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 was a place where emperors offered sacrifices to emperors and prayed for a bumper harvest in Ming and Qing Dynasties. 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. 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.
Historical evolution:
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.