Shenyang historical and Scenic spots

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<>The South Islamic Temple </P><>The South Islamic Temple was established in 1636 and broadened in 1662. It sits in the west and faces the east. On its axes, there are the mountain gate, the second gate, the assistant mansion, the palace and the moon building, in the center is the palace and in the surroundings are the scripture house, auxiliary house, lady temple, bathroom, dead body bath room and so on. It shows completely the style of Islam. It is the site in which the South Islam Association is located. </P>

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<>Nanguan Catholicism Church </P><>Nanguan Catholicism Church was established in 1878 by a French clergyman. </P><>It sits in the north and faces the south and is the typical Hunter </P><>building. The two bell towers are 40 m high and the halls inside are 20m </P><>high, supported by 24 granite pillars. The halls are unique and can hold </P><>more than 1,000 people for worship. </P>

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<>Dongguan Church </P><>
Dongguan Church was established in 1876. It is the oldest Protestantism church with the most people in Northeast China. It is a grand building of green bricks and west style. The major worship hall was founded in 1907 and broadened in 1992. In 1998, another assistant hall was built, which can hold more than 5,000 people. </P>

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<p>Imperial Palace </p><p>Shenyang imperial Palace is the second well-reserved palace cluster after Bejing imperial Palace. It was started to build in 1624 and came into being in1636.lt was the first emperor Nurgaci and his son Huangtaiji's imperial palace. The palace is divided into east, middle and west part, has more than 100 ancient buildings and covers an area of more than 60,000 m2 .The whole buildings syncretize the arts of the Man, the Han, the Mongolia and the Zang peoples and etc, forming a unique style. Among these buildings, the famous building, Phoenlix Building was the tallest building in Shenyang at that time. "Seeing the sun in the daybreak”, is one of the “Eight Sights”, of the old Shenyang. </p><p></p><p>Shenyang Imperial Palace with a history of over 360 years started in 1625 and was roughly accomplished in 1636 during the reign of Nuerhachi and Huangtaiji.&nbsp; After them four emperors of Qing Dynasty had come back from Beijing to this palace for 10times and enlarged its area and added its buildings. They were Emperor Kangxi, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang. Therefore, until 1783 the palace was finally finished. Qing Dynasty set up by Manchurians is the last feudal dynasty in China. Man is one of 56 minorities in China. Shenyang is regarded as the birthplace of Manchurians.</p><p>Shenyang Imperial Palace is one of two royal palaces well kept in China. The other one is Forbidden City in Beijing. Shenyang Imperial Palace was entitled ‘Historic Culture Relics Preserved Buildings’ in 1961 by the State Council. It was the political and cultural center of the northeastern area when Qing Dynasty ruled China and serves as the best evidence to study the social status, construction style and folklore custom of early Qing Dynasty. This palace is an emperor museum combining the architectural styles of the minorities of Man, Han and Mongolia.</p><p>This palace covers an area of 60,000 square meters, comprising over 20 courtyards, 300 houses and 70 buildings. Geographically speaking, the whole construction is divided into three sections : the east, middle and west. The east section was set up first and its main buildings are Great Affairs Hall(Dazhengdian) and Ten Princes Pavilions(Shiwangting), Grand Qing Gate, Great Administriation Hall(Congzhendian), Phoenix Tower and Purity and Tranqulilty Hall(Qingninggong) consist of the middle section. The west section was built last, including Theater Platform, Good Descendant-benefiting Hall(Jiayintang), Book Source Pavilion(Wensuoge) and Prosperity Admiration Study(Yangxizhai), which were all added by the later emperors.</p><p><a href="http://www.you024.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=599&amp;extra=page%3D1"></a></p>

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<p>　Zhao Tomb (Zhaoling Tomb)<br/></p><p><br/>Zhao Tomb (North Tomb) is the tomb for Qing Taizong Huangtaiji and his wife Boerjite. It was established in 1643 and covers an area of 327.4 m2 .There are Long'en Palace , Baocheng Building, Baoding Building, Crescent City, Daming Building, DapaiBuilding. Fang City, Long'en Gate, Dahong Gate, Sote Torii and etc in it. It is of big scale, with grand building, and can be called as the excellent masterpiece of the Han and Man cultures cultures.<br/></p><p>Zhaoling Tomb, an imperial tomb of Qing Dynasty. We visit the imperial tomb of Qing Tai Zong, the emperor of the dynasty for the second generation. This emperor had played an important role in Chain’s history. He had unified the northeast whole boundary eventually, had founded the last final feudal dynasty, established solid foundation, he is a monarch of important historical contribution and foresight outstanding insight in Chinese feudal social history. It has absorbed the good qualities of former Ming Ling tomb, inherited Chinese ancient traditional building advantages, has strong national style and local characteristics, is the most magnificent tomb, and most representative, it is the most complete ancient emperor tomb conserved now 9 in China. In the past, the tomb district wooden stakes are red, bonus and white, 3 kinds of green color. ‘The big law’ of Qing dynasty stipulate clearly:“within red stake everything even the grass are important; within heavy, white stake no cutting of trees; within green stake burning and making things are prohibited”.Also for entering into the tomb there is district and detailed regulations. Evidently the boundary stone is the symbol of the big law made one afraid of touching them. Now, these boundary stone along with the dynasty die out and has nothing left long ago.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Besides the Boundary stones around the tomb, there are 6 discontinue stele, they in pairs stand in the tomb in which two are in the front of the tomb, another near the red door. There are two discontinue brands, a pair is in the north bank of Xinkaihe River, a pair is in the south of the supernatural breidge. The 3 discontinue stele are preserved intact so far, the stone material chose the green sand stone of hard usage. Every stele has 4 angle stone, may play the part of consolidate the role of stele body, also play the part of decorate beautify role. The stele go to right-hand seat carve with satisfactory veins, and the open smooth part in waist is inscription. The inscriptions of stele are not completely identical. The one in the north bank has man,meng,han,hui,zang 5 kinds of inscription style. It reads: ‘Any officials below Zhuwang etc.discontinue to this’ , other two has only man,meng,han 3 kinds of styles, is : officials discontinue to this.</p><p>Discontinue is the sign of feudal grade system. It was applied extensively in the tomb, palace, the distance means the grade difference. Officials discontinue to it whenever they meet it. It is claimed“military palace discontinue, civil official take off Jiao”. Otherwise, is violate system, will get punishment.</p><p><br/></p>

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