Beijing Temple of Heaven (Temple of Heaven) is located in the southeast of the original Beijing outer city, the Forbidden City is east of the south, the east side of the Zhengyang Gate, was built in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), is the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties in ancient China worshipped the heavens. This architectural complex was the site of the emperor's worship of the heavens, and it created a symbolic connection to reinforce the hierarchy of Confucius's society. With a total area of 273 hectares, it is a building used by the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties to "worship the sky" and "pray for the valley". In 1961, the State Council announced the Temple of Heaven as a "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit"; In 1998, it was recognized as "Shijie Cultural Heritage" by UNESCO; In 2009, the Temple of Heaven in Beijing was selected as the largest surviving emperor worship building in China by the China Shijie Records Association.

Beijing's Temple of Heaven covers an area of 2.72 million square meters, while the Forbidden City covers an area of only 720,000 square meters, about four times the size of the Forbidden City. There are two walls to form the inner and outer altars, and the main buildings are the prayer hall, the imperial dome, and the mound. The mound is built on the north-south longitudinal axis, and the altar wall is round in the south and north, symbolizing the round heaven and place. The mound altar is in the south, the prayer valley altar is in the north, and the two altars are on a north-south axis, separated by a wall in the middle. The main buildings in the mound altar are the mound altar, the imperial dome, etc., and the main buildings in the prayer valley altar are the prayer hall, the imperial dry hall, the prayer door and so on. The prayer hall was built in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), and the original name was "the Great Worship Palace", which is a rectangular hall. The prayer hall is 38.2 meters high and 24.2 meters in diameter, which means the four seasons, December, twelve hours and the stars of the Zhou Tian respectively, which is the only remaining column of the ancient Mingtang-style building and the main building of the Temple of Heaven. The mound was built in the ninth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty. Every year on the winter solstice, the "Sacrifice to the Heavens" is held on the platform, and it is intended to be called the Sacrifice Roof. The Echo Wall is the circular enclosure of the Temple of Heaven. Because the wall is hard and smooth, it is a good reflector of sound waves, and because of the precise circumferential curvature, sound waves can be continuously reflected along the inner surface of the wall and propagate forward.

According to historical records, there were formal activities to worship heaven and earth in ancient China, which can be traced back to 2,000 BC and was still in the Xia Dynasty. Ancient Chinese emperors called themselves "Sons of Heaven", and they had great reverence for heaven and earth. Every emperor in history has regarded the sacrifice of heaven and earth as a very important political activity. The sacrificial building has a pivotal position in the construction of the emperor's capital, and it must concentrate manpower, material resources, and financial resources to build it with the highest level of jishu and the most perfect art. The Temple of Heaven, built in the late feudal period, is the most representative work among many sacrificial buildings in China. The Temple of Heaven is not only a pearl in ancient Chinese architecture, but also a treasure in the history of Shijie architecture. The Temple of Heaven was built in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), and Zhu Di worked for 14 years to build it at the same time as the Forbidden City, which is known as the Temple of Heaven and Earth. In the ninth year of Jiajing (1530), due to the establishment of the four suburbs of the suburb system, it was renamed the Temple of Heaven in the thirteenth year of Jiajing (1534). After the Qianlong and Guangxu Emperors of the Qing Dynasty were rebuilt, the pattern of the Temple of Heaven Park was formed.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the heaven and the earth were originally combined to worship together, the suburbs of the north and south were the same, and the place of sacrifice was called the Great Worship Hall, which was a square building with eleven rooms. In the ninth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1530), it was changed to heaven and earth, and the mound altar was built in the Temple of Heaven, which was dedicated to sacrificing to the sky, and the Fang Ze altar was built in the northern suburbs. In the nineteenth year of Jiajing (1540), the original Great Worship Hall was changed to the Great Enjoyment Palace, and the circular building began from there.

After the Qing court entered the customs, everything was still according to the old system of the Ming Dynasty. During the Qianlong period, the country was rich and strong, and the Temple of Heaven was also greatly constructed. In the twelfth year of Qianlong (1747), the emperor decided to rebuild the inner and outer walls of the Temple of Heaven, and changed the earthen wall to be covered with city bricks, and the middle to the top was covered with two layers of city bricks. The width of the top of the inner altar wall was reduced to create a 4 feet 8 inches, without eaves columns, and became an overhanging eaves corridor without columns. The inner and outer walls of the Temple of Heaven that have been rebuilt are thicker and heavier, extending for more than ten miles, becoming a very magnificent landscape. The main buildings of the Temple of Heaven, such as the Hall of Prayer, the Imperial Dome, and the Mound, were also rebuilt at this time and have survived to this day.