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This book is a sub-volume of "General View of Beijing". The Imperial Ancestral Temple was the family temple where emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties paid homage to their ancestors. It was first built in the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420) and covers an area of ​​more than 200 acres. It was built according to the traditional ritual system of "respecting heaven and the ancestors" in ancient China. The Imperial Ancestral Temple is the place where the emperor held ancestor worship ceremonies. There are fifteen side halls on each side of the main hall. The east side hall enshrines the statues of meritorious royal families of past dynasties, and the west side hall houses the statues of meritorious officials with different surnames. This book has beautiful and elegant text and solid historical materials. It introduces the architectural form and humanistic features of the Imperial Ancestral Temple in detail. It is an excellent work for understanding and studying the Imperial Ancestral Temple.