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As far as I can make out from conflicting definitions in the references I have access to Miao is a word originally used to describe audience halls for officials and royalty and now used for shrines tutelary temples and and Confucian temples. However Confucian "Temples" are usually compounds including study halls and shrines for deified scholars and ancestors of local clans and sometimes shrines for local deities. I suspect it depends given the on and off hostility between some Taoists and Confucianists on how strict an interpretation of Confucianism is followed and taught at the particular shrine.
Possibly the best place to see Confucian shrines is now Taiwan or South Korea?
I've read but not seen of Indonesian and Malaysian Shrines being called LI TANG which means something like Ritual Halls.
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