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Located in the center of the Square city of Shenyang during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Shenyang Imperial Palace was first built in 1625, covering an area of 60,000 square meters. There are 114 qing dynasty buildings, totaling more than 500. It is one of the two well-preserved ancient imperial buildings in China.

According to the construction time and basic pattern, the shenyang Imperial Palace can be divided into east, middle and west three roads. The east Road mainly includes the Great Political Hall and the Ten Kings Pavilion built at the beginning of Nurhachi's move to Shenyang. The middle road is divided into several groups of buildings, such as "grand Palace palace" before the customs clearance, "xinggong Palace" added after the customs clearance, shengjing Taimiao, etc. West Road is mainly for the qianlong period to add the wen Su Pavilion, stage and other buildings. The third road building took nearly 160 years to complete, showing the architectural characteristics of different periods.

The Shenyang Imperial Palace contains rich traditional Manchu culture, gathers the architectural decoration elements of the Han, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan ethnic groups, integrates the architectural features of the royal buildings and local folk houses, represents the highest technical and artistic achievements of the palace buildings before the entrance of the Qing Dynasty, and has high historical, artistic and scientific value. In 1961, shenyang Palace Museum was announced by The State Council as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units; It was added to the World Cultural Heritage List in 2004.