Chinese Taoist temples divide institutionally in a way that determines who may live in them. A zisunmiao, a descendants' temple, is the property of a particular master's line or family, transmitted to disciples or heirs, and outsiders have no automatic claim on it. A conglin, a grove temple or public monastery, belongs to the tradition at large: any properly ordained Quanzhen cleric arriving with valid credentials can present them and expect food and lodging, and the great public monasteries such as the White Cloud Temple in Beijing operate on this basis with elected or appointed abbots rather than hereditary ones. The distinction maps loosely onto the two branches, since Quanzhen developed the public monastery model. Zhengyi priests, meanwhile, frequently have no temple at all: they operate from an altar in their own home, are engaged by families and communities for specific rituals, and are best understood as ritual specialists on call rather than temple staff.