Overseas Chinese have also frequently donated funds to restore their ancestral temples. This is one of the reasons the island's temples are so well preserved. To this day, emigrants spread throughout the world still return to Kinmen to worship their ancestors.
華僑也常捐款修砌宗祠，這也是該地宗祠能保存完好的原因之一，至今散居各地的僑民仍常返鄉祭祀先祖。