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Chinese religious architecture—Buddhist, Daoist, and, in a broad sense, Confucian structures—is generally consistent in its principles of symmetry around a courtyard and placement on a central axis, and buildings associated with all three practices were constructed using the same techniques and materials. Mosques are also architecturally similar to the temples of the other religions; only Christian churches, surviving examples of which date only as early as the beginning of the 20th century, retain their Western forms. For Chinese ancestral shrines and altars, see Shrine (i), §V, 1 and Altar, §IV, 1(i). See also China; China: Architecture. According to tradition the first Buddhist temple in China was the Baima Monastery (Baima si), outside Luoyang, Henan Province, said to have been built during the Eastern Han period (25–220 ce) by Emperor Mingdi (reg 57–75 ce) for the first Indian monks who arrived in the country. With the division of China during the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (...