Friday, September 26, 2008

Day 5 - Beijing and the Temple of Heaven






The Temple of Heaven is where the Emperors went to worship. Usually they went a couple of times a year to make sacrifices and pray;  more if current events warranted it. Interestingly, there is a long road to the main temple area. Along the way you pass a structure that is a dressing room, allowing the emperor to change into appropriate dress before he reached the temple. But it made us chuckle. 

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