What is the Hall of Prayer for the New Year in the Temple of Heaven for?

The Hall of Prayer for the Year is the main building of the Temple of Heaven, also known as the Hall of Prayer for the Year, and it was the Hall of Prayer for the Year of Emperor Meng Chun in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is a three-story circular hall with double eaves, a gilded roof, blue tiles and red columns and brilliant paintings. The new year's prayer hall adopts the superstructure structure. The main hall is built on a three-story white marble platform, surrounded by a 6-meter-high white stone fence, which is an altar for praying for the valley. It's quite spectacular and magnificent. The Hall of Prayer for the New Year is made of brick and wood, with a height of 38 meters and a diameter of 32 meters. Three-layer double eaves shrink upward step by step to make an umbrella shape. The building is unique, without long purlins and nails. Twenty-eight huge nanmu pillars are arranged around to support the weight of the temple roof. The Hall of Praying for the New Year is designed according to the concept of "respecting heaven and respecting god". The hall is round, symbolizing the round sky. The tiles are blue, symbolizing the blue sky. [2]

The internal structure of the Hall of Prayer for the New Year is unique: the roof is supported by nanmu columns and purlins instead of girders and purlins. The number of pillars in the temple is also said to be built according to the astronomical phenomena. The four "Longjing Columns" in the inner circle symbolize spring, summer, autumn and winter all the year round; The twelve "golden pillars" in the middle symbolize the twelve months of the year; The twelve "eaves columns" on the periphery symbolize twelve hours a day. The middle layer and the outer layer add up to 24, symbolizing 24 solar terms a year. The total number of * * * 28 on the third floor symbolizes 28 stars in the sky. Together with the eight copper pillars at the top of the pillars, there are 36 * * *, symbolizing the 36 highest days. In the middle of the floor of the temple is a round marble with a natural dragon and phoenix pattern, which echoes the dragon and phoenix and seal patterns drawn in gold at the top and around the temple. six

Hall of Prayer for the New Year [in Beijing]

The Leigong column under the treasure dome symbolizes the emperor's "unification of the world". The caisson in the Hall of Prayer for the New Year consists of two floors and a ceiling, with golden dragon and phoenix relief in the middle. The structure is exquisite and luxurious, which makes the whole hall look magnificent.

The seat of the Hall of Prayer for the Year is a circular altar of the Valley of Prayer for the Year, which is 6 meters high and has three floors. There are low walls around the altar, and firewood stoves, mounds, stoves and service tables are set in the southeast corner. In the north of the altar, there is Huang Gan Hall, which is five rooms wide. Originally, the ancestral tablets were placed, but later they moved to the ancestral temple. Next to the altar, there are ancillary buildings such as the door for praying for the new year, the god library, the god chef, the sacrificial pavilion, the sacrificial road and the promenade. There is a seven-star stone in the square to the south of the promenade, which was placed in Jiajing period.