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Tiantan temple is the symbol of the ancient capital of Beijing. Tiantan is the main building, also called the prayer hall, is the Ming and Qing Dynasties two generations of emperors in the first month of prayer for the. It is a gilded ball on the top, blue tile red column, painted beautiful decoration. Three story circular hall. The hall is used in the structures of Royal house. Three layers of white marble circular hall 6 meters high was built in white stone railings around, is the garden valley altar, quite remarkable and outstanding potential, spectacular. The hall of prayer for good harvests of brick wood structure, hall 38 meters high, 32 meters in diameter, three story up layer by layer shrinkage for umbrella. Unique architecture, no long purlin beams and nails, twenty-eight gold rimmed nanmu pillars surround arrangement, supporting the house top weight. The hall is in accordance with the Jing Tianli God idea design house, round, symbolizes the sky; tile is blue, symbolizing the blue sky. The number of columns is said to house, built according to astronomical phenomena. Four Longjing post inner symbolize the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, winter; twelve Jin around the symbol for one year and twelve months; twelve pillar peripheral symbol twelve hours a day. The middle and outer added twenty-four root, a symbol of twenty-four solar term. The three layer of a total of twenty-eight root symbol twenty-eight stars in heaven. Eight child column coupled with the top of the column, a total of thirty-six root, symbolizing the thirty-six tiangang. The column under the emperor Ding is a symbol of rule all the land. The hall of prayer for good harvests of the caisson is composed of two layers of Dougong and a layer of smallpox, intermediate for the Golden Dragon embossment, compact structure, furama.