It refers to the rectangular table where incense burners, memorial tablets, and other tributary food and flowers are placed. It is a common display in Chinese houses, used for religious or ancestral rituals.
Image of a xiang’an worshipping both Buddhist and Daoist gods.
Pictorial instructions of arranging a xiang’an to welcome the god (by Xin heshun baohe Temple 新和順保和宮 in Kaohsiung 高雄, Taiwan 台灣).
