ceremony on Monday ...

A line from my NRO essay on Dante and Holy Week has caught the eye of some readers. In it, I make a wisecrack that ancestor worship is the true religion of the American South. Here, from my book How ...

ZHENGZHOU, China, April 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 31, 2025, the Ancestor Worship Ceremony of the Yellow Emperor in the Year of Yisi was held in Xinzheng, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. The ...

In addition to the classic beliefs known to all, such as Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, there are other beliefs, notably those held by certain African peoples. These beliefs were described by early ...

Excavation work led by the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute team has unearthed a large urban villa dating back to the early New Kingdom, about 1500-1450 B.C.E. The findings at the site of ...

This is the first article in a series about Chinese ghost culture. Tomb-Sweeping Festival, one of the three major ghost festivals celebrated in China, takes place every year on April 5. On this day, ...

Formerly the editor of the Galway literary magazine The Burning Bush, Michael S. Begnal is an accomplished poet, whose collection "Ancestor Worship" was recently published. Though American-born, ...