in Taiwan by the Republic of China government formerly carried an entry for "home citizenship" (本籍). Citizens would usually have their ancestral home (defined through the patriline) stated on these documents, despite having never set foot in their ancestral home. This practice was abolished by the government in the mid-1990s amid the Taiwan localization movement. See also Ancestral shrine and ancestor tablets Bon-gwan Chinese ancestral worship Chinese kin Family register Hukou system Place of origin Registered domicile Footnotes External links 籍貫 (zik6 gun3 | ji2 guan4) : ancestral land; native place - CantoDict Chinese culture