Liao-style Folk Town

Liao-style Folk Town lies east of East Lake New Town and borders the Shenyang-Kangping Expressway to the west. The planned area covers 6 square kilometres. Surrounded by low rolling hills and adjacent to the East Lake water system, the town boasts pleasant scenery and convenient transportation. Built on imitation ancient architecture of the Liao Dynasty, the town integrates Liao architectural features into modern buildings, forming an antique town with distinctive Liao folk customs.

The main gate and sculptures are rich in Liao historical elements. The statue of Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Dynasty, the ox-head main gate, folk-custom sculptures and Liao relief murals stand amid the sacred mountains and clear waters of Faku, praying for local people to live and work in peace and contentment with happy lives.

The main gate is designed into an ox-head shape with bold and unrestrained lines, fully reflecting the grassland culture of the Khitan people. In Khitan nomadic culture, horses, cattle and sheep represented wealth. Meanwhile, the design highlights Faku’s industrial brand as "China’s Cattle County".

Saddle sculptures and stone ox sculptures embody the nomadic traditions of the Khitan, showing their admiration for horses and their aspirations to gallop freely across the grasslands.

The relief The Chanyuan Treaty depicts the scene in January 1005 when Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao and Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty signed a peace pact. The treaty put an end to more than 40 years of warfare between the two dynasties and ushered in over a century of peace. It boosted economic and cultural exchanges between Song and Liao, promoting economic growth, cultural prosperity and ethnic integration among the Chinese nation.

In another relief, a Khitan tribesman leads a horse, with two Khitan children beside a copper coin. This pattern symbolizes wealth and good fortune, representing the ancient Khitan people’s longing for prosperity and happy lives.

The relief of the Green Ox and White Horse Legend tells the origin story of the Khitan nation. Two ancestors, one riding a green ox and the other a white horse, met at Muye Mountain. They married and gave birth to eight sons, who later founded the Eight Khitan Tribes