Tourists check out a giant ice sculpture of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, or Qiniandian, of Beijing’s Tiantan (Temple of Heaven) Park in Changchun, Northeast China’s Jilin Province on January 12, 2026. The Temple of Heaven, founded in the first half of the 15th century, is the place where emperors of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties in China prayed to heaven for bumper harvests. Photo: VCG