Shenyang Forbidden City, how long did they sit politically at that time?
Surprisingly, however, in the early morning of March 3, 1625, Nurhachi suddenly called his ministers and Baylor to discuss the matter and proposed to move the capital to Shengjing (now Shenyang). The ministers immediately strongly opposed it, but Nurhachi insisted on his own ideas.
Why did Nurhachi "hastily move the capital"? It has been circulated among the people: Nurhachi believed in "traditional Feng Shui" and built Niangniang Temple in the southwest corner of Tokyo at that time according to Mr. Feng Shui's instructions; Building Mituo Temple at the East Gate; Thousands of Buddhist temples were built at the foot of Fengling Mountain, and three temples were used to hold the dragon and let Long Mai continue to be king.
However, the Three Temples only suppressed the dragon head, the dragon claw and the dragon tail, but the dragon backbone in the city was not suppressed. So the dragon bent over and flew away, flying north to the north bank of Hunhe River. Hanwang thought that the dragon came from heaven and ordered him to build another city in the land of Longgan, so a new city sprang up and named it "Fengtian". Because the Hunhe River was called Shenshui in ancient times, and the north bank of the river was Yang (the rules of Yin and Yang in Feng Shui are: Shan Zhinan is Yang, the north of the water is Yin, the south of the water is Yin, and the north of the water is Yang), it is also called "Shenyang".
Of course, this legend seems amazing, but Professor Aarif Lee, a member of the National Committee for the Compilation of Qing History, and Tong Yue, director of the research office of Shenyang Palace Museum, said that Feng Shui has always been the first place to build a capital and a city. Shenyang is located in the Yang of Hunhe River, which is connected with Liaohe River, and Liaohe River is connected with the sea. It can be described as a "land of feng shui".
However, two experts also pointed out that the main purpose of Nurhachi's move to Shenyang should be strategic progress. First of all, Shenyang is a place extending in all directions, and its geographical position is very favorable to the Manchu at that time. There are Mongolia in the north, Ming Dynasty in the west and North Korea in the south. Secondly, the contradiction between Manchu and Han nationalities in Liaoyang, the former capital, was serious, while Shenyang was only a medium-sized city with a small population, which was easy to manage and avoided the intensification of Manchu-Han contradictions.