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a well-known chinese city in history and culture
shenyang is a well-known chinese city in history and culture with about 1100ground and underground cultural relices. it is so called because of being located on the north bank of the hunhe river(named as shenshui in ancient times). according to the textual research for xinle archaeological site, 7200 years ago, our ancestors lived and multiplied on this land. the founding history of shenyang city has been over 2300 years 300 when qin kai established hou city here to garrison border land. shenyang has long been reputed as “the birthplace for one dynasty and the capital for two emperors ”. in 1625, nuerhachi, the first emperor of qing dynasty, moved its capital here , and renamed it shengjing. in 1636,huangtaiji, the second emperor of qing dynasty, changed the reigning title into qing dynasty. in 1644, shenyjing was identified as auxiliary capital while beijing became the capital after the
soldiers of qing dynasty entered the shanhaiguan pass. in 1651, fengtian prefecture was established here .in 1945, it was renamed shenyang again.
  world cultural heritage
  shenyang imperial palace
  apart from the imperial palace in beijing, shenyang imperial palace is the second existent largest palace building complex in china, it is completely preserved, its construction was started in 1624 and it was completed in 1636,it was the palace for qing taizu nurhachi and qing taizong huangtaiji. shenyang imperial palace is divided into eastern line, middle line and western line, now there are over 100 ancient buildings, covering an area of over 60000 square meters. the entire building merges multinational arts of manchu,han,mongolian and tibetan nationalities, and has formed its unique style. the renowned building phoenix tower was the topmost building in shenyang at that time, and “viewing suise from phoenix tower” was one of eight spectacular scenes in ancient shenyang.
  fu mausoleum
  fu mausoleum(east tomb)is the tomb for emperor nurhachi and empress yehenala. it covers an area of 557 hectares, its construction was started in 1629,and it was basically completed in 1651.through renovation by emperors shunzhi, kangxi and qianlong for many times later, a complete architectural complex of mausoleum was formed, including main vermilion gate ,108-step stairway, square city,long’en hall, east and west side halls, daming pavilion, treasure mound, and so on .fu mountain behindit ,there are tall ancient pines and range upon rangs of mountains,” green pine on tianzhu mountain ”was one of eight spectacular scenes in ancient shenyang.
  zhao mausoleum
  zhao mausoleum(north tomb) is the tomb of qing taizong huangtaiji and empress boerjijite. it was built in 1634 and its area is 3,274,000 square meters. there are buildings including long’en hall, treasure city, treasure mound, crescent city, damin
g pavilion, dabei
pavilion ,square city, long’ en gate, dahong gate, stone arch, and so on .its scale is grand and the building is magnificent, it is good enough to be a masterpiece combining styles of manchu nationality and han nationality.
  relics of remote antiquity profound potential
  taiqing temple
  construction of taiqing temple was started in 1663,it faces south and it is composed of lingguan hall, liaofang houde , guandi hall ,chanting scriptures hall, laojun hall, yuhuang pavilion, lvzu hall, sanguan hall, qiuzu hall, and so on .taiqing temple was historically the center of taoism activity in the northeast, nowadays it is the location of taoism association of shenyang ,and it is a key taoist temple of china.
  xinle relic
  xinle relic is a tribe relic of matriachal society in the early stage og neolithic age over 7200 years ago, more than one thousand important cultural relics and remains of ancient house were excavated, such as stone artifacts, bone implement, earthenware, wooden furniture, jet product, and so on .among them, “wood sculpture bird” is a precious cultural relicsand it is the oldest among those excavated in shenyang region, it is also the only wood sculpture handicraft whose preservation is the oldest.
  shisheng temple
  construction of shisheng temple was started in 1636,it was bestowed by qing taizong huangtaiji, so it is also called imperial temple, and it is the earliest and the largest temple of tibetan buddhism in shenyang city. the temple faces south, there are buildings of celestial king hall, mahavira hall, mahakala building, pagode courtyard, bell-tower and drum-tower, liaofang houde,and so on .among them, mahakala buddhism builiding once consecrated “mahakala buddha”, and “soundin
pines
g bell at imperial temple” is one of eight spectacular scenes in ancient shenyang.
  four pagodas and four temples of early qing dynasty
  construction of four pagodas and four temples of early qing dynasty was started in 1643,including east pagoda at yongguang temple, south pagoda at guangci temple, west pagoda at yanshou teple and north pagoda at falun temple. they are all about 5-li away from shenyang in ancient shenyang ,and they add radiance beauty to the place in the city, having the appearance of “great unity, complete buddha-stupa at four gates”. the design of four pagodas are identical, they are composed od three parts, including pagoda base, pagoda baby and pagoda top. the entire pagoda is 26 meters high, only falun temple around north pagoda is completely preserved among four pagodas and four temples, and shenyang forest of steles are located in the temple. merely white pagoda is left at youngguang temple around north pagoda and guangci