Also, there are cases where mausoleums were erected not only to perform memorial rites in honor of ancestors but also to the spirit of someone people admired, as seen in numerous mausoleums sacred to the memory of Confucius or Guan Yu around the country.
また、孔子を祀る廟や関羽を祀る廟が各地に多数存在するように、祖先の霊だけではなく、民衆が敬愛する対象の廟を建立して祭っている事もある。