Shenyang's forbidden city

Forbidden City at Shenyang (at Northeast of China) ? You may think I'm kidding. No, there are another Forbidden City at Shenyang, I just visited there during Chinese New Year.


Shenyang is the capital city of Liaoning province of China, and it was homeland of the Manchus who ruled China during Qing Dynasty.

The old buildings are still in use now, but is no longer the boundary of the city. The inside of the palace is almost identical to that of Beijing. The Manchus copied the Forbidden City in China and built it in Shenyang, the first two emperors did stay here but after that other emperors treated it as a holiday palace.

Royal palaces in China has a similar format, red walls and yellow roof. The format here is a little different, note the layer of green tiles below the yellow roof. The green tiles resemble the green grassland, an important root of the Manchus.