Where is the Tiantan in Beijing?

The Temple of Heaven is in the south of Beijing, to the east of Yongdingmennei Street in Dongcheng District.

Covers 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. It is the place where emperors of Ming and Qing dynasties offered sacrifices to the emperor and prayed for a bumper harvest of grain. The Temple of Heaven is the floorboard of two altars, Qiuqiu and Gucci. It has double altar walls, forming an inner altar and an 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. The main buildings of the ball arena include the ball arena, the Imperial Palace, etc. The main buildings of the Valley Altar include the Hall of Praying for the Year, the Palace and the Gate of Praying for the Year.

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After the abdication of the Qing emperor, the Temple of Heaven no longer had the function of offering sacrifices to heaven, and a large area of the altar was occupied by outsiders. Since then, Guangli Gate has been closed, the road of sacrifice has been broken, the altar wall has been in ruins, and ancient cultural relics have not been repaired.

195 1 year, Beijing garden machinery factory was established here, mainly producing and maintaining various garden facilities. In 2007, Beijing Garden Machinery Factory was cancelled and included in Tiantan Park. Its buildings are reserved for office buildings. 20 15 in order to avoid further damage to cultural relics, the Temple of Heaven Park vacated the Guanglimen, which used to be a warehouse, and adopted protective isolation and sealing measures.

In order to cooperate with the overall application for Beijing's central axis, Tiantan Park has completed the evacuation of residents in the park's core tourist areas, such as Garden Machinery Factory, and carried out environmental renovation and cultural relics restoration in the vacated areas. Guanglimen and the altar wall finally came out, and the "road around the altar" of the Temple of Heaven was completely opened, and the altar of the Temple of Heaven was completely presented to tourists for the first time.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing Temple of Heaven