Epang Palace, known as "the first palace in the world", is a new dynasty palace built by the Qin Empire, the first unified multi-ethnic centralized country in China history. Located in Wang Si Street, Fengdong New Town, Xixian New Area, Xi, Shaanxi Province, it was built in the thirty-fifth year of Qin Shihuang (the first 2 12 years).

Epang Palace, the Great Wall of Wan Li, the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang and the Way of Qin Dynasty are also called "Four Major Projects of Qin Shihuang". They are the first unified landmark building in China, and also the physical symbol of the beginning of the formation of the Chinese nation.

East to the west bank of Zaohe River, west to ji yang Village in Chang 'an District, west to An, south to Heping Village and Dong 'aoli in weiyang district, and north to Zhang Che Village and Houweizhai in weiyang district, with a total area of 15 square kilometers.

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Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, said in Historical Records of Qin Shihuang: The front hall of Epang Palace is 500 paces from east to west and 50 feet from north to south, which can seat 10,000 people, and your highness can raise the flag 50 feet.

Pavilion road around, from your highness to Nanshan. Palace valves and roads were built at the top of Nanshan Mountain. Cross the Weihe River from Epang Palace and go straight to Xianyang. In the Qin Dynasty, one step was six feet, three hundred steps were one mile, and the Qin foot was about 0.23 meters.

In this way, the front hall of Epang Palace is 690 meters wide from east to west and 1 15 meters deep from north to south, covering an area of 80,000 square meters, which is more than enough to accommodate 1 10,000 people. According to legend, Epang Palace has more than 700 large and small halls. During the day, the climate in each hall is different.

There are mountains of treasures in the palace and thousands of beautiful women. Qin Shihuang visited all the palaces all his life and lived in one place a day, but he never lived in all the palaces until his death. The biography of Hanshu Jiashan records the overall scale of Epang Palace, "five miles from east to west, and a thousand steps from north to south."

Today, in the south of Sanqiao Town, the western suburb of Xi City, Shaanxi Province, from Jujiazhuang in the east to Gucheng Village in the west, the site of Epang Palace with an area of about 600,000 square meters is still preserved. It can be seen that Epang Palace is an unparalleled palace building in the history of world architecture with its numerous palaces, wide construction area and large scale.

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