Shenyang Palace Museum of the Ming & Qing Dynasty’s Imperial Palace:
Hello, everyone! Welcome to Shenyang Palace Museum of the Ming & Qing Dyn-asty’s Imperial Palace. I’m your tour guide, Vickey. I wish you guys can have a won-derful time with us and make a lot friends during this trip.
The construction style of Shenyang Imperial Palace belongs to Ming and Qing. So it’s called Shenyang Palace Museum of the Ming & Qing Dynasty’s Imperial Palace. Well, talking about the palace of China, you guys probably will say the Forbidden City of Beijing, it is kind of the most popular one for foreigners. These two palaces have some similarities and difference. Our Shenyang Imperial Palace is famous because Qing Dyn-asty’s founder Nuerhachi and his son Huangtaiji had lived here. And with the expansion of the Qing Dynasty, they moved to Beijing. They are the two royal palaces well kept in China. Shenyang Imperial Palace was started in 1625 and was roughly accomplished in 1636 during the reign of Nuerhachi and Huangtaiji. So it has over 360 years history. After them, four emperors of Qing Dynasty had come back from Beijing to this palace for 10 times and enlarged this area and added a lot buildings. They were Emperor Kangxi, Qi-anlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang. You probably have heard of the Kangxi and Qianlong. Cause they lead to the most affluent period of China. Therefore, until 1783 the palace was finally finished. Shenyang Imperial Palace was entitled \"Historic Culture Relics Pre-served Buildings\" in 1961. This palace is an emperor museum combining the architec-tural styles of the minorities of Man, Han and Mongolia. It covers an area of 60,000 square meters, comprising over 20 courtyards, 300 houses and 70 buildings. According
to the build time and layout, the whole construction is divided into three sections: the east, middle and west.
Please follow me to visit this three section.
