Where to Go on Weekends｜Guide to Visiting the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum

📷When it comes to the Imperial Palace, many people will think of Beijing first, but in fact, besides Beijing, there is also an Imperial Palace in the northeast of our country - the Shenyang Imperial Palace. 🎉The Shenyang Imperial Palace, also known as the Shengjing Imperial Palace, was built in 1625 and is one of the two most complete royal palace complexes in China, the other being the well-known Beijing Imperial Palace. 🌸The Shenyang Imperial Palace was originally the royal garden used by Emperor Nurhaci and Emperor Huang Taiji in the early Qing Dynasty. After the Qing Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing, it became a 'secondary palace'. The current Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum is an ancient palace art museum built on the basis of its palace, and was upgraded to a national first-class museum in 2017, with a collection of over 100,000 cultural relics. 🌺The total area of the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum is about 63,000 square meters, including more than 100 buildings such as palaces, pavilions, platforms, towers, lofts, and dining halls, and more than 500 rooms. According to the architectural layout, it can be divided into three parts: the east road, the middle road, and the west road. 🌳East Road Mainly the Grand Political Hall and its two sides of the Ten Kings Pavilion (Left Wing King Pavilion, Inlaid Yellow Flag Pavilion, Positive White Flag Pavilion, Inlaid White Flag Pavilion, Positive Blue Flag Pavilion and Right Wing King Pavilion, Positive Yellow Flag Pavilion, Positive Red Flag Pavilion, Inlaid Red Flag Pavilion, Inlaid Blue Flag Pavilion), where the emperor held ceremonies and the Eight Banners ministers worked. 🌳Middle Road Mainly the Daqing Gate, Chongzheng Hall, Phoenix Tower, Qingning Palace, Guanju Palace, Linzhi Palace, Yanqing Palace, Yongfu Palace, etc., where the emperor governed and the concubines lived, presenting a layout of the front court and the back sleeping, the palace is high and the hall is low. 🌳West Road Mainly the Dressing Room, Stage, Jiayin Hall, Palace Gate, Wensu Pavilion, Yangxi Pavilion, Stele Pavilion and Nine Halls, etc., where the Qing Dynasty emperor read books and watched plays when he toured Shengjing, and stored the 'Four Treasures of the Study'. 💰Ticket: 50 yuan 🌱Opening hours: 08:30-17:00 (closed on Mondays, except for statutory holidays) 🌱Address: No. 171 Shenyang Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province 🎊Continuously updating, if you like it, please ➕follow and give a like👍~ Thank you for your support!