Editing Temple name (section)

==Structure==
Most temple names consist of two Chinese characters, unlike the more elaborate posthumous names. In extremely rare cases, temple names could consist of three  characters.

The first character is an adjective, chosen to reflect the circumstances of the monarch's reign. The vocabulary may overlap with that of the posthumous names' adjectives; however, for one sovereign, the temple name's adjective character usually does not repeat as one of the many adjective characters in his posthumous name.

The last character is either "祖" or "宗":<ref>{{Citation |last=Knapp |first=Keith N. |title=Borrowing Legitimacy from the Dead: The Confucianization of Ancestral Worship |date=2009-01-01 |work=Early Chinese Religion, Part Two: The Period of Division (220-589 AD) (2 vols.) |pages=143–192 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789047429296/Bej.9789004175853.i-1564_004.xml |access-date=2024-09-30 |publisher=Brill |language=en |doi=10.1163/ej.9789004175853.i-1564.18 |isbn=978-90-474-2929-6 |quote=This was because nearly every emperor was given a posthumous temple name that either included the character ''zu'' 祖 or ''zong'' 宗, which were meritorious designations that entitled the bearer to receive offerings for the dynasty's duration (according to tradition, each dynasty was only supposed to have one ruler with the posthumous name of ''zu'' and two with that of ''zong'').}}</ref>
* 祖 (''zǔ''; "progenitor"): typically used for founders, either of a dynasty or a new line within an existing one. Temple names bearing this character were also accorded to monarchs with great accomplishments. The equivalent in Korean is ''jo'' ({{Korean|hangul=조|labels=no}}), and ''tổ'' in Vietnamese.
* 宗 (''zōng''; "ancestor"): used for all other monarchs. It is rendered as ''jong'' ({{Korean|hangul=종|labels=no}}) in Korean, and ''tông'' in Vietnamese.