Li Zicheng's Palace - China Travel

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Li Zicheng's palace is located on Panlong Mountain in the north of Mizhi County, and it is now included in the campus of Mizhi No. 1 Middle School. In the 16th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, after Li Zicheng established the Dashun Kingdom in Xi'an, he ordered people to build a palace and ancestral tomb here, and the name of the mountain came from this. The palace is exquisitely conceived, unique in shape, surrounded by mountains and dangerous, with 2 floors and 90 steps at the front and back. The main buildings include Le Tower, Plum Blossom Pavilion, Pengsheng Tower, Yuhuang Pavilion, Qingxiang Hall and Beiqing Palace, etc. It is a unique palace garden tourist area in northern Shaanxi. There is also an exhibition of Mizhi women's revolutionary history in the palace.

Panlong Mountain was originally named Ma'an Mountain. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Zhenwu Patriarch Temple was built on the mountain. In the 16th year of Chongzhen (1643), Li Zicheng, king of Chuang, established the Dashun regime in Xi'an, and sent his nephew Li Guo back to Mizhi to visit the tomb. Li Guo led 30,000 troops to station at the foot of the mountain, and expanded the Zhenwu Patriarch Temple on the mountain into a palace. In November of the same year, Li Zicheng led the army back to Mizhi to attend the memorial ceremony. He was very happy to see the majestic architecture of the palace, so he named the mountain Panlong Mountain, the main hall of the palace was Qixiang Hall, and the back hall was Zhaoqing Palace. After the failure of Li Zicheng's uprising, the local people erected statues of Zhenwu Patriarch to protect the buildings, and the palace became a temple again.

In recent years, the local government has repaired the palace, restored its original scale and landscape, and established a memorial hall for Li Zicheng to introduce his life and deeds. In the main hall, there is a glass and steel cast of Li Zicheng. At present, the Mizhi County Museum is also located in the palace, displaying the Eastern Han Dynasty stone portraits and other historical relics unearthed in Mizhi. Climbing up to the front building that rises from the sky and leaning on the railing, you can have a panoramic view of the mountains and rivers.