What is the introduction of the Hall of Prayer for the New Year?

The Hall of Prayer for the Year is located in the north of the Temple of Heaven, also known as the Hall of Prayer for the Year. It was originally called the Hall of Praying for the New Year and the Hall of Taixiang. Built in the 18th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1420), it is the earliest building in the Temple of Heaven. After the renovation in the 16th year of Qianlong (175 1), it was renamed the Hall of Praying for the New Year. In the fifteenth year of Guangxu (1889), it was destroyed by thunder and fire, and it was rebuilt as before a few years later.

At present, the Hall of Prayer for the New Year is a circular building with a diameter of 32.72 meters, built on a three-story white marble platform. Gold-plated pyramid-shaped roof, with blue tiles on the top, triple eaves and layers of collection, with a total height of 38 meters. There are 28 Jin Sinan wooden pillars in the hall where people pray for the New Year. The four pillars in the inner circle symbolize the four seasons, the middle circle 12 symbolizes1February, and the outermost circle 12 symbolizes 12 hours and the stars on Sunday.

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. It is a gilded dome with blue tiles and red columns, and a magnificent three-story circular hall with double eaves. 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 built of brick and wood. The Hall of Prayer for the New Year is 38 meters high and 32 meters in diameter. Three-story double eaves shrink upward layer by layer to form an umbrella. 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.

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 center of the hall floor is a round marble with natural dragon and phoenix patterns, which complements the dragon and phoenix caisson at the top of the hall and the dragon and phoenix and seal patterns painted in gold around it. The Leigong column at the top of the temple symbolizes the emperor's "unification of the world". The algae well 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, which is exquisite in structure and rich and luxurious. Echo each other, making the whole hall look very grand.

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.