When it comes to the most popular attractions in Xi'an on Jitterbug, in addition to the bowl of wine in Yongxingfang, it is the Datang Hibiscus Garden that has been "shaken" by tourists from all walks of life. As a must-see attraction in Xi'an, you can travel through the Tang Dynasty during the daytime and experience the heyday of the Tang Dynasty in the Hibiscus Garden. At night, in the Hibiscus Garden to see the bright night scene of the Tang Dynasty, a day can feel the full Tang Dynasty more than 200 years of the world's prosperity.
A Brief Introduction to Xi'an Hibiscus Garden
Xi'an Hibiscus Garden is China's first large-scale royal garden-style cultural theme park that displays the full range of the Tang Dynasty, and is built to the north of the site of the original Tang Dynasty Hibiscus Garden, which has set a number of records in China's and even the world's history. It has the world's largest water show and is the first theme park with "five senses" (i.e., sight, sound, smell, touch and taste).
Xi'an Datang Hibiscus Garden is also home to the world's largest outdoor aroma project, and is the country's largest complex of royal buildings modeled after the Tang Dynasty, combining the best of Chinese garden and architectural art. It contains many attractions such as the Ziyun Building, the Ladies' Pavilion, the Imperial Banquet Palace, the Fanglin Garden, the Phoenix Nine Heavenly Theater, the Apricot Garden, the Lu Yu Tea House, the Tang Market, and the Qujiang River Drinking Stream.
Second, the opening time and tickets
Opening time: daily 9:00 - 22:00 (21:00 stop entering the venue)
Tickets: 108 yuan in the peak season, 90 yuan in the off-season (this price is for online booking only, does not include the "Datang Chasing Dreams" performance ticket.)
Another: Holding a local ID card can apply for the Datang Hibiscus Garden annual card for 150 yuan, local college students holding student ID cards and ID cards for the annual card for 50 yuan, the annual card can be unlimited access to the park throughout the year.
It is recommended that you buy your own drinking water before entering the scenic area, the scenic area to Nongfusanquan, for example, 6 yuan per bottle.
Third, the scenic spot location and ride route
Address: No. 99 Furong West Road, Qujiang New District, Xi'an City
Subway: the Bell Tower as the starting point for travel: ① from the Bell and Drum Tower Plaza, walk about 630 meters, to reach the Bell Tower station; ② ride the subway line 2, after 4 stops, to arrive at the Xiaozhai station; ③ ride the subway line 3, after 1 station, arrive at the Big Wild Goose Pagoda station; ④ walk about 1.8 kilometers, arrive at the Datang Hibiscus Garden.
Public transportation: 21, 22, 24, 41, 212, 224, 237, 320 (tour 9), 601, 609, 610, 715, 720 can be reached.
Special Note: Datang Hibiscus Garden Station is divided into West Gate Station and South Gate Station (of which there are two West Gate Stations). The Datang Hibiscus Garden is now open to the North Gate (Chunming Gate), West Gate (Yuyuan Gate) and Tang City entrances and exits, of which the West Gate is the main gate, and general tourists enter from this gate.
Fourth, the recommended attractions
There are many attractions to play in the Tang Hibiscus Garden, here we focus on a few of the most interesting attractions:
1, the Silver Bridge Waterfall
The design of the Silver Bridge Waterfall comes from the Tang Dynasty. The design of the Silver Bridge Waterfall comes from the legend of the Tang Dynasty, "the white dragon shows its spirit". According to legend, this is the place where Bukong Sanzang threw a wooden dragon to become a real white dragon to show his spirit to rain. When you arrive at this attraction, walk on the Furong Bridge, look at the steep rocks in front of you, filled with water mist, in the steamy bridge, as if the next second the white dragon will rise up from the water again.
2, Qujiang River
This is one of the eight scenic spots in Chang'an. The river used to be the place where the emperor gave a banquet to the high school graduates of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, these graduates gathered at the side of the river, and while enjoying the beautiful scenery, they put the wine cups in the curved water, and the cups floated along the water, and the cups flowed in front of whoever had to write a poem according to the rhyme, and the crowd evaluated the poems, and the ones who didn't do well had to be punished with three cups of wine. The current design is also similar to the design of the time, it is a natural landscape landscape form, creating a natural, calm, quiet, subtle landscape atmosphere, so you arrive here, you can also imitate the custom of the Tang Dynasty, and friends drink and talk, feel the Tang Dynasty style of life.
3, Tang City
"The usual things in the city, the most lively place". Tang City is the most prosperous bazaar in ancient times, where merchants from different countries gather and bustle on the street. All kinds of commodities are so abundant that people are overwhelmed. Various colors of songs and dances, theater, acrobatic stunts are frequently staged, everywhere is a prosperous business, bustling scene.
The Tang Market in the present Datang Hibiscus Garden consists of Tang Bazaar, Tribute Street and Hundred Opera Street, with an area of 12122 square meters, which is a Tang Dynasty custom and culture street integrating viewing, amusement, recreation, experience, exchange and consumption, featuring handicrafts, folk art, Hundred Opera, food and drinks, tea and wine culture, fine arts and calligraphy and other special projects. Here, you can experience everything about the Tang city, even if you don't buy anything, just wandering around for an hour is still enjoyable.
4. Tang Dynasty Poetry Culture Theme Area
"Read 300 Tang poems familiarly, and you can chant even if you don't know how to compose poems". The Tang Dynasty was the climax of the development of poetry, and this period saw the emergence of famous poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Li He, and so on, and the poems written by them were "unprecedented", and no one can surpass their writings later.
The Tang Dynasty Poetry Culture Theme Area, which is based on Tang Dynasty poetry, uses more than 2,000 cubic meters of stone, covers an area of 1,480 square meters, and carves 25 famous poets of the Tang Dynasty and many Tang poems. If you are interested in Tang poetry, I suggest you must go to this area, when you see so many Tang poems and poets towering over the peaks, I think you will be very shocked.
5, Qujiang Hu store
Tang Chang'an is an open international metropolis, so the Tang Chang'an city Hu people gathered, they are here in business and open store, many Hu stores, most of them are operating jewelry and grocery business, but also wine shop is the main industry. The waitresses of the wine shop were beautiful women from the western region, known as "Hu Ji". Hu Ji wine shop in the Tang Dynasty was very popular, Tang Hu women than Tang women can attract customers, they have exotic beauty, but also has its superb singing and dancing skills, it is very popular with officials and literati. It is said that Li Bai was the most favorite patron of the Hu people wine shop of a poet, the so-called "fall flowers step on all the tour where, laughing into the Hu Ji wine shop".
The newly renovated Qujiang Hu Shop in the Datang Hibiscus Garden is an expression of the hu stores in Chang'an City, where the culture of the Central Plains and the exotic cultures of the surrounding countries mingled with each other. The store will organize a variety of activities and exquisite, especially the goods, for us to reproduce the prosperity of the Great Tang Dynasty, "eight parties to the dynasty, the four seas to congratulate, the world's treasures, all the accumulation of", we recommend that you must enter the Hu store to experience the charm of this exotic culture.
6, Caixia Pavilion, Ladies Hall
The Tang Dynasty was a very open era, so the women of this era is also quite open, they are emancipated, optimistic and confident, boldly involved in politics, and the pursuit of their own love, they are fat for the beauty of the dress is bold and open, the men can do what they can do as well.
Caixia Pavilion and the Hall of Ladies is to show the open society of the Tang Dynasty women's "women's style, dare to compete with the men of the world, tenderness three thousand, across the ancient and modern to stay in the name of the spirit of the". The Caixia Pavilion and the Ladies' Pavilion have a combination of pavilions and corridors, and mirror pillars inside, providing a 360-degree view of the lives of 100 outstanding women of the Tang Dynasty. These two attractions suggest you must visit, they will impress you with the women of the Tang Dynasty.
7, Apricot Garden
History of the Tang Dynasty Apricot Garden because the garden is full of planted apricot trees, so the name of the Apricot Garden, is a famous garden scenic area, there are "ten acres to open the gold, a thousand cups of hair apricot blossoms," said, Apricot Garden is the Tang Dynasty, the new scholar held in the Apricot Garden to explore the flowers of the feast place. Apricot Garden in the most interesting program is the flower game, that is, the beginning of the banquet, we elected two young scholar riding to the streets of Chang'an to look for the most beautiful flowers, and pick for everyone to enjoy, if there are other scholar picked flowers than the two young Jun's good-looking, then the two young Jun will be punished by the wine.
Now the Apricot Garden is a courtyard-style imitation of Tang Dynasty architecture, around the gurgling water, copper sculpture embellishment, elegant and pleasant environment, around a week, as if you can still feel the then new scholar "spring wind horse hoofs fast, a day to see all the flowers of the Chang'an" unlimited scenery, complacency and full of ambition of the scene.
8, Lu Yu Tea Club
China's tea culture has a long history, whether it is the ancient literati, or Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and other sects, are tea as a medium to pass the values of tea is not only a beverage, but also their transmission of "unity of man and nature, heaven and earth," a concept, the essence of the tea ceremony. Tea is not only a beverage, but also a way for them to convey the concepts of "unity of heaven and man, heaven and earth". The essence of the tea ceremony lies in the concepts of "purity, quietness, elegance, and harmony", with "harmony" being the highest state of the tea ceremony. As we all know, Lu Yu compiled the "Tea Classic", and formally introduced these concepts into the tea ceremony, so the tea ceremony in China is also profound.
Lu Yu Tea House is based on the Tang Dynasty Tea House design and construction, into the Tea House, green bamboo pieces, water gurgling, clean rooms and elegant houses will unknowingly make you feel as if you have entered the tea tasted high people living in the mountains of the immortal residence. In Lu Yu Tea House, not only can you drink very good tea, but also to watch the exquisite tea performance.
9, large laser water screen movie
The water screen movie is a very special attraction in the Datang Hibiscus Garden, when the night falls, standing on the steps of the Purple Cloud Building, vivid three-dimensional characters in the wide water screen, vivid, lifelike; colorful flowers in the air, streaming reflection in the lake, with the sound of music and music. Lake, with the melodious music, accompanied by jumping flames rising in the fountain, water mine exploding in the water mist, laser flashes in the night, you will marvel at the spectacle of water and fire, light and color changes, as if through the time tunnel, into the distant Tang Dynasty to feel the flourishing of the Great Tang.
Special Note: Go to the Datang Hibiscus Garden, you must see the laser water screen movie at night.
10, Datang Hibiscus Garden, "Datang Dream" show
Datang Hibiscus Garden from 11:00 in the morning, to the end of the night 21:00, there will be a variety of performances, you go, you can enjoy its various performances, the following is the schedule of its performances:
Performers admission.
Datang Hibiscus Garden: Of course, the Datang Hibiscus Garden is not only the above list of fun, there are many more fun projects waiting for you. If you have extra time in Xi'an, and you are interested in Tang culture, you should go to Datang Hibiscus Garden. It's a great place to see the culture of the Tang Dynasty! The culture of the Tang Dynasty is all condensed here.