Characteristics of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing

Features of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing:

1. The Temple of Heaven is located in Beijing, in the southeast of the former outer city of Beijing. Located in the south of the Forbidden City, east of Zhengyangmen. It was founded in the 18th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1420).

2. The place where the emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasties in ancient China sacrificed to heaven. The total area is 273 hectares. It is a building used by emperors in Ming and Qing Dynasties to "worship heaven" and "pray for the valley".

3. Temple? Yes? Paradise) 196 1, the State Council announced the Temple of Heaven as a "national key cultural relics protection unit". 1998 was recognized as a "world cultural heritage" by UNESCO.

Extended data:

According to historical records, the official activities of offering sacrifices to heaven and earth can be traced back to the Xia Dynasty, which was still in a slave society in 2000 BC. The ancient emperor of China called himself "the son of heaven" and was very devout to heaven and earth. The Temple of Heaven was built in imitation of Nanjing in the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420) to worship the afterlife of the emperor.

In the ninth year of Jiajing (1530), Emperor Jiajing listened to the minister's words: "The ancients worshipped heaven in the round mound and the earth in the square mound. Hilly people, hills on the ground in the southern suburbs, are as high as the sky. Fangqiu is a hill in the northern suburbs of Zezhong, and the hill goes down to the ground. " So I decided to divide the sacrifices into heaven and earth, build a dome to worship heaven in the south of the Great Sacrifice Hall, and build another Fang Zetan to worship heaven outside the Anding Gate in the north city.

In the 13th year of Jiajing (1534), Waqiu was renamed Tiantan and Fangze Ditan. After the temple was abandoned, it was turned into a prayer altar. In the seventeenth year of Jiajing (1538), the altar of praying for the valley was abandoned, and another hall was built on it in the nineteenth year, which was completed in the twenty-fourth year. In the 16th year of Qing Qianlong (175 1), it was renamed Hall of Praying for the New Year. Later, it was repaired and expanded many times.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing Temple of Heaven