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By Grace Cohn and Elizabeth Zona The Temple of Heaven By Grace Cohn and Elizabeth Zona

History In the Forbidden City Constructed in 1420 under the rule of Ming emperor Yongle Called the Altar of Heaven and Earth Symbolizes relationship between Earth and Heaven Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties would go here to worship and pray for a good harvest In 1530, Emperor Jiajing decided decided to make separate the sacrifices to Earth and to Heaven, so he constructed the Circular Mound Altar for sacrifices specifically to Heaven The Altar of Heaven and Earth then became called the Temple of Heaven Was reconstructed in 1749 by Qing emperors Qianlong and Guangxu

Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest Also known as the Altar of Prayer Completely made of wood, doesn’t even have nails Inside is covered with ornate hand paintings Houses the “Dragon and Phoenix stone”, which legend says originally just had a phoenix pattern, and a dragon was on the ceiling. They fell in love and the dragon went down to visit the phoenix one day, when the emperor came in to pray and knelt on the stone while the dragon was visiting, pressing him in forever. Triple gabled circular building

Imperial Vault of Heaven Single gabled circular building Holds the tablets of the Gods, which are traditional tablets used in the Ceremony of Worshipping Heaven Three feats of Sound Architecture: Echo wall, allows people to stand 633 feet away on either side and be able to hear the other’s whisper Three Echo Stones, standing on the first facing the Vault of Heaven, you hear one echo, standing on the second and third you hear two and three echoes, respectively Dialogue Stone: 18th stone from the Vault of Heaven, have a friend stand on the farthest corners in East/West direction and you can have a dialogue with them. Forms a perfect equilateral triangle with these points.

The Circular Mound Altar Altar placed on top of three layers of circular marble Significance of the number 9, number of columns is a multiple of 9, numbers of slates used are multiples of 9, diameter is a multiple of 9, etc. Two walls: round inner wall to represent heaven, square outer wall to represent earth Special shape allows an amplification of volume

Temple of Heaven Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mo6_cskvhQ