Temple of Heaven

Today we went to the Temple of Heaven. We started out at Tiananmen square and walked the same path as the emperors would have to the temple. The temple of heaven was a place where the emperors would go to talk to god. He would stand alone in a large open area with a square running around it and he would stand on a circle stone platform. The circle in Chinese culture stands for earth and the circle stands for heaven. It symbolizes the joining of heaven and earth. After about 2 hours of walking around we have some free time so a couple of us went to the counterfeit mall, it was an interesting experts.