The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests at the Temple of Heaven, Beijing

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Temple of Heaven

Q: Temple of Heavenはどこにありますか？

Temple of Heavenは中国に位置しています。

Q: Temple of Heavenの年代はいつ頃ですか？

Temple of Heavenはおよそ西暦1406年–西暦1912年のものとされています。

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天坛1406 西暦 – 1912 西暦

The Ming dynasty's sacred ritual park in southern Beijing — circular altars and the blue-tiled Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests where emperors offered sacrifices for the year's crops — ranks among the most searched historic sites in Chinese Wikipedia and global travel guides.

Imperial China Early Modern Ming Qing

関心 83

所在地

中国

39.88°N · 116.41°E · アジア

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Founded

1406–1420 CE under the Yongle Emperor (Ming)

Hall rebuilt

Present Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, 1890–after 1889 fire

Park area

~273 ha walled ritual landscape

UNESCO

Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar (1998)

Graphite pencil sketch banner of Temple of Heaven

“The Temple of Heaven is the best-preserved imperial cosmological landscape in East Asia — architecture, ritual, and urban axis fused to express Ming–Qing state ideology.”

所在地

概要

The Temple of Heaven (Tiantan) occupies a walled park of about 273 hectares in the Dongcheng district of Beijing, south of the Forbidden City along the city's central axis. The Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty created the complex in the early 15th century as a counterpart to his new imperial palace: where the Forbidden City was the emperor's earthly residence, Tiantan was where he performed rites as Son of Heaven.

The architectural climax is the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (Qinian Dian), a triple-gabled circular wooden hall raised on a three-tier marble terrace, rebuilt in its present form after a lightning fire in 1889. The emperor prayed here at the winter solstice for abundant harvests. To the south, the Circular Mound Altar (Huanqiu Tan) and the Imperial Vault of Heaven (Huangqiong Yu) served complementary rituals connecting square earth and round heaven.

Qing rulers maintained and adjusted the rites until the abdication of 1912. The park opened to the public in 1918 and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 as part of a serial inscription with the Forbidden City and Summer Palace. Morning tai chi among cypress trees and the sight of the blue-roofed hall against Beijing smog or snow make it one of China's most photographed monuments.

重要性

The Temple of Heaven is the best-preserved imperial cosmological landscape in East Asia — architecture, ritual, and urban axis fused to express Ming–Qing state ideology. Its timber hall and marble altars are the reference point for understanding how Chinese emperors performed agricultural sovereignty through sacrifice rather than military conquest alone.

証拠と解釈

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確立された事実

Ming and Qing ritual manuals prescribe winter solstice ceremonies at the Circular Mound Altar and Hall of Prayer.
Architectural survey confirms triple-gabled dougong bracket hall on marble terrace consistent with late imperial workshops.

学術的推論

Placement on Beijing's south–north axis links Tiantan cosmologically to the Forbidden City — inferred from urban planning texts.

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出典

Chinese Architecture — Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman (2019)
UNESCO — Temple of Heavenリンク

よくある質問

Temple of Heavenはどこにありますか？

Temple of HeavenはChinaに位置しています。

Temple of Heavenの年代はいつ頃ですか？

Temple of Heavenはおよそ1406 西暦 – 1912 西暦のものとされています。

Temple of Heavenはどの文明に関連していますか？

Temple of HeavenはMing, Qing文明に関連しています。

Temple of Heavenが重要な理由は何ですか？

The Temple of Heaven is the best-preserved imperial cosmological landscape in East Asia — architecture, ritual, and urban axis fused to express Ming–Qing state ideology.

Temple of Heavenはユネスコ世界遺産ですか？

はい — Temple of Heavenはユネスコ世界遺産に登録されています。

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