The Temple of Heaven is about ten miles long, between Zhengyangmen and Yongdingmen. It was built in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (AD 142). There is such a kind of motherwort in the Temple of Heaven. Before the Republic of China, there were several pharmacies selling "Yi Mu Gao" in the Temple of Heaven. After the Republic of China, they moved out of the Temple of Heaven.

The Temple of Heaven, a group of ancient buildings, is world-famous. The Hall of Prayer for the New Year, the Imperial Dome, the dome and the echo wall are all familiar names, and many commodities are branded with pictures of the Hall of Prayer for the New Year. The architecture of the Temple of Heaven is not mentioned here, but there is a strange grass in the Temple of Heaven: the tender buds can be eaten as vegetables, called "Gracilaria lemaneiformis"; When you grow up and mature, you can use stems and leaves to boil medicine, which is an effective medicine for treating women's diseases, called "motherwort", and the medicine boiled out is called "Yimu ointment"; Seeds are also gynecological drugs, called "Jianweizi". Why are there so many motherwort in the Temple of Heaven? Folk legends have such a story.

The storyteller said: Before there was no Temple of Heaven in the early years, before it was enclosed in the city, it was also a large yellow land, where many farmers lived. They were also plowing and digging for food. Here, there lived a Zhuang family named Zhang. The old man had been dead for more than two years, leaving only an old woman, who had no son, and only a 16-year-old daughter. The mother and daughter lived a miserable life of lack of people and money. Because the old lady misses her husband, she is worried that no one will farm for them. As the days get longer, she becomes sick, and her illness gets heavier every day. The old lady is anxious, and Miss Zhang is even more anxious. I invited many doctors and took a lot of medicine, but it didn't work. Just when the crops were harvested in autumn, Miss Zhang made up her mind: go to Beishan to find a panacea. When she was young, her parents told her stories, saying that there were many elixirs in the old mountains and valleys of Beishan. As long as she was not afraid of climbing mountains, she could cure any serious illness well if she found this elixir. Miss Zhang has long remembered it in her heart. At this time, she was going to Beishan to find medicine, so she told her mother, who was not at ease and said, "How can you walk so far as a little girl?" Miss Zhang said, "Don't worry, Mom, I'll be careful along the way." She entrusted an aunt next door to take care of her mother. She took dry food and went out to Beishan to find a panacea.

When she left home, Miss Zhang was worried: Where is Beishan? She thought: Beishan must be in the north. Go north! After walking for one day, I saw the mountain. After walking for another three days, I haven't reached Beishan yet. However, the mountain that Miss Zhang saw is getting closer and closer. On this day, I came to a mountain pass. Miss Zhang was thinking: Are you going into this mountain pass? Just look at the old man with a white beard coming down from the mountain pass. When the old man saw Miss Zhang, he was happy and said, "Girl, what are you doing in an old valley in the deep mountains?" Miss Zhang told the story of how her mother was sick and how she went to Beishan to find a panacea. Then she asked the old man with white beard, "Grandpa, is there a panacea in this room?" "Yes, yes." "Grandpa, how can I get up the mountain?" The old man with white beard smiled, returned his hand and pointed to the mountain, saying, "Little girl, you can go up the mountain here, turn left at Qidaowan, turn right at Badaowan, eat pine nuts when you are hungry, drink clear spring when you are thirsty, and see the earth and heaven, and the panacea is at hand." When Miss Zhang listened to the old man talking like a song, she knew in her heart that she just didn't know what "seeing the earth and heaven" meant. Just about to ask the old man, the old man with white beard had already left the mountain pass and walked far away. Miss Zhang, go up the mountain. She really turned seven bays to the left and eight bays to the right. When she is hungry, she will pick up some big pine nuts on the ground to eat. When she is thirsty, she will lie down beside the mountain spring and drink some water. When she is tired, she will sleep in the mountain. When she wakes up, she will still go up the mountain. I can't remember walking for a few days. On this day, Miss Zhang walked to the top of a hill. There was a small water pool on the top of the hill. The water in the pool was very clear, and the white clouds in the sky shone into the pool. Miss Zhang was stupefied here when she heard the voices of girls behind her. When Miss Zhang turned around, she saw two little girls coming towards her. One was wearing a snow-white dress, and the other was wearing a light yellow dress embroidered with Bai Meihua, which was beautiful. Approached, the girl in white smiled and said, "Sister, what's the matter?"? Don't you know our' earth to heaven'? " Miss Zhang was very happy when she heard that "the earth went to heaven" and said, "Do sisters have a panacea? Help my mother! " The girl in flowered clothes said, "Sister, needless to say, Grandpa White Beard told us everything. I have a bag of elixirs here. I'll cook them at home and give them to my aunt. " Said, and handed me a small pocket. The girl in white said, "There are still seeds of the elixir in this pocket. After Auntie is well, my sister should scatter these seeds on the edge of the ground and let them grow on their own. People who are sick like Auntie will not be afraid." The girl in flowered clothes said, "Sister, hurry home, we won't see her off. Sister Bai's words, sister should remember! " Miss Zhang thanked the two sisters with gratitude and turned around and walked down the hill. Not far away, Miss Zhang really could not bear to part with these two kind sisters. She wanted to see them again. When she looked back, where could there be a girl in white and flowery clothes? I saw a white parrot and a sika deer, flying to the west and running.

Strange to say, when Miss Zhang came, she walked for seven days and eight nights. When she returned, she arrived home soon. When Miss Zhang got home, she boiled the elixir and gave it to her mother. Within a few days, her mother was well, and Miss Zhang and her neighbors were in high spirits. Miss Zhang scattered the seeds of the elixir in her pocket all over the edge of this piece of land. In spring, dark green buds appeared, in summer, they grew into elixirs, and in autumn, the elixir bore seeds again, more and more every year. When the women were sick, they took the elixir and cured the disease according to Miss Zhang's instructions. What is the name of the elixir? Everyone said, "Good-hearted Miss Zhang has worked hard to find a panacea for her mother and cured her illness. Let's call it motherwort." The name "motherwort" has been handed down.

Later, I don't know how many years have passed, and Beijing has an "emperor"; I don't know which "emperor" it reached, but this "emperor" was going to pray to "God" to bless him, and built a Temple of Heaven on this land with motherwort. The Temple of Heaven was built, and there was still a lush motherwort in the open space in the Temple of Heaven. The emperor's old son was angry and said, "I don't have so many weeds in this temple of heaven, so I have to pull them all out!" At this time, a minister whose mother had eaten motherwort and his wife was eating motherwort said to the emperor's old son, "Your Majesty, this is not a weed. It's called Gracilaria lemaneiformis. Isn't the emperor a dragon?" If you pull it all out, the emperor will not grow a beard. " The emperor's old son was afraid of not growing a beard, so motherwort was left in the Temple of Heaven. From here on, the bud of motherwort was called Gracilaria lemaneiformis.

2. The Temple of Heaven is an ancient Chinese building that is famous both at home and abroad, but I'm afraid the mystery is not known to everyone.

The Temple of Heaven was first built as a place to worship heaven and earth, hence its name, which can still be seen from the shape of the altar wall today. Its altar walls are both inside and outside, both of which are round in the south and north, which is in line with the traditional concept of a round place in ancient China. Although it was changed from the ninth year of Jiajing to the separation of heaven and earth, another altar was built in the northern suburbs, but the wall around the Temple of Heaven remained unchanged.

Most people think that the Temple of Heaven is the Hall of Praying for the New Year, which is another big misunderstanding. The original meaning of the word

is the bumper harvest of grains. In seal script, from thousand to grain, it is form. Therefore,

the Hall of Prayer for the New Year is actually a place where emperors pray for good weather and good harvests, and the place where they salute

is his royal highness's frustum, which is not the base of the Hall of Prayer for the New Year, but is called the altar of Prayer for the Valley

. The Hall of Prayer for the New Year is just a house to shelter from rain and snow when offering sacrifices. When it was first built, it was wide. %, depth # & The square hall with yellow tiles, jade eaves and double ridges in the middle is called Da Si < P > Hall. In the seventeenth year of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing rebuilt it into a round pavilion

Jinding Hall, which was famous as the Grand Enjoying Hall. It was rebuilt in Qianlong to build its present appearance. According to

, yes! In a thunderstorm in, the Hall of Prayer for the New Year was burned by thunder and fire, because its pillars were sandalwood, and the fragrance floated for miles. The Hall of Prayer for the New Year, which we see now, was rebuilt after that.

The real place to worship heaven is the Oahu altar, the Temple of Heaven. "Eh" means

days in Chinese. In the Book of Changes, Dui Gua says, "Doing is heaven, and doing is love." There is also a sentence in

Chu Ci Tian Wen, that is, "Heaven has nine weights, who is in charge of it?" This white marble altar, like the Hall of Prayer for the New Year, is an excellent building in ancient China. Because the dome is a place to worship heaven, its building size can only be

days, not land. The so-called "days" are odd numbers such as one, three, five, seven and

nine. Because the Book of Changes says: "The Yang divination is odd, and the Yin divination is even." It's sunny, so only

odd numbers can be used. Therefore, when building, all the structures are measured with "Yuanyang ruler" < P >. "Yuanyang ruler" means that the ancient ruler is combined with the present ruler, and the diameter of the altar surface is measured with the ancient ruler, and the height of the altar is measured with the present ruler. The altar has three floors, and the top floor is nine feet in diameter, which is the "September 19" and the middle floor! "

Zhang is" three to five ",the bottom%! Zhang is "Sanqi", all of which are "days". The total of the three levels is

) "Zhang", which is "the Ninth Five-Year Plan", just in line with the auspicious omen of "the ninth Five-Year Plan, the flying dragon is in the sky, and it is beneficial to see the adults" in Zhouyi. The Book of Changes also says: "Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, and two instruments give birth to four images."

So a round central stone, also called Taiji Stone, was placed in the center of the top floor. Nine fan-shaped slates are

embedded around Taiji Stone, and then they are added layer by layer, all of which are multiples of nine. * * * There are nine layers, which is

the number of nine, and it symbolizes that the sky has nine weights. The tablet of the Emperor of Heaven is placed on the Taiji Stone < P >, which symbolizes that the Emperor of Heaven is high in the sky. The number of slabs in the middle and bottom layers is also a multiple of nine. The number of railings around the altar surface is also symbolic. There are four railings at the top,

each side! Block, * * *% block, middle! $' piece, the bottom! $ block, total #&; $

block, or "a week" #&; The number of $ degrees. Because of this, the altar was built in a strange way, so Qianlong < P > specially rewarded the craftsmen leaders with six, seven and no grade third-class top hats.

To the south of the Waqiu is Zhaoheng Gate, and to the west of the gate there are # stone platforms, which are used to erect lampposts

. The original length of the rod is (Zhang (inch). & diameter &; Feet, feet high, like a small room,

in which the "Dragon Wax" cast with dragon patterns is lit. Wax is made of

yellow wax from Sichuan and Guangxi, which is) feet long and thick! Ruler, after ignition, it won't go out, no oil will flow, no need to cut candles

flowers, and it can burn continuously! % hours, is a precious handicraft.

The Temple of Heaven, such a solemn and solemn place, has a creepy place called "The Gate of the Ghost". Livestock and poultry used for sacrifice are kept in the sacrifice place,

to the west of the two altars, namely, Waqiu and Qigu, while the sacrificial pavilion and the god chef who makes offerings are

to the east of the two altars. According to the regulations, on the Shinto Road between the Gate of Praying for the Year and the Gate of Chengzhen, no living thing is allowed to pass, except for birds, and livestock for sacrifice are not allowed to pass through the Gate of Zhaoheng and the Gate of Beitianmen. So people built a portal tunnel under Shinto, and

sacrificial cattle, sheep, chickens and rabbits were sent to the slaughter pavilion for slaughter. Because they never came back,

it was called "the gate of hell" here. At that time, it was also said that the cave was haunted, and Tianshi

, who had violated the heavenly rules, was locked up, so people were afraid to go in and out of this area casually, and the worshippers

tried to bypass it when offering sacrifices, so as not to get rid of ghosts and get unlucky.

There were many specialties in the Temple of Heaven, one of which was water. There are many bitter wells

in Beijing, but the well water of the chef in the Temple of Heaven is sweet. Taoists say that this well

leads to the Tianhe River, which is a magical water, so as to cheat people. Wang Shizhen wrote in one of his poems:

"The earth in the capital is full of water and springs, and the spring buds in Gu Zhu are fried in vain. Only the stone in the Temple of Heaven is good, and Qingbo

buys thousands of dollars for a spoonful. " The price is really expensive. In addition, Adenophora adenophora, Yimu ointment and

Gracilaria lemaneiformis in the Temple of Heaven were once famous. Gracilaria lemaneiformis was originally an ordinary wild vegetable, but because Kangxi

didn't like Gracilaria lemaneiformis in the Temple of Heaven, it was listed as a tribute in the imperial dining room, and it was suddenly

a hundred times more expensive, so people couldn't eat it until they reached the famous restaurants in Beijing. When Tongzhi < P > arrived, Gracilaria lemaneiformis in the Temple of Heaven no longer entered the palace, and the dignitaries stopped patronizing it. Tian

Sha Shen Yi Mu Gao in the altar is a genuine good medicinal material. Longqi is a mother-benefiting cream, once a famous product in Beijing, which was once valued by foreign businessmen and was one of the earliest export commodities in China.

motherwort, the main raw material of Yimu ointment, is wild. The optimistic Taoist priest of the Temple of Heaven

moved wild herbs to the Temple of Heaven for deliberate cultivation, which of course grew better and had greater efficacy.

A Zhuzhi poem in Beijing wrote: "The purple calyx with square stems produces the Temple of Heaven, and the vetch grass boils into the liver.

. Treating blood and tonifying deficiency can benefit the mother, and the child will buy filial piety? " Of course, these two medicines were naturally blown into magical medicines in the mouths of Taoist scholars. 3. The "Seven-Star Stone" in the Temple of Heaven actually has eight stones, and it is said that the eighth stone is "Changbai Mountain". (Holy Mountain in Manchu Hometown)