The Temple of Heaven is a temple of the Taoist religion, situated south of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Built between 1406 and 1420, emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties prayed here to the ...

and from the East Thousand Bu Corridor before the Imperial Palace in the west to the eastern palace walls-fully one half the width of the Forbidden City. The park was originally built in 1420 as a ...

[Photo by Wu Luping/For China Daily] Editor's ... There is the Forbidden City, the imperial palace where 24 emperors lived between 1420 and 1911, which is located in the heart of Beijing.