目录 The Historical Belling From Northern Important Strategic Town to Political Centre Zhaukoudian & Upper Cave the Mysterious Cranium The Great Wall, the Great Wonde Yuandadu Site, the Old City Wall The City Wall and Gate in the Ming and Qing Dynasties,“inner and Outer Seven” Central Axis of Beijing, Authoritative Show of theImperial Palace Architecture TianAn Men and the Buildings in the TianAn MenSquare Ancient Observatory Lugou Bridge The Imperial Beijing Forbidden City and the Palace Museum Wangfu, the Princes Residence in Beijing The Imperial Ancestral Temple, the Temple of Heaven and Other Sacrificing Places Summer Palace and Yuanrningyuan Bei Hai (The North Sea) and Jing Shah (Scenic Hill) The Imperial College and Confucian Temple The Ming Tombs, Royal Tombs of Ming Dynasty Xiang Shan (Fragrant Hills), Be!jing Botanical Garden, Eight Major Places The Folk Custom of Beijing Hutong, Capillary of the City The Courtyard House, Beijinge Own Little World Tianqiao, Qianmen, Dashilan Liulichang, Writing Drifting Fragrance Panjiayuan. Baoguosi and Other Antiques City The Cultural Bejing Beijing Opera Cross-Talk and Folk Art Forms Temple Fair and Othe Library and Museum Opera Towe and Stages of Old Beijing Famous Peons Former Residence Temples and Churches Famous Ititution of Higher Learning Special Local Product of Beijing Bar The Relaxing and Shopping Places The Olympic Park and Olympic Sports Centre National Great Theater China Millennium Monument The Major Historical and Cultural Monuments Under State Protection in Beijing
内容摘要 The Hall of Praying for a Good Harvest The Hall of Praying for a GoodHarvest was the place where emperor prayed for a bumper harvest on the15th of the first month of the Chinese lunar year every year in the Ming andQing Dynasties. It was a round hall with the roof of gold-plating top, thered posts and blue tiles, golden colored drawings and patterns, three-storied layers of eaves. This hall was adopted the structural form with thealtar and with 32 meters high, 30 meters for the diameter, the triple eavesare shrank and bundled upwards and formed umbrella shape layer bylayer. Standing on the altar of Praying for Corn with about 6 meters high,encircled by white fence of stone carving of three layers. The hall isgrandeur and pageantry, well-known at home and abroad, and also is thesymbol and sign of Beijing. The Hall of Praying for a Good Harvest was underproped and connected by28 columns supporting the sky and numerous complicated wooden shelveswithout any beam and iron nail. It is a remarkable model in the woodenframework building and a great wonder in classical timber building of the world,has extremely high science and artistic value. This hall was built in the YongleYear of Ming Dynasty, the original name was Daji Dian, presented the rectangleat first. And then rebuilt with the round hall with triple eaves, and cover blue,yellow and green three colored tiles one by one from top to bottom, namedand Daxiang Dian. In the 17th year of Qianlong reign in the Qing Dynasty( 1752 ), determined as the name of today. At the same time, three color tileschanged into the unified dark blue glazed tiles, in order to symbolize the bluesky. In the 15th year of Guangxu reign in the Qing Dynasty (1889), this hall wasdestroyed by the thunder and fire, and rebuilt according to the former state inthe next year.
精彩内容 《文明与辉煌:北京(英文版)》内容包括:The Historical Belling,From Northern Important Strategic Town to Political Centre,Zhaukoudian& Upper Cave the Mysterious Cranium,The Great Wall, the Great Wonders,Yuandadu Site, the Old City Wall,The City Wall and Gate in the Ming and Qing Dynasties,“inner and Outer Seven”等。
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