There's something primeval about performing ancestral rituals in an enclosed grove of trees open to the sky.

Activities here are designed to make learning fun - by mixing in ancestral worshipping rituals, lessons about medicinal plants, storytelling and music.

The Catholic ban on ancestral rituals was lifted in 1939, when the Catholic Church formally recognized ancestral rites as a civil practice.

It was serious stuff, performed in ancestral rituals and enlisted to assert political authority.

But a sense of passage from ancestral ritual to lyrical meditation and finally, a coming to terms with existence is certainly present.

Since then, more emphasis was given to the ancestral rituals.

Secularization among the "totok" meant that their counterparts carry out ancestral rituals to a higher degree, and "peranakan" youth tend to be more religious.

Aluk governs social life, agricultural practices, and ancestral rituals.

The Liji contains three passages where Zengzi questions his teacher about whether personators were needed for ancestral rituals.

The three-day holiday is used by many to return to their hometowns to visit their parents and other relatives, where they perform an ancestral ritual called charye.