Tiantan park photo copyrighted by: Brian McMorrow The Temple of Heaven, or Tiantan, is China's largest temple and altar complex.
It was the place where emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties worshipped
heaven and prayed for abundant harvests. As Chinese emperors called themselves Tianzi, or the son of heaven, they had to cede supremacy to the heaven in terms of abiding.
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