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Liao Shangjing Site 辽上京遗址Liáo Shàngjīng Yízhǐ
National heritage site · Chifeng, Inner Mongolia
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Chifeng
- Region
- Inner Mongolia
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Liao Shangjing Site
Shangjing, founded in 918, was the first capital of the Khitan-built Liao dynasty, and its ruins beside the Shali River form a national archaeological site park. The northern imperial city still has rammed-earth walls several metres high, which visitors can follow on a boardwalk through the horseshoe-shaped barbican of the west gate, and the remains of a large Buddhist temple stand on a rise inside the walls. The Liao Shangjing Museum beside the site shows tomb murals, epitaphs, clay arhat figures from the temple and a model of the city.
How to get to Liao Shangjing Site
On the south-eastern edge of Lindong, the Bairin Left Banner seat, about 190 km north of Chifeng. The museum is closed on Mondays.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Zhenji Temple Grottoes (Zhaomiao) 真寂之寺石窟（召庙） (10 km).
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