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Located in the south of Beijing, the Temple of Heaven was founded in the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), with a length of 1700 meters from east to west and a width of 1600 meters from north to south, with a total area of 2.73 million square meters, four times that of the Forbidden City. The main buildings include the Hall of Prayer for the New Year, the Dome, the Imperial Dome (Echo Wall) and the fasting palace. It is a place where emperors in Ming and Qing dynasties sacrificed to the gods of heaven and earth and prayed for a bumper harvest of grain. With its rigorous architectural layout, peculiar architectural structure and magnificent architectural decoration, it is recognized as the most exquisite and beautiful ancient architectural complex in China and a treasure in the history of world architecture. 1998165438+10 was listed in the World Heritage List in October.
It takes 30 minutes to get to the west gate of the Temple of Heaven by bus No.826 from Qiaoshe. If it's not a solemn archway, it's easy to misunderstand that it's just a public park in Beijing, where everyone sings, does exercises, plays with blankets and practices softball ... When they are fascinated, they suddenly think of the wonderful scene of an old lady playing a blanket in Zhang Yimou's "Olympic bid", and I deliberately look for it before I find that the Temple of Heaven has unlimited scenery. ...
Inside and outside Beijing, there are four ancient altars, namely the Temple of Heaven, Ditan, Ritan and Moon Altar, which are dedicated to the gods of heaven, earth, sun and moon. The Temple of Heaven is the largest and most complete ancient royal architecture dedicated to heaven.
Walking all the way to the Hall of Prayer for the New Year, there are many kinds of pines and cypresses on the path. Last night's rain made the morning air moist, and the smell of grass was everywhere. Birds were singing in the branches ... Soon we arrived at the north gate.
In late autumn, the ginkgo trees on both sides of the north gate archway are golden and brilliant.
The north gate of the Temple of Heaven is the old gate of the Ming Dynasty, also known as the "Valley-praying Gate". It's late autumn, and the ginkgo trees on both sides are golden and brilliant. Through the north gate, you can hear a loud chorus in the distance. Most of these middle-aged and elderly people get together spontaneously and sing their favorite revolutionary songs for a long time, forgetting fatigue and forgetting themselves. I can't help thinking of those people who played and sang for themselves in Kunming Cuihu last year. Perhaps only they are the people who know how to enjoy middle-aged and elderly life in the city!
There are three floors in glee club and three floors outside. I can't help but stop and watch. Their music is turning to "beautiful grassland". It is also a pleasure to have a European follow the rhythm!
The promenade, also known as the seventy-two corridors, is not only the link between the God Library and the God Chef, but also the main road leading to the Hall of Prayer for the New Year. There are seventy-two corridors, also called seventy-two halls. In the old days, it was said that seventy-two demons and ghosts gathered, and pine shadows danced outside the window, which was gloomy and terrible. Now the windowsill of the promenade has long been removed, which has just become a good place for citizens to relax.
The Temple of Heaven has two walls. The northern end of the altar wall is a tall semicircle, and the southern end is a square. This architectural form, which is round in the north, high in the south and low in the south, symbolizes the ancient view that the image of heaven and earth is displayed on the wall, "the sky is round" and "the sky is high and low". The architectural layout of the Temple of Heaven is in the shape of "Hui", and two altar walls divide the altar into an inner altar and an outer altar. Outside the altar, there is a fasting palace, a sacred music department and a sacrifice center. Buildings dedicated to heaven are mainly distributed in the inner altar, with the altar of praying for blessings in the north and the dome altar in the south, which are connected by a single bridge.
New year prayer hall. This is the main building for prayer in the Valley, and it is the place where the emperors held the prayer ceremony in Meng Chun Valley in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The main body is 38 meters, with triple roof and circular hall. The top of the hall is covered with green, yellow in the middle and green in the lower part, which symbolizes the sky, the earth and everything. There are 28 pillars of Catalpa bungeana in the Hall of Prayer for the 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. According to legend, there are four famous ancient building materials in Beijing, namely, Tanzhu of Daphne in the Hall of Prayer for the New Year, three pillars of Daphne in the center of the front hall of the ancestral hall, iron pear wooden pillars of Foxiang Pavilion in the Summer Palace, and plaid fans decorated by Daphne in Hanyuan Hall of Humorous Garden. In the 15th year of Guangxu (1889), on August 24th, the Hall for Praying for the New Year was burned by lightning. Because the pillar is made of ebony, the fragrance floats for several miles. The Hall of Prayer for the New Year that we see now was rebuilt after lightning strike, and its shape and structure are the same as the original.
With the service platform, a tent was temporarily set up here during the sacrifice, and the emperor changed clothes and rested here. Looking back at the Hall of Prayer in the cloakroom, I was filled with emotion.
The single bridge is 360 meters long and 4 meters above the ground. There is an east-west tunnel under the middle of the avenue, so it is called "bridge", which may be the tallest overpass in Beijing. The bridge deck is 30 meters wide, and the middle stone road is the "Lu Shen" dedicated to heaven and earth; The brick pavement on the east side is called the "Imperial Road" dedicated to the emperor, and the accompanying ministers can only take the "King Road" on the west side. The Danbi Bridge is high in the north and low in the south.
It is said that if you stand in front of the Forbidden City at a certain dusk, a certain hour and a certain weather hundreds of years ago, you will find that the prosperous scene of the imperial dynasty reappears hundreds of years ago, with magnificent palaces and long sleeves dancing in the pool, and eunuchs are waiting carefully. . . At this time, I was standing on the stone road, and I strongly felt that the gale hundreds of years ago was being wrapped in a long and narrow time tunnel by a powerful force, and it roared at high speed. At this moment in front of me, it came to an abrupt end! The world suddenly recovered so quietly, there was no floating dust in the air, and all the ups and downs of honor and disgrace emerged like silent movies. Watching people come and go, I lost my joy and sadness. . .