Abstract:Chaotian Palace was once the largest Taoist temple in Beijing during the Ming dynasty and the office of the Taoist pivot, the Daoist Department of Records, but was unfortunately destroyed by the mysterious fire at the end of the Ming Dynasty. In its short history, only a few words of description remain in nursery rhymes and documents. This paper examines these surviving historical sources to explain the construction, function and destruction of Chaotian Palace, clarify the evolution of Chaotian Palace from the early Ming Dynasty to Xuantian Taoist temple at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the change of its name to Yuantian Taoist temple in the early Qing Dynasty to avoid taboo, t has been renamed Yuhuang Daoist temple since the founding of P.R. China, and then on the basis of which the relevant misconceptions are resolved.