How to get to the Summer Palace from the Temple of Heaven?

Walk about 138.0 meters from the Temple of Heaven to the West Gate of the Temple of Heaven, take bus No.2, pass two stops and get off at Tiananmen Square East. Walk about 8 1.0 meters to Qianmen subway station, take subway line 2, pass 7 stops, and get off at Xizhimen station. Transfer to Daxing Line of Metro Line 4 in the station, take Daxing Line of Metro Line 4, pass 9 stops and get off at Xiyuan Station; Walk about 346.0 meters to the end of the Summer Palace.

The journey from the Temple of Heaven to the Summer Palace is about 20.24 kilometers, and the whole journey takes about 54 minutes. Transfer twice via 18 station * * *. There are two transfer lines → Metro Line 2 → Metro Line 4 Daxing Line.

Walk about 138.0 meters from the Temple of Heaven to the West Gate of the Temple of Heaven, take bus No.2, pass two stops and get off at Tiananmen Square East. Walk about 8 1.0 meters to Qianmen subway station, take subway line 2, pass 7 stops, and get off at Xizhimen station. Transfer to Daxing Line of Metro Line 4 in the station, take Daxing Line of Metro Line 4, pass 9 stops and get off at Xiyuan Station; Walk about 346.0 meters to the end of the Summer Palace.

Temple of Heaven

Tiantan Park is in the south of Beijing, to the east of Yongdingmennei Street in Dongcheng District. Covers an area of about 2.73 million square meters. The Temple of Heaven was founded in the 18th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1420), and was rebuilt and rebuilt during the reign of Qing Qianlong and Guangxu.

Tiantan Park was a place where emperors offered sacrifices to emperors and prayed for a bumper harvest in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Temple of Heaven is the floorboard of two altars, Qiuqiu and Gucci. It has double altar walls, forming an inner and outer altar. The altar wall is round in the south and round in the north, which symbolizes the round place. The main building is in the inner altar, the ball altar is in the south and the valley prayer altar is in the north. The two altars are on the same north-south axis, separated by a wall. The main buildings of the ball arena include the ball arena, the Imperial Palace, etc. The main buildings of the Valley Altar include the Hall of Praying for the Year, the Palace and the Gate of Praying for the Year.

Main attraction

Hall of Prayer for the New Year [in Beijing]

It is supported by 28 Jin Sinan wooden columns, which are arranged in a circle, and there are 4 "Longjing columns" in the middle, with a height of19.2m and a diameter of1.2m, which support the upper eaves; A two-story eave supported by 12 gold pillar in the middle is painted with exquisite patterns on cinnabar primer by dipping powder and pasting gold. Outside 12 eaves column supports the third eaves; Three floors of ceilings are correspondingly arranged, with dragon and phoenix algae wells in the middle; In the hall, there are beams, dragons, phoenixes and painted seals. There are four "Longjing pillars" in the middle of the Hall of Prayer for the New Year, symbolizing the four seasons of the year. The twelve big columns in the middle layer are slightly thinner than the Longjing column, which are called golden columns, symbolizing 12 months of a year. The 12 column outside is called cornice column, which symbolizes 12 hours of a day. There are 24 Chinese and foreign two-story pillars, symbolizing 24 solar terms.

The Temple of Heaven is the largest architectural complex dedicated to heaven in the world. The Temple of Heaven has two walls, divided into an inner altar and an outer altar. The main buildings are concentrated in the inner altar. The Temple of Heaven is mainly built on the north-south axis of the inner altar, and the dome altar is in the south, which is dedicated to the Temple of Heaven, including the dome and the imperial vault. In the north, there are prayer halls, prayer halls and prayer gates. , across the wall. The two altars are connected by a single bridge (also known as Haiyuan Avenue or Shinto Road) with a length of 360 meters and a width of nearly 30 meters, which is low in the south and high in the north. On both sides of the single bridge is a large area of ancient Berlin. There is a fasting palace on the west wall of the inner altar, which is the residence of the former emperors who fasted. On the west wall of the outer altar, there is a God Music Department and a Sacrifice Center. The main buildings in the altar include the Hall of Prayer for the New Year, Huanggan Hall, Dome, Royal Dome, Zhai Palace, Infinite Hall, Promenade, Double Ring Wanshou Pavilion, and other places of interest, such as Echo Wall, Sanyin Stone and Seven Star Stone.

The Temple of Heaven as a whole embodies the philosophy of "the sky is round and the place is round", and its roof is basically blue glazed tiles, which is influenced by the traditional concept of "sky blue and rehmannia".

The Summer Palace

The Summer Palace, the imperial garden of China in the Qing Dynasty, was originally named Qingyi Garden. It is located in the western suburb of Beijing, with an area of 3.009 square kilometers (including 2.97 square kilometers in the World Cultural Heritage Zone of the Summer Palace) and the water surface accounts for about three quarters. 【 3 1 】 It is adjacent to Yuanmingyuan. It is a large-scale landscape garden with Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain as the background and Hangzhou West Lake as the basis, drawing lessons from the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most well-preserved royal palace and is known as the "Royal Garden Museum".

Before the Qing Emperor Qianlong succeeded to the throne, there were four large royal gardens in the western suburbs of Beijing. In the 15th year of Qianlong (1750), Emperor Qianlong spent 4.48 million taels of silver to honor his mother, Empress Dowager Chongqing, and converted it into Qingyi Garden, forming a royal garden area 20 kilometers from Tsinghua campus to Xiangshan. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Qingyi Garden was burned by the British and French allied forces. In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), it was rebuilt and renamed the Summer Palace as a summer amusement park. In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), the Summer Palace was destroyed by "Eight-Nation Alliance" and its treasures were looted. After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, the Summer Palace was destroyed again during the period of warlord melee and Kuomintang rule.

Main attraction

Suzhou street

Suzhou Street, also known as "Commercial Street", is built in imitation of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River and is located on both sides of Houhu Lake. During the Qingyiyuan period, there were various shops on the shore, such as jade antique shops, silk shops, dim sum shops, teahouses and gold and silver jewelry shops. The shop assistants are all dressed up by eunuchs and maids. The emperor began to open during the parade. Dozens of shops on the shore of Houhu Lake were burnt down by foreign powers in the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860) and rebuilt in 1986.

Longevity hill

Wanshou Mountain belongs to the residual vein of Yanshan Mountain, with a height of 58.59 meters. The building complex is built on the mountain. In front of Wanshou Mountain, a huge main building complex is formed with the Buddha Pavilion with eight sides, three floors and four eaves as the center. From the "Yunhui Yuyu" archway at the foot of the mountain, through Paiyunmen, Ergongmen, Paiyuntang, Dehuitang and Foxiang Pavilion, to the wisdom sea at the top of the mountain, a rising central axis is formed. On the east side, there are stone tablets of "Runwheel Hidden" and "Wanshou Mountain Kunming Lake". On the west side, there are Wu Fangting and Baoyun Pavilion made of copper. There are Tibetan Buddhist buildings and colorful glass pagodas in the back hill. There are Jingfu Pavilion, Chongcui Pavilion, Xieqiuxuan, and Pictorial World Tour Pavilion on the mountain. There is a group of central buildings with large volume and rich image in the middle. This group of large-scale buildings includes the main buildings of the park-Paiyun Hall where the emperor and empress held celebrations and Foxiang Pavilion, a Buddhist temple. Corresponding to the longitudinal axis of the central building complex is a "long corridor", which spans the foothills and extends along the north bank of the lake.