In order to match the requirement of basic construction, from May to August, in 2012, Shenyang Municipal Cultural Relics and Archaeological Research Institute conducted a series of excavations at the Beizhong Street of Shenhe District, where a group of buildings from the early Qing Dynasty were found. A total of 1,600 square meters were excavated. According to historical records, with the evidence of unearthed architectural enclosing wall and remains, this group of architecture must have been the Khan’s Palace site.
The Khan’s Palace was built by the first founder of Qing Dynasty, i.e., Nur Rihachi, after the movement of capital to Shenyang during the fifth-year of Tianqi Emperor of Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1625).
This group of buildings is situated at the Beizhong Street to the north, and Jiumen Road to the south. To its north, the architecture was facing to the Jiumen Site of Shenjing City of Qing Dynasty, and Tongtian Street to its south. With the evidence of investigations, facing to Jiumen Site on its central axis, external walls of the northern enclosing wall of the architecture only had 10.6 meter distance from the surface of internal walls.
Oriented from the north to south, the site is consisted of Duplicate courtyard, 41.5 meter in length. Due the badly damage on both sides to the east and west, it is difficult to assure its width.
In the first courtyard, there only remain a gate and southern enclosing wall, without any other contemporary building. Facing the south, the large gate has three stone-bases of the column on both sides to the east and west. The three stones-bases were lined up on both sides from the north to south. The middle stone-base was built inside the door side-wall. The stone-bases differ in shape, with four rounded, one round-angled square, and one irregularly rectangular dimension. Therefore, the gate may have measured 3.4 meter long from the east to west, 3.4 meter long from the north to south. This kind of gate, broad and bright, may have been used especially for the elite people of Qing Dynasty.
The west side of the courtyard was disturbed by two houses foundation of the late Qing Dynasty, while its east side was disturbed by a high platform from later period. Within the first courtyard, the southern enclosing wall measures one meter wide, 17.75 meter preserved from the gate to the west, and 8.4 meter to the east. The enclosing wall to the east and west side had remained almost nothing. Southern wall only preserved with two layers of bricks. The blue bricks on the bottom were erected and stacked one by one, with the upper layer of blue bricks horizontally placed, outlined by the clay. Walls were lined by bricks all over the four-side surface, with the central part filled with fragmentary bricks. This construction theory is that walls were enclosed by the bricks, prevalent during the Ming-qing Periods, called “gold inlaid with the jade”.
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