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SHOUXIAN PALACE, featured in Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (2023, Best Genre Artistic Contribution – 80th Venice International Film Festival), serves as the empress’s residence. This mass-timber structure blends symbolic meaning with cinematic function through intricate joinery, ornamental dougong, and soaring zaojing that express a maternal presence while supporting dynamic action scenes. Gentle curves and traditional thatched roofs evoke humility, desolation, and femininity within the imperial narrative.