Shashokudan (English spelling) She-ji-tan

Japanese: 社稷壇 - しゃしょくだん（英語表記）She-ji-tan

In China, an altar for worshiping the Sacred God. Since worshiping the Sacred God is an important national ritual, Sacred God altars were set up in the capital, prefectures, prefectures, and prefecture cities. In the capital, the Sacred God altar was set up on the west side of the city's central axis, and the ancestral temple on the east side. Within the Sacred God altar, the Sacred God altar was set up on the east side, and the Sacred God altar on the west side. Both were about 150m square and 1.5m high, with a distance of about 150m between the two altars. Only the Sacred God altar was decorated with red, white, blue, black, and yellow on its surface. In the early Ming dynasty, the theory that Sacred God is an indivisible god was adopted, and the altar was changed to a two-stage altar. The Sacred God altar currently located in Zhongshan Park, west of the Forbidden City, is a successor to the one from the Ming dynasty.

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Japanese:

中国で社稷を祀る壇。社稷を祀るのは国家の重要な祭儀であるため，首都をはじめ府，州，県城にいたるまで社稷壇が設けられた。首都では都市の中軸儀をはさんで社稷壇は西に宗廟は東に設けられ，また社稷壇内では社壇が東，稷壇が西に配されて，ともに方約 150m，高さ約 1.5m，2壇の間隔は約 150m，社壇のみ表面が赤，白，青，黒，黄で装飾された。明代初期に社稷を不可分とする一神説がとられ，二成の壇に変えられた。現在紫禁城の西前方の中山公園にある社稷壇は明代のものを継承したものである。

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