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 The Shenyang
Imperial Palace is located at Shenyang City, Liaoning Province;
it enjoys equal popularity as the Beijing Palace Museum.
It was the imperial palace built by Nurhachu,
chief and his heir Huangtaiji (the predecessor of the Man nationality).
It has a history of 400 years and a cluster of palaces surrounded
from east, middle and west sides, the layout of which appears
to be natural, sublime and imposing. It is the most intact imperial
building ever existing in history only second to the Beijing
Palace Museum. It is famous for its strong characteristics of
the Man nationality. The shenyang Imperial Palace is very rich
in cultural relics and has now been turned into a museum.
The Shenyang Palace Museum has possessed
a huge collection of valuable palace cultural relics of Qing
dynasty. "The Tiger-veined Double-Edged Sword" is
the most famous among all artifacts used by Nurhachu, the first
emperor of Qing dynasty. "The Nurhachu's imperial jade
seal" is square in shape with a dragon-buttoned ribbon
on it. The seal face is carved with Man and Han languages, which
is intricately laid out with power and grandeur. There are also
such valuable cultural relics as waist sword, bow and arrow,
"imperial jade seal' "jade belt" and the chimes,
etc. bells, etc.
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