Beijing Shejitan

The harvest altar or altar of the God of the land and God of crops ( Shejitan ) (Beijing shejitan北京 社稷 坛) in the Beijing Imperial City ( Huangcheng ) is a 1421 in the Yongle era of the Ming period applied at the site of an older place of sacrifice altar west of Tian'anmen tower opposite the Imperial ancestral Temple ( Taimiao ). It was used in the Ming and the Qing dynasty by the Emperor twice a year to victims purposes in the God of the land and the god of crops.

Its square deck was 15 feet long, three feet high, the top platform was covered with earth of five colors. His painting of five colors representing the five cardinal points of the country. In the center of the earth was yellow, red on the southern side of the western white, the northern and the eastern black green.

After the Xinhai Revolution ( 1911) the area in 1914 was released as Central Park, the park received its present name in 1928 Sun Yat-sen Park ( Zhongshan gong yuan).

The altar is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China ( 3-81 ) since 1988.