Temple of Heaven Park, Beijing, China
Temple of Heaven Park is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction, a national key cultural relic protection unit, a patriotic education base, and a world cultural heritage.
Temple of Heaven is in the southeast of Beijing, on the east side of Yongdingmennei Street, Chongwen District. Covering an area of about 2.7 million square meters, it is the largest surviving ancient ritual building complex in China. Today, the Working People’s Cultural Palace on the east side of Tiananmen Square is the place where the emperor worshipped his ancestors, and the Zhongshan Park on the west side is where the god of harvest, the god of harvest, is worshipped.
In the entire city of Beijing, there is an altar of earth in the north, an altar of heaven in the south, an altar of heaven in the east, an altar of sun in the east, and a moon altar in the west. The temple of heaven is the most dazzling and extraordinary. The Temple of Heaven was built in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), and was rebuilt during the Qianlong and Guangxu periods of the Qing Dynasty. It is a place for the emperors of Ming and Qing dynasties to worship the emperor and pray for abundance of grains.
The Temple of Heaven is the general name of the two altars of Liaoqiu and Qigu. There are two layers of altar walls to form an inner and outer altar. The altar wall is round in the south and north, symbolizing the place where the sky is round. The main building is the inner altar, the Qiu altar in the south and the Qigu altar in the north. The two altars are on the same north-south axis, separated by a wall. The main buildings in the Qiuqiu altar include the Qiuqiu altar and the imperial dome, etc. The main buildings in the Qigu altar are the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, the Hall of Emperor God, and the Gate of Prayer for Good Harvest. The famous Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests is in the far north. This is the most magnificent and gorgeous building in the Temple of Heaven, and it is also the place closest to the sky in imagination. The upper and lower three-story roofs of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests are covered with dark blue glazed tiles, symbolizing the sky.
, except for the Tai Chi stone in the center, which is round, each circle is fan-shaped and the number is also a positive number, symbolizing the nine heavens. The tablet of the emperor is placed on the Tai Chi stone, symbolizing that the emperor is above the nine heavens. The annex buildings of the Qiqiu altar include the Emperor Dome and the Echo Wall. If the Tiananmen Gate Tower has become a symbol of China, then the Temple of Heaven Praying Hall is the symbol of the immortal city of Beijing. Indeed, this unparalleled building is the crystallization of wisdom and civilization. It contains such a wealth of knowledge in a volume of 38 meters in height and 30 meters in diameter.
At the same time, she is also the pinnacle of Chinese wooden architecture. Only wood tenon joints, bucket arch brackets, and all wood have completed this stunning masterpiece. Another wonderful feature of the Temple of Heaven is the wonderful echo. Standing in the center of the Mound Hill Altar, you will hear a bright and deep echo from the depths of the earth. This sound seems to come from the center of the earth, and it seems to come from the sky, so people took a mysterious color for it. Name: "Tianxin Stone". There is a wall about 0.9 meters thick around the imperial dome. You stand at one end and talk quietly against the wall. The person standing at the other end can hear very clearly as long as the ears are attached to the wall, and there is a stereo effect. , This is the "Echo Wall". This proves that the Chinese people 500 years ago were able to use acoustic principles.
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