Always wanted to go to the Temple of Heaven, so went. One person.
A sign of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, many people come here especially. Through the double doors, through the vast expanses of ancient songbailin dense neat, mounted 2.5 m high Danbi Bridge, as the Temple of Heaven, as the great architect of the idea, in the quiet of the green where, in the solemn quiet atmosphere, in the forests in every Department, through the low, blue wall, look up at that same unparalleled Qinian Dian. Seem to walk it from the earth to heaven, let me not help generate awe.
As I always think that Beijing is located in Shanghai, like before, but a metropolis, is learning to move to the international. However, when I again and again loitering in Shanghai Changle Road, Hengshan Road, Wukang way, I can understand, Shanghai, a sign appeared frequently on television is by no means the "Oriental Pearl TV Tower," which is what happened in 1990, while the Vicissitudes of the ten-mile foreign field, it awakens a garden shaded by trees flowing in the walls of houses wound ivy, the flows in the 1931 bar in the old players, the flowing high with London plane trees in the back of the Mass inside the cathedral of God .
Similarly, Beijing's logo, not just Tiananmen Square and the China Central Television tower. It was built 3,000 years the city, its capital 850 years, as the emperor lived in Kyoto, its construction, as large as the Forbidden City, the walls, small courtyard, each temple, the temple for the Buddha, have embodied the profound Chinese culture. I am the second layer along the altar rails Huanqiu turn the ring, watching the sky clouds and the bustling crowd, began to miss the ancient culture of cohesion from the Temple of Heaven.
Temple of Heaven is a place where the emperor heaven pray for good harvest, initially built in the Ming Yongle eighteen years (1420 years). It is located in Beijing, the south is based on "Book of Changes" gossip-dependent. Huan Qiu around the four doors, but also in accordance with "the Book of Changes" in Qian in the four virtues, "Yuan, Hang, Lee, Ching," named. According to "hemispherical dome," said the Temple of Heaven and buildings in order to round as the keynote. The wall is circular. There are square, it is because the first heaven and earth altar formerly known as the Temple of Heaven, co-festival world, until the Jiajing nine years (1530 years), in the north it was built in Fangze Since then, heaven and earth sub-Ji.
Magnificent grand Qinian Dian, dim the face not cover the magnificent past, it has six circular, layer upon layer contraction straight to the sky. China is the stress level, imperial power, and under the Golden Qi Niandian three nets, first, the top is blue, the middle is yellow, the bottom is green. This represents the three levels, is a supreme sky blue, yellow is the emperor - the emperor's representative color, green represents the Minister. Qianlong repair Qi Niandian sixteen years and only when all changed now blue, thus increasing the "days" feeling.
I came to the west Itsuki, green canopies, red walls, the sleeping clock, dark, silent halls of ... ... What is the story took place here? This is the story of the hero overnight accommodation on the outskirts of the forest, in the thinking? Worry about? Boat people's livelihood, the body falls to the Son of Heaven, no shirking. Tired of courtiers do, you can make to grow old and return home to the emperor, while the emperor was unable to retire ... ... said the Yongzheng not live here, fear of being assassinated. Forbidden City, where he built another one Itsuki, only there for fasting. I have noticed that the highest number of emperor worship of heaven, there are 160 many times, seems to leave the well-known in the history of the great emperors, indeed, to the heavens, subjects cherish a deep affection, of course, mixed with the throne of sustainable, non-luobie home selfishness bar.
With regard to Qi Niandian columns, Huan Qiu white marble altar railing of the steps and the number of the emperor into the Temple of Heaven, from the 36 replaced by 18 people carrying Da Jiao Xiao Jiao, the number "9" in constant use, and so on and so on, the Temple of Heaven contains a culture too enriched. Beyond the walls of the Temple of Heaven is Red Dust bottomless. In Beijing, such a development of the population with 15 million in the metropolis, but also retain a so ancient, quiet, mysterious places, really amazing.
Looking at the Whispering Gallery before the advent of people yelling, I think, the influx of crowds, for the Temple of Heaven, what to know about. Meaning of its deep, not as an echo has come to listen to whispering gallery really is. Only Imperial Imperial temporary altar, and now civilians can be patronizing, but the meaning is completely different. When God stepped down, the sacred becomes the entertainment. There is no distinction of rank are equal, yet for God, respect for nature and humility also gave lost.
But instead wants to, is not it only by understanding before we qualified for the Temple of Heaven? Know how, can we understand? We do not understand the meaning of life, came to this world is not the same as eating, dressing, sleeping, count the money, their own entertainment to live their lives. Tourists are so happy, whenever they hear the whispering gallery where friends and relatives really heard the voices of the happy together, that live up to the Temple of Heaven was one, so not it good?
Almost dusk, the Temple of Heaven of the gallery where many of the elderly in the singing. Male and female vocal quartet, flute, accordion, erhu accompanied by recitation, drama, sound loud, attracted me in the past. Watched them happily into every song, from "half bright" to "our great motherland into a socialist era!." What is the singing is not important, it is important that a Zhang rejuvenated face. The Qi Niandian the Golden nearby. I have a time-warped feel. Heaven is the greatest affairs of state, when the Ming and Qing emperors for the common people here praying, there did not think, when the light went to the twenty-first century, his children and grandchildren in their own way to create happiness. Is to abandon the "conservative" religious ceremony, or would like to thank their ancestors accumulated under the Fuze?
Heaven ah, there are tablets on the ancestors, you see here today is no longer solemn ritual, people no longer thirst for the coming year with great devotion of the favorable weather, bumper grain harvest, replaced by a group of happy descendants in order to pay their last respects to the name of the game, you will start a serious brow slightly, the same as happy together?
God has God's realm, there are secular secular joy. In heaven, earth, between, I can not find the answer. Again, I look up to stand the Qi Niandian Under a starry sky, it shines golden in the sunset glory years, standing in lush songbailin, the ever so noble, sacred silence.
This is in August 2003 in Beijing on a Saturday afternoon.
Deep white
I use my eyes to see the hearts of this world
Author: joerose
