The Imperial Ancestral Temple, located on the east side of Tiananmen Square in Dongcheng District, Beijing, was first built in the 18th year of the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty (1420). It was a place where emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties worshipped their ancestors and was one of the "Five Altars and Eight Temples" in Beijing in the past. On May 1, 1950, it was renamed as the "Beijing Workers' Cultural Palace" and officially opened to the public.

The Taimiao Temple has a rectangular floor plan, covering an area of 197000 square meters. It is 475 meters long from north to south and 294 meters wide from east to west, with three layers of walls. The main buildings inside the wall face north and south, and the main buildings inside the temple are the Hall of Enjoyment (front hall), the Hall of Sleep (middle hall), and the Temple of Ancestral Hall (back hall). The Temple of Heaven was built during the same period as the Forbidden City, following the ancient system of "Left Ancestor and Right Society". It has undergone the Ming and Qing dynasties and is one of the more complete and large-scale royal ancestral worship buildings in China