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Ancestral home | |||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 籍貫 | ||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 籍贯 | ||||||||||||||||
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Chinese | 祖籍 | ||||||||||||||||
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Chinese | 老家 | ||||||||||||||||
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In Chinese culture, an ancestral home is the place of origin of one's extended family. It may or may not be the place where one is born. For instance, Lien Chan was born in Xi'an, but his ancestral home is Tainan.