由遼寧省沈陽市和平區政府斥資，歷時2年修繕改造的中國唯一錫伯族家廟，7日正式面向社會公眾開放，當日恰逢錫伯族西遷紀念日。
Shenyang (CNS) -- The only existing ancestral temple in China for the Xibe minority was officially opened to the public on June 7 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, after a two-year renovation funded by the local government.
This day is also the anniversary of their movement westward in the mid 18 century. In the Qing Dynasty, 1,018 officers and soldiers of the Xibe, a group known for their archery skills, and some 2,257 of their family members were deployed by the government to station themselves in Xinjiang. The temple was where the group moving to the west bade farewell to the ones left in the northeast.
The Xibe ethnic minority today amounts to a population of 100,000 or more distributed over northern China from the Ili area in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the west to the northeast provinces of Jilin and Liaoning.
The temple that figures so prominently in the group's history is also known as the Taiping Temple. It was first founded in 1707 by Xibe people and survived several conflicts that left it damaged. The first overall renovation by the government was started in 2003.
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