Shenhe District has many attractions: 1. The Shenyang Forbidden City is located on Shenyang Road in Shenhe District. It was the imperial palace before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. It was first built in the tenth year of Tianming in the Hou Jin Dynasty (1625) and completed in the first year of Chongde in the Qing Dynasty (1636). It was the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty.
The palace was built and used by Zu Nurhaci and Emperor Taizong Huang Taiji of the Qing Dynasty. Fulin of the Qing Dynasty took the throne here and changed his reign name to "Shunzhi". He entered the customs that year and ruled the whole of China.
The Shenyang Forbidden City is one of the two existing imperial palace complexes in China and has high historical and artistic value.
Shenyang was called Shengjing in the Later Jin Dynasty, and was designated as the accompanying capital after entering the customs in the Qing Dynasty, so it was also called "Shengjing Palace" or "Pingdu Palace".
Shenyang Forbidden City covers an area of ??60,000 square meters, with more than 70 buildings and more than 300 rooms. It is second only to the Forbidden City in Beijing in terms of scale and well-maintained condition.
The Shenyang Forbidden City has more than 300 houses and more than 20 courtyards. According to its layout, it can be divided into three parts: East Road, Middle Road and West Road.
The middle road is the main body, and the east and west roads are the two wings.
The East Road was built during the Nurhaci period of the Qing Dynasty. The main buildings are the Dazheng Hall and the Ten King Pavilion.
In the middle road, from south to north, there are Daqing Gate, Chongzheng Hall, Phoenix Tower and Qingning Palace; in the east, from south to north, there are Dazheng Hall and Luan Jiaku; in the west, from south to north, there are
There are Jiayintang, Wensu Pavilion and Yangxi Zhai.
The Shenyang Forbidden City collects a large number of royal cultural relics from before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, as well as a large number of precious works of art from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Now, it has been turned into the Shenyang Museum, and most of the items on display are palace cultural relics left over from the old palace.
For example, the Eight Banners armor of the Qing Dynasty, bows and arrows, muskets, and artillery used in combat, including the sword used by Nurhaci, the waist knife used by Huang Taiji, and the antler chair, etc.
2. To the south of the Shenyang Forbidden City is the residence of Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xueliang, namely the Zhang Family Mansion, also known as the Marshal's Mansion.
Founded in 1914, it covers an area of ??29,000 square meters and has a total construction area of ??27,000 square meters. It is a huge building complex integrating Western architectural styles. It is one of the outstanding architectural complexes in modern my country and is the best preserved in Northeast China so far. The former residence of celebrities is a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national 4A tourist attraction.
According to the time of construction and use, Zhang's Shuai Mansion can be divided into two parts: the East Courtyard and the West Courtyard. The two are bounded by the blue brick wall in the courtyard. The East Courtyard is the early building of the Shuai Mansion, including the Siheyuan, Xiaoqinglou, and Daqinglou.
, Guandi Temple and the Miss Zhao Si Building outside the east wall, etc. The west courtyard is a later building.
During the Puppet Manchukuo period, many of the buildings in Zhang's Commandery Mansion were destroyed and the garden became overgrown with weeds.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government carried out reconstruction and repairs many times, and now the Daqinglou and Xiaoqinglou are open to tourists. You can visit the famous Tiger Hall, the luxurious banquet hall, the Northeast Government Affairs Committee, Zhang Zuolin's living room, Zhang Xueliang and his wife's bedroom, Zhang Xueliang's
Office etc.
3. Taiqing Palace is located at No. 16 Xishuncheng Street, Shenhe District. It is a large-scale palace of the Quanzhen sect of Taoism in the Northeast. It is also the center of Taoist activities in the Northeast. In 1963, it was announced as a provincial cultural relic protection unit.
It is now the seat of the provincial and municipal Taoist Associations.
Taiqing Palace was first built in the second year of Kangxi reign of Qing Dynasty (1663) and was originally named "Three Churches".
According to legend, there was a long drought in the Shengjing area at that time, and the seedlings dried up. The government posted a notice asking for rain, promising a reward of three thousand taels of silver to those who could get heavy rain.
After Guo Shouzhen, the eighth generation master of the Longmen Sect who was practicing in Tiesha Mountain in Benxi, heard about this, he went down to Shengjing City and unveiled a notice, expressing his willingness to pray for rain in Shengjing.
He built a high altar in the northwest corner of Shengjing. He cast spells on the altar, and finally brought a heavy rain, which solved the drought in the Shengjing area.
When General Wu Kuli of Shengjing offered him silver, he refused to accept it.
Later, Guo Shouzhen asked the government to build a temple for him as a place of spiritual practice at the place where he prayed for rain, and named it "Three Churches".
The Taiqing Palace was very small when it was first built. It was expanded and renovated in the 32nd year of Qianlong's reign to reach its current size.
The temple faces north and south, covering an area of ??more than 5,000 square meters, with four courtyards in the front and rear.
There is Lingguan Hall in the front yard, and Shifang Hall and Yunshui Hall on both sides.
To the north is the Guandi Hall, which is built in the style of a mountain, with a green tile roof. It is three rooms wide and three rooms deep. There is a wood-carved warm pavilion in the hall, with a statue of Guan Yu in the middle, Guan Ping on the left and Zhou Cang on the right.
Entering the courtyard for the second time, there are the guest hall and the heart-saving room on the east side; the deacon's room and the sutra hall on the west side; the Laojun Hall is on the north side, with a hanging flower-style wooden pavilion and a statue of Laozi in the middle.
Entering the courtyard three times, there are Zhaitang and Lu Zulou on the east side.
There is a statue of Lu Dongbin in Lu Zulou.
On the west side are Shanggong Temple and Qiu Zulou.
There is a statue of Qiu Chuji in the building.
The main hall to the north is the Jade Emperor Pavilion, which is dedicated to the Jade Emperor, the highest deity of Taoism.
The original stele building and stele stone no longer exist.
Guo Zu Pagoda (Guo Shouzhen's Tomb Pagoda) was later moved to Qianshan.