2010年7月28日星期三

Trip to Xi'an



I have been in Xi’an this summer, for a splendid China tour. And I learnt a lot and experienced a lot about China history.
Xi'an, the capital of Shannxi Province,is stuated in the fertile Wei River Valley. One of the few Chinese cities where the ancient fortress walls can still be seen. Xi'an dates back more than 3,000 years and has impressive collection of archaeological relies to help explain its rich history. Formerly known as Chang'an("eternal Peace"),the city of Xi'an had served as a capital under 13 dynasties.
Xi'an is vest known as within the local arts and crafts community for its thriving archaeological reproduction industry, which features painted Neolothic pottery; life-size Qin Terra-Cotta Warriors figures, glazed Tang funeral wares,and Tang tomb murals. A wide variety of folk crafts is also produced in the region,including needlework,ceramics,paper cuts,and rubbing(made from the impressions of stone carvings). For visitors who travel China, it is a big attraction to visit Xi’an.
China had 231 emperors and one ruling empress, 79 of whom were buried in Shaanxi. One imperial mausoleum in Shaanxi,which apples to most of visitors,is the Oianling Tomb where Wu Zetian, China's only tuling empress, and her hubband Li Zhi, who has Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Emperor Qin shihuang's Terra-Cotta Warriors and Horses acclaimed as the "Star Pool" in the Zhou Dynasty 2,800 years ago,the Neolithic Banpo Museum with a history of 6,000 years---an important excavated restored Neolothic Chinese village, the China's best-preserved Ancient City Wall built in the early Ming Dynasty(1368-1644), the Big Wild Goose Pagoda erected in 652, the Forest of Steles, the largest stone library in China and also called a treasure house of Chinese calligraphy with a superb collection by famous calligraphers form Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) to Qing Dynasty(1644-1911).
My next destination is Luoyang, another ancient capital city in Chinese history, believe that I will get much to see.

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