The Temple of the Moon is a place for moon worship in ancient China, also known as the "Temple of Xiyue (the moon at night)". As early as the Zhou Dynasty, there was already a regime of emperor’s sun worship in Spring and moon worship in Autumn. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Temple of the Moon in Beijing was at the west of Nanlishi Road and south of Yuetan North Street in present-day Xicheng District, forming Yuetan Park together with its southern antique gardens.

North Garden with ancient style:

The Temple of the Moon gets only one storey, 1.50 meters high, 14 meters square, and has an area of 196 square meters. During the years of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, the altar surface was made of white glazed tiles; and during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the altar surface was rebuilt with gold bricks. There are stone steps on the four sides of the Temple, all of which are six steps. The walls surrounding the Temple of the Moon is rectangle, with a square wall circumference of 49 meters, 2 meters high, and 0.7 meters thick. The square wall is covered with black glazed tiles, and the east of the wall is built the Lingxing gate with three doors and six pillars; the south, west and north of the wall are built with a one-door and two-pillar Lingxing gate. The lintels, thresholds, and pillars of the Lingxing Gate are made of white marble, with gate painted red.

"Moon" themed South Park:

The South Garden is also known as the "Invitation Moon Garden" or "Toad Palace Garden". A new group of small gardens was built in the middle of the yard, consisting of 5 painted north rooms, verandas, flower walls, and osmanthus flowers planted within, named "Tianxiangyuan". There are open-air music cafes, broadcasting famous songs such as "Moonlight Song" and "Spring Night on a Moonlight River", hosting "Moonlight Party", and there are colored music voice-controlled fountains at night. In addition, there are 76 inscriptions on the 200-meter-long wall in the park, which are ancient poems written by modern calligraphers.

In the northeast corner of the South Park, there is a hill full of green pines and cypresses, and there is an open hall on the top, which can be used for people to climb and cool down in summer. There is also a hill in the northwest and a hill in the south, and a painted ancient pavilion is built on each hill, named the LanYue Pavilion and the Jiyue Pavilion. When climbing the highland, you can overlook the park. There is a small bridge in the northern foothills of the South Mountain, and there is a waterfall on the side of the bridge that plunges into the pool, and a statue is in the pool, named "Goddess Chang's fly to the moon". On the south side of Tianxiang yard, there is an open grass bed with several stone jade-like rabbits on it, which together with Tianxiang yard means "guanghan" in the world.

Address: West of Nanlishi Road, Xicheng District, Beijing