Good morning, Today we will be showing you the wondrous world of Ancient China. After this presentation you’ll be fantasizing about 3 places! The Temple of Heaven and Earth ; The Forbidden City and The City of Luoyang. Now in life you can go through some tough times but this trip is none of your worries! Low or high on cash this trip is a bargain for everyone. It is a 6 day trip to Beijing visiting The Forbidden City, The Temple of Heaven, The city of Luoyang and The Beijing part of the Great wall of China. With return flights ;4.5 star hotels ;An English tour guide and translator and an air conditioned ground travel vehicle all for just 999$ a person! I am here today to tell you about The Temple of Heaven and Earth ; The Altar of Earth and
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It consists of The Circular Mound Altar, The Imperial Vault of Heaven and Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests. The Imperial Vault of Heaven is a spiritual gesture of storing the Chinese Gods spirits into tablets made of stone called spirit tablets. The Ancient Chinese used these and captured the essence of a God and preserved it forever. The Circular Mound Altar is a 3 level marble Altar used during the Qing and Ming dynasties to pray for rain during droughts. During its religious use emperors would offer a sacrifice to Heaven on the Winter Solstice. Commonly the animal sacrificed was a bull which was set on fire as an act of prosperity. This would be a practise to pray that everything will be good in the future. The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest consists of 2 parts which are The Hall of Prayer for good harvest and The Imperial Hall of Heaven. The Imperial hall of heaven is a hall where emperors would sit and pray to the chinese Gods that they would have a good harvest and no drought. This had 3 circles of posts. The inner circle which was made up of 4 posts representing the 4 seasons. Then there was the middle circle which had 12 posts and represented the 12 months. Then the outer circle is made up of 12 posts representing the 12 shichen which were a chinesse time increment equal to 2 hours. The interesting
It consists of The Circular Mound Altar, The Imperial Vault of Heaven and Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests. The Imperial Vault of Heaven is a spiritual gesture of storing the Chinese Gods spirits into tablets made of stone called spirit tablets. The Ancient Chinese used these and captured the essence of a God and preserved it forever. The Circular Mound Altar is a 3 level marble Altar used during the Qing and Ming dynasties to pray for rain during droughts. During its religious use emperors would offer a sacrifice to Heaven on the Winter Solstice. Commonly the animal sacrificed was a bull which was set on fire as an act of prosperity. This would be a practise to pray that everything will be good in the future. The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest consists of 2 parts which are The Hall of Prayer for good harvest and The Imperial Hall of Heaven. The Imperial hall of heaven is a hall where emperors would sit and pray to the chinese Gods that they would have a good harvest and no drought. This had 3 circles of posts. The inner circle which was made up of 4 posts representing the 4 seasons. Then there was the middle circle which had 12 posts and represented the 12 months. Then the outer circle is made up of 12 posts representing the 12 shichen which were a chinesse time increment equal to 2 hours. The interesting