Tiantan Park is located in the south of Beijing, east of Yongdingmennei Street in Dongcheng District, covering 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. Now it is a world cultural heritage, a national key cultural relic protection unit, a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction and a national civilized scenic tourist area demonstration site.
Tiantan Park is a place where emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasties offered sacrifices to the emperor and prayed for a bumper harvest. 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.
Architectural scale of Tiantan Park
The Temple of Heaven is the largest architectural complex dedicated to heaven in the world. The Temple of Heaven has two walls, which are 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 central axis of the inner altar, and the vault is in the south, which is dedicated to heaven, including vault and 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. The main buildings in the altar are the Hall of Praying for the New Year, the Hall of the Emperor, the Dome, the Imperial Vault, the Palace of fasting, the Hall without Beams, the Promenade and the Double Ring Pavilion. There are also places of interest such as Echo Wall, Sanyin Stone and Seven Star Stone.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Tiantan Park