e edict. the civil and military officials lining both sides of the gateway beneath the tower would prostrate themselves in the direction of the emperor in waiting for the decree to the proclaimed.
4) the courtier would then put the edict in a phoenix-shaped wooden box and lower it from the tower by means of a silk cord. the document would finally be carried in a similar tray of cloud under a yellow umbrella to the ministry of rites.
5) the edict, copied on yellow paper, would be made known to the whole country.such a process was historically recorded as “ imperial edict issued by golden phoenix”.during the ming and qing dynasties tian’anmen was the most important passage. it was this gate that the emperor and his retinue would go through on their way to the altars for ritual and religious activities.
on the westside of tian’anmen stands zhongshanpark( dr. sun yat-sen’s park), and on the east side, the working people’s cultural palave. the park was formerly called shejitan( altar of land and grain), built in 1420 for offering sacrificial items to the god of land. it was opened to the public as a park in 1914 and its name was changed in 1928 to the present one in memory of the great pioneer of the chinese democratic revolution.the working people’s cultural palace used to be taimiao( the supreme ancestral temple), where tablets of the deceased dynastic rulers were kept.
the stream in front of tian’anmen is called waijinshuihe( outer golden river)
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