A Journey to Shenyang | Tripcango.com

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I decided to stop in Shenyang on my way back to Beijing from Dalian. I wanted to find a place to relax and enjoy the food, and Shenyang seemed like the perfect choice. I traveled with my family and spent 4 days in Shenyang at a cost of about 1500 RMB per person.

We traveled to and from Shenyang by train, and in the city we mainly took the subway and cabs, and occasionally used shared bikes. We stayed at the same hotel we stayed at last time, but unfortunately, the surrounding area was under extensive road construction, and the entire building next door was being demolished, so it was a mess, and the intersections around us were jammed, so we couldn't get back to the hotel by taxi.

Speaking of the city's attractions, if it is the first time to Shenyang, I recommend the Forbidden City, the Marshal's Palace and this time to go to the Qing Zhaoling Mausoleum as a must-go place. If you have enough time, the Industrial Museum is also worth a visit. If it is the second or more times to Shenyang, you can arrange the itinerary at will.

Below is a detailed description of the Beiling Park and Qing Zhaoling. Beiling Park is the common name of Shenyang Zhaoling, in 1927 Fengtian Provincial Government of Qing Zhaoling into a park, because it is located in the northern part of the city, so the name of Beiling Park, after the expansion, it is now a combination of mausoleums, buildings, scenic views, modern amusement facilities and natural scenery, is the largest area of Shenyang's park. On weekends, it is a good place for citizens and tourists to relax, with amusement facilities, gardens, snacks and boats. There are also a lot of people dancing, playing music, singing, rollerblading and biking (bikes can be rented in the park). There is no need for visitors to come to this park alone if they do not plan to visit Qing Zhaoling.

The Qing Zhaoling Mausoleum was completed in 1643, the same year that Emperor Huang Taiji of the Qing Dynasty was buried here. 1650, the first year of Shunzhi's reign, the mausoleum was given the name “Zhaoling Mausoleum”. 1657, Empress Bordjigit, the Empress of Filial Piety Duanwen, was also buried here. The plan layout of the building follows the principle of the mausoleum of “front and back”, which is divided into three parts from the south to the north: the front, the middle and the back, and the main buildings are all on the central axis, which are arranged symmetrically on both sides and very neatly, and it is one of the most well-preserved ancient emperor's mausoleum buildings in China. Architectural form into the local characteristics of the period of the rise of the Manchu and national style, is a typical example of the integration of Manchu and Chinese culture in the imperial tomb architecture. 2004, it was included in the list of world cultural heritage, is one of the scenic spots in Shenyang, well worth a visit.
The opening hours of Beiling Park are: April 1 - October 31, 04:00 - 22:00; November 1 - March 31, 08:00 - 16:00, you can take the subway line 2 and get off at the “Beiling Park” station, which is the south gate of the park. Tickets are 5 yuan per person for the park, 40 yuan per person for the mausoleum and 20 yuan per person for the pavilion.

After entering the park, you can see a stone pagoda, which was built in the Shunzhi or Kangxi years, for the imitation wood frame structure, there are 4 columns, 3, 3 floors, hermetic roof, the body of the square carved with a variety of floral patterns, vivid and realistic. The whole stone workshop is finely carved, which can be regarded as a fine art of stone carving. Across the stone bridge (also known as the Bridge of God), came to the entrance to the Zhaoling Mausoleum. The park provides paid battery cars to and from the south gate.

The main red gate is the main entrance to the mausoleum, and the courtyards on either side are the Changyi Pavilion in the east and the Zaijia Pavilion in the west. After passing through the Main Red Gate, you come to the central area of the Zhaoling Mausoleum, which is dominated by stone sculptures of Huabiao, lions, stone haetae, stone unicorns, white horses, camels, and elephants. These are unique structures from ancient times, which were originally used to ward off demons and evil spirits, but later became symbols of the status of the deceased. Further on is the Stele Pavilion, with the “Zhaoling Divine Merit and Sacred Virtue Stele”, which records the merits and virtues of Huang Taiji's life.

Here on both sides of the house is a separate fee for the exhibition - mausoleum palace relics and high imitation of the Qing dynasty artifacts one, two, three exhibition room. Out of the Pavilion that is to the Longen Gate, that is, the main gate of the square city, square platform masonry structure, a single arched doorway lintel in the middle of the stone door, the top of the Manchurian, Mongolian, Chinese 3 kinds of characters vertically engraved with the “Longen Gate” 3 words. Longen door built on the tall three-drop hermitage-style doorway, commonly known as the five phoenix building.

After the Long'en Gate, there is Fangcheng. Above the gate tower, you can climb up, it is recommended from the Long'en Gate up and down, crescent moon city stirrups are very steep. Fangcheng four corners have corner towers. Inside the square city, there are Longen Hall, East and West Hall, East and West fruit drying room and burning silk pavilion. Fangcheng built in the first year of the Shunzhi Qing Dynasty (1644), modeled on the outline of the Shengjing capital of the castle shape construction, is the epitome of the Shengjing City, but also the main ritual area of the Zhaoling Mausoleum. The city is 6.15 meters high, 146 meters long north-south, 120 meters long east-west, the city wall is made of green bricks, the doorway on both sides of the stirrups can be up and down, this shape is like a castle square city is one of the characteristics of the Zhaoling Mausoleum.

Corner tower for the heavy eaves hiatus cross ridge, yellow glazed roof, four sides out of the corridor, inside and outside the eaves of the Liangfang full of colorful paintings. The ridge is decorated with glazed gourd, flying eaves under the four corners of the wind chimes. Corner of the building for officers and soldiers to climb the tower to see, play a role in protecting the safety of the mausoleum. Longen Hall, also known as the “Hall of Enjoyment”, Chongde eight years (1643 years) September draft, Shunzhi seven years (1650 years) in November named “Longen Hall”. Kangxi thirty-one years (1692) remodeling. Longen Hall is a place for enshrining the mausoleum owner Huang Taiji and Empress Xiaoduanwen's tablets, but also the main place for engaging in ritual activities.

Behind the Long'en Hall, there is a two-pillar gate, a stone five-supply and a coupon hole gate. At the top of the gate is the Daming Building.