. Peking and the overland route. At tlie Worshipful Altar, Hai Tmiiba so DESCRIPTION OF PLACES IN PEKING. IN THE ORDER ENUMERATED IN THE PROGRAMME OF SIGHTSEEING. FIRST DAY, MORNING. (I) The Temple and Altar of Heaven (Tien Tan 3^tf)are the most iiuportsint nionuments in China to the pre-liistorie monotheistic faith, which is generally believed byscholars to have preceded IJuddhism, Taoism, Confu-cianism and the numerous other cults which have fromtime to time gained a hold upon the Chhiese from V)eing one of the few surviving temples to asimple and pure faith, foundefl up
. Peking and the overland route. At tlie Worshipful Altar, Hai Tmiiba so DESCRIPTION OF PLACES IN PEKING. IN THE ORDER ENUMERATED IN THE PROGRAMME OF SIGHTSEEING. FIRST DAY, MORNING. (I) The Temple and Altar of Heaven (Tien Tan 3^tf)are the most iiuportsint nionuments in China to the pre-liistorie monotheistic faith, which is generally believed byscholars to have preceded IJuddhism, Taoism, Confu-cianism and the numerous other cults which have fromtime to time gained a hold upon the Chhiese from V)eing one of the few surviving temples to asimple and pure faith, foundefl upon the partriarchalrelations of the primitive ancestors of the Chinese, the -^?jLl --J ! »>«• r«»B™ f, J n—^ ? ?- •f3 -r-^ ?---> -3^.-. The Altar of Heaven. Peking 31 Temple of Heaven is the most beautiful and the mostpretentious building or jfrouji of buildinufs in Peking, andl)eintj surroundid by an extensive walled park, jiart ofwhieh is now given over to the ex]>erimental work of theForestry Bureau, it is free from tlie turmoil and othersordid distraetions which cha-a?terize so many Orientaltemples. It has always been distinctly an Imperial shrine,the place appointed for the Emperors intercession withthe one great ruler and grandfather of all the countlessgods, demons, and ghosts that have a place in the Chinesepantheon, on IjehaH of his children, tlie Chinese peojile rand as such it is the c])itome of all that is best and mostl)eautifid in Chinese architecture.
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