Located on the due north of the Shouhuang Gate, the Shouhuang Hall was originally dedicated to the Kangxi’s "Divine Statue" and later served as a place to enshrine the statues of emperors of the Qing Dynasty. The ancestral worship system of the Shouhuang Hall began in the first year of Yongzheng (1723); later, the Qianlong Emperor rebuilt the Shouhuang Hall to show respect for the former emperor and relocated it from the northeast side of Jingshan mountain to the north-south axis of the capital, that is, the north of Jingshan. Its scale far exceeded that of the Ming Dynasty.

The Shouhuang Hall is the main building in the Shouhuang complex, located on the true north of Shouhuang Gate, facing south. The palace is 9-room-wide and 3-room-deep, with a porch between; a platform with a guardrail in front of it, and a plaque of "ShouHuang Hall" in Chinese hanging under the eaves. According to the Qing Palace system, after the death of emperors, the portraits of former emperors, as well as the portraits of their concubines, used seals and cherished literary utensils, some of them were buried altogether, and the rest were placed in the Shouhuang Hall for worship. The Qianlong Emperor was the oldest, second-longest ruler only below Kangxi Emperor, so his remains were the most numerous in the hall.

After the "Eight-Nation Alliance" captured the city of Beijing, the French army used the Shouhuang Hall as its headquarters, changed the layout of the palace arbitrarily, and looted a large number of paintings, talismans, and other treasures. When the French troops withdrew from the Shouhuang Hall in 1901, it was in ruins. In modern times, after the establishment of the Palace Museum, the remaining imperial statues and furnishings in the Shouhuang Hall were gradually moved into the Palace Museum.

In November 2013, to restore the ancient architectural complex of Shouhuang Hall, the protection and repair project began. At present, the main hall of the Shouhuang Hall has been partially restored as the buildings of the Qing Guangxu period. The Shouhuang Hall Complex is the second-largest in the ancient architectural complex on the central axis, except for the Forbidden City, and is also an important part of the core area and the central axis of Jingshan Park. Its opening will further promote the protection and display of cultural relics and buildings on the central axis, and help the application of heritage on the central axis of Beijing.

Address: Due north of Jingshan Mountain, Beijing