The Temple of Heaven
- Chinese name:天坛公园
- Foreign name: Temple of Heaven
- Location: No.1, Tiantan Road, Dongcheng District, Beijing
- Location: 北京市东城区天坛路甲1号
- Opening hours: April 1st-October 31st 06:00-21:00
- Attraction level: AAAAA level
- Ticket price: 15.00 yuan
- Area: about 2730000 m²
- Construction time: 1420
- Suggested play time: 1-2 hours
- Official Website: http://www.tiantanpark.com/
- Tel:(+86) 010-67012483
- Virtual Tour: https://v.visitbeijing.com.cn/pano/1_1/index.html
The Temple of Heaven
The Temple of Heaven is a special altar for the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties to worship the sky, pray for rain and pray for a good harvest. It is a famous ancient building in the country. The area of the altar is circular in the north and square in the south, implying “the sky is round and the place is round”. The entire Temple of Heaven is divided into two parts: the inner altar and the outer altar.
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Regional Quick Facts
The inner altar is divided into two parts by the palace wall, the north and the south. The north is the “Prayer for Grain Altar”. Gate, Divine Kitchen, Sacrifice Pavilion, Seventy-two Corridor, etc.
In the south is the “Circular Mound Altar”, which is an open-air three-story circular stone altar. It is the place where the emperor worships heaven on the winter solstice. .
Connecting the two altars is a masonry platform with a length of 360 meters, a width of 28 meters and a height of 2.5 meters. long road.
The exquisite design of the three-tone stone
When visiting the Temple of Heaven, in addition to admiring the exquisite architecture of the various halls and following the grand scenes of ancient emperors offering sacrifices to heaven, the ingenious designs such as the Echo Wall and the Three-tone Stone also make people marvel at the wisdom of the ancients.
On the stone road from the front of the Emperor’s Vault of Heaven to the middle of the gate, the three stone slabs from north to south are called Sanyin stones. When the doors and windows of the Imperial Vault of Heaven are closed and there are no obstacles nearby, if you stand on the first stone slab and clap your hands, you will hear a single echo; Clap your hands, and you can hear three echoes.
Learn about the culture of worshiping heaven
A simple visit may not always have a specific concept of the ancient emperor’s ritual of offering sacrifices to heaven. It doesn’t matter, the Etiquette Hall of Worshiping Heaven, located in the West Side Hall of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, introduces the evolution process of Chinese rituals for worshiping heaven in detail, focusing on the etiquette of the ceremony of worshiping heaven in Qing Dynasty, including various ritual vessels and procedures for worshiping heaven, etc. Among them, “Picture of the Thirteenth Year of Emperor Qianlong in Qing Dynasty” shows the style and appearance of the Chinese royal guard of honor for the first time, which is especially wonderful and should not be missed.
The Jitian Music and Dance Hall located in the East Side Hall of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests uses chime bells, chime chimes and other musical instruments of Zhonghe Shaoyue in the Qing Dynasty, combined with text and pictures, to comprehensively introduce the history, music and dance system, management organization and The music scene during the praying valley ceremony enables visitors to have an intuitive and comprehensive understanding of the music and dance for offering sacrifices to heaven.
team tour guides
The scenic spot provides team tour guides in Chinese and English, located at the south gate of the park. 100 yuan for less than 5 people in Chinese; 200 yuan for more than 5 people in Chinese;
An additional 50 yuan will be charged for the English explanation on the basis of the Chinese fee.
Need to book two days in advance.
How To Get To The Temple of Heaven
By Taxi
from The Palace Museum to The Temple of Heaven, it will take about 16 min for car ride; if walking:1 hour 15 min
Practical Chinese:for taxi driver pls take us to BeiJing The Temple of Heaven 请拉我们到北京天坛By Subway
Destination station (Line 5): Tiantan East Gate Station Destination station exit: D Southwest Exit ; Frequency: Line 2, 3 minutes/shift; Line 5, 3 minutes/shift
How to get to the scenic area after getting off the bus: Walk 490 meters along Qinian Street, turn right and cross the sidewalk to the end
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