Folklore

THE OLD CASTLE OF SHENYANG


The old Shenyang castle that was built by the emperor is very interesting, because of the history.

The old Shenyang palace was located in the centre of the long Shenyang city, the capital of the Liaoning Province, of Tiongkok East Sea. This was the castle of the Qing Dynasty of the beginning period (1616-1911). At the beginning of the 17th age, Emperor Nurhaci from the Dynasty of the Jin made Shenyang the capital city and built the palace there. Karsar Huangtaiji and Emperor Fulin, two emperors of the period were earliest of the Qing Dynasty was crowned as the emperor in the Kuno Shenyang Palace.

The old Shenyang castle the width 6 hectare, where being gotten more 70 building with more than 300 rooms. That was other with the other traditional castle building in Tiongkok was the typical characteristics of the ethnic group nomadik that was thick. Building main the old Shenyang castle was the Dazheng Palace, the workplace emperor and the implementation of the important ceremony. On the other side the Dazheng Palace was gotten 10 small palaces had the shape of the pavilion. Seen from the form the side, the Dazheng Palace in fact was a pavilion. The Dazheng palace and 10 small palaces were the incarnation 11 tents.

The old Shenyang castle was designed according to tradition the Man ethnic group. For example, in front of the Qingning castle, the building in the middle route, was gotten a wood pole be as high as almost 7 metre. According to the Man ethnic tradition, the wood pole was used to give bait to the crow as the prayer statement to sky.

The Old Shenyang palace was build followed the form of the Song Dynasty building (960-1279), the part especially begins to be developed during 1625 and just was finished 10 years afterwards. After that, the emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong carried out the improvement and the increase in the building that took place until more 150 years. It could be said that the old Shenyang castle was the crystallisation of culture of the Tionghoa nation, and the important Tiongkok sign as the unitary state multi the ethnic group.