Linyou County
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Linyou County is a county of Baoji, in the west of Shaanxi province, China, bordering Gansu province to the north and northwest. Linyou was first established over 2,200 years ago as Duyang County. Loc
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Palace of Nine Perfections
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The Palace of Nine Perfections was a summer palace of the Chinese Tang dynasty, located in Linyou in the Qin Mountains north-west of the imperial capital Chang'an.
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…km (99 mi) from Xi'an and 110 km (68 mi) from Baoji, it was a popular place for poets, painters and nobility to enjoy the landscape. The Sui dynasty Renshou Palace and Tang dynasty Jiucheng Palace were built in Linyou, of which archeological remains have been excavated. They were described by the famous poet Du…
"Emperor Taizong Arriving at the Jiucheng Palace" – a Ming dynasty painting from around 1500 in the style of Li Sixun.
"The Palace of Nine Perfections" – a set of twelve scrolls on silk by Yuan Jiang. This was inked and painted in 1691 and so includes impressions of the contemporary Kangxi Emperor as well as an imagining of the long-lost palace.