Shenyang Forbidden City, formerly known as Shengjing Palace, was later called Fengtian Palace. It was the imperial palace before the Qing Dynasty moved into the country and was also the place where the Aixinjueluo family flourished. 380 years ago, the founders of the Qing Dynasty took their final step to conquer the Central Plains here.
Today, 380 years later, a group of well-known domestic scholars recently held an academic seminar to commemorate the founding of the Shenyang Forbidden City. Due to the lack of historical data, there are still many mysteries to be solved in the Shenyang Forbidden City. For this reason, experts hold different opinions and have different opinions. One of the mysteries is that King Han hurriedly moved the capital just to protect the country? In 1621 AD, Nurhaci led the Eight Banners army to advance into Liaodong with an unstoppable momentum, and moved the capital from Hetuala to Liaoyang, an important town in Liaodong. He carried out large-scale construction and built palaces. However, unexpectedly, during the early morning court meeting on the third day of March 1625, Nurhachi suddenly summoned ministers and Baylor for discussion and proposed moving the capital to Shengjing (today's Shenyang). The princes and ministers immediately opposed strongly, but Nurhaci insisted on his own idea.
Why did Nurhachi move the capital in such a "hasty manner"? It has been rumored among the people that Nurhachi believed deeply in "traditional Feng Shui". According to the instructions of Mr. Feng Shui, he built the Niangniang Temple in the southwest corner of Tokyo at that time, the Amitabha Temple in the east gate, and the Thousand Buddha Temple at the foot of Fengling Mountain. He wanted to use three temples Suppress the dragon to preserve the dragon's royal energy.
However, the three temples only suppressed the dragon's head, dragon's claws and dragon's tail, and the dragon's spine in the city was not suppressed. So as soon as the dragon arched its waist, it was about to fly away, flying north to the north bank of the Hun River. King Han thought that Long was serving heaven's will and ordered him to build another city in the place where Long was hiding. So a new city was built and named "Fengtian". And because the Hun River was called Shenshui in ancient times, and the north bank of the river was Yang (the rules about yin and yang in Feng Shui are: the south of the mountain is yang, the north is yin, the south of the water is yin, and the north is yang), it is also called "Shenyang".
Of course, the legend seems too magical, but Professor Li Zhiting, a member of the National Qing History Compilation Committee, and Tong Yue, director of the Research Office of the Shenyang Palace Museum, said that Feng Shui has always been given top priority when building capitals and cities. Shenyang is located on the Yangtze River of the Hun River, on the Liao River, and the Liao River leads to the sea. It can be said to be a "geomantic treasure land".
However, the two experts also pointed out that the main purpose of Nurhaci moving the capital to Shenyang should be strategic advancement considerations. First of all, Shenyang is connected in all directions, and its geographical location was very advantageous for the Manchus at that time. They could conquer Mongolia in the north, the Ming Dynasty in the west, and Korea in the south, and they could advance and retreat freely. Secondly, the original capital, Liaoyang, had serious conflicts between the Manchu and Han ethnic groups. At that time, Shenyang was only a medium-sized city with a small population and easy management, which could avoid the intensification of the Manchu-Han conflict.