Abstract—The paper has taken the Zhixi Village for example,
the most typical one of Minxi Hakka villages, analyzing the
changes of such villages from the beginning of development of
the patriarchal clan, then further discussing the impact of
Ancestral Temple layout on the village texture form and finally
making a conclusion of the types and characteristics of the
Ancestral Temple buildings.
Index Terms—The ancestral temple, village form, Minxi
Hakka areas, Zhixi village.
Yongqian Qiu is with the Department of Architecture, National Cheng
Kung University, Taiwan (e-mail: yuengqiang@gmail.com).
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Cite: Yongqian Qiu, Ping-Sheng Wu, and Min-Fu Hsu, " Study on the Ancestral Temple of Minxi Hakka Areas in
China and Its Influence on the Village Form – Example for
Zhixi Village," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 808-811, 2015.