Lu Shen Street is Lu Shen Street outside Chaoyangmen and in front of Dongyue Temple.

Lu Shen Street, in front of Dongyue Temple outside Chaoyangmen, Beijing, has a simple name and is the road that Dongyue Emperor walked. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, every year on March 28th of the lunar calendar, Dongyue Emperor's birthday, in addition to officials and people going to worship incense to catch up with the temple fair, an important activity was Dongyue Emperor's outing.

About one kilometer south of Lu Shen Street archway is ritan park. Ritan park is one of the five altars in Beijing. Founded in A.D. 1530, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, it was originally called the altar of offering sacrifices to the sun. It is the place where emperors of Ming and Qing dynasties offered sacrifices to the sun god. In the center of the park, there is also a restored altar, which is said to be used for sacrifice. The surrounding walls are round and there are stargates on all sides. The stargate of white marble with red walls and green tiles is hidden in a lush pine and cypress. There is a kitchen, a vault and a bell tower outside the North Star Gate, and there is a slaughter pavilion in the northeast corner to slaughter livestock. In the sacrificial activities of ancient emperors, it is very common to use livestock as tributes. There was a well in the pavilion, which was later filled in. Outside the East and South Ridges, there are arborvitae with dense trees. Jiang described this scene in Chang 'an Hakka Dialect. There is a clothing store in the northwest corner outside Xiling Gate. There is a stove pool directly opposite the west gate. There is a straight road in the middle, about 200 meters long. Now it is a very common road in ritan park. At that time, it was covered with white marble, and this section of the road was called "Lu Shen". This is the most important part of the emperor's Spring Festival every year. The emperor is the "son of heaven", and his activities are closely related to the gods in the sky. This is probably the reason, so his way on earth is called "God Road". Now the white marble on that road has been somewhat uneven, mottled and damaged, with obvious traces of time. It is said that emperors after the Ming Dynasty held large-scale sacrificial activities here every spring equinox.

The data of Ritan Museum can also reflect the grand occasion of that year. The royal family went all the way out of Chaoyangmen, through Lu Shen Street, through the three glazed archways on the seventh floor, and went straight to Ritan. The memorial archway was built in 1607 during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, more than 70 years later than the altar. Generally speaking, social corruption prevailed in the Ming Dynasty, and flattery, playing politics and taking bribes filled every corner of social life. At first, eunuchs were in power, in the middle, traitors were in charge of state affairs, and finally, eunuchs were in power. Such a social environment is naturally full of examples of flattery. In order to cater to the emperor's psychology, someone carved the words "Emperor Yan Yong's seat" on the horizontal plaque facing the outer street of the archway. Judging from the font alone, it is vigorous and powerful, which is undoubtedly a classic of calligraphy. But it hides the author's dark psychology. As a result, the "national wealth" of the Ming Dynasty did not last forever. Thirty-eight years later, its mountains and rivers, with the peasant rebels in Li Zicheng stepping over Beijing, the city walls disappeared. Just like imperial academy's big tree "weeding out pines and cypresses", it left a laughing stock and an ancient archway. Very simply, it is the "road" taken by the "God" of Dongyue Emperor. The statue of wood carving and clay sculpture can't go to the ground like a true god, but it has to be carried on the "street", so it is "Lu Shen Street".

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the birthday of Emperor Dongyue was celebrated on March 28th of the lunar calendar every year. In addition to burning incense to catch up with the temple fair, an important activity is that Emperor Dongyue goes out for a cruise. In the Ming Dynasty, "A Brief View of Jingdi Scenery", it was recorded that "the emperor's birthday, drums and flags, pavilions and pavilions, guided the benevolent emperor to travel. The emperor's tour was full of women, scholars, businessmen and pedestrians. The emperor traveled home, took a drunken pine forest and returned at night. "

It is said that Chaoyang is the area with the least distribution of historical sites in Beijing, but it still doesn't think it lacks history and culture. It forcibly cut down the Dongyue Temple and removed its arms, and it has become what it is now. : No.75 tram 10 1 Tram 109 tram1Kloc-0 tram12 tram, No.202 tram, No.750 tram, No.619 tram.