One, the city
1. Bell Tower: located in the center of Xi'an, built in Ming 1384, 36 meters high, the external heavy eaves of the 3-story, but the internal only the upper and lower two floors, is our country's ancient wood knot 2. structure building, a huge clock was installed in the upper floor of the original used for alarm chime.
2. Big Wild Goose Pagoda: (National AAAA Scenic Spot) is located in the southern suburbs of Daci'en Temple, is one of China's famous Buddhist pagoda, founded in Tang 652, the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang returned from India to bring back a large number of Sanskrit classics and Buddha's image of the relics in order to worship and storage, by Xuanzang on the table requesting the construction of this tower. It is characterized by brick structure reflects the wooden structure of the arch style.
3. Ming City Wall: (National AAAA Scenic Spot) The Ming City Wall is expanded on the basis of the old Tang Imperial City, 12 meters high, 12-14 meters wide at the top, 15-18 meters wide at the bottom, with a circumference of about 13.7 kilometers, and the whole wall is tall and grandiose, encircling around the downtown of Xi'an, which is the landmark of the ancient capital of Xi'an, and is the world's largest and best-preserved ancient fortress. Ancient Castle.
4. The Forest of Stelae: (National AAAA Scenic Spot) Located at the former site of Confucius Temple on Sanxue Street in Xi'an, the Forest of Stelae now collects more than 3,000 pieces of stelae of various generations from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, and is a treasure trove of the art of Chinese calligraphy.
5. Shaanxi History Museum: (National AAAA Scenic Spot) is located 1 kilometer northwest of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, is a national modern large-scale museum, the museum treasures 113,000 pieces of cultural relics unearthed in Shaanxi (group), showing the history from 1.15 million years ago to 1840 A.D., and its collection is the largest in the country.
6. The Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses (National AAAA Tourist Attraction): Located at the northern foot of Mount Li, about 5 kilometers east of the city of Lintong, it is a national key cultural relics protection unit. 1987, UNESCO put the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin (including the Terracotta Warriors and Horses) on the list of the world cultural heritage protection. The Terracotta Warriors are the burial pits of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, located about 1.5 kilometers east of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, and were discovered in 1974, with a grand scale, majestic scenes, and high artistic value. One of the most important contemporary archaeological discoveries.
Second, recommended attractions
1. Huashan (national AAAA tourist area): located in Huayin city south, more than 120 kilometers away from Xi'an, is China's famous mountain "five mountains" in the highest peaks, in the world's leading to the steep, since ancient times is the famous tourist attractions.
2. Hukou Falls of the Yellow River: Located in Hukou Township, 48 kilometers away from the industrial area of Yichuan County, Hukou Falls is the first waterfall of the Yellow River and the second largest waterfall in China after Huangguoshu Falls in Guizhou.
3. Yulin Red Stone Gorge: located 3000 meters north of Yulin city. The canyon is 350 meters long, facing east and west, craggy and majestic. The streams are clear and the banks are verdant with weeping willows. There is the largest cliff stone carving group in Shaanxi.
4. Peach Blossom Garden of Dongjin: Located at No.1, middle section of Shangji Road, Modern Agricultural Comprehensive Development Zone, Xi'an City, the beautiful idyllic scenery, fragrant cauliflower, rolling waves of wheat, white flowers competing for color, and living pigs, dogs, cows, goats, horses, ostriches, fishes, and pigeons add infinite fun to you.
5. Weishui Round Hot Spring Resort: located in Xi'an Modern Agricultural Comprehensive Development Zone (the former Cao Tan Farm Field Department), it is currently the largest set of catering and lodging, recreation and entertainment, planting and breeding as one of the comprehensive tourism and vacation places in Xi'an.
I. Shaanxi
1. Shaanxi (Shaanxi Province), referred to as "Shaanxi" or "Qin", one of the provincial administrative units of the People's Republic of China, the provincial capital of Xi'an. Its geographic location lies between 105°29′~111°15′ east longitude and 31°42′~39°35′ north latitude, and its natural division spans the north and the south along the Qinling-Huai River. Located in the inland hinterland of Northwest China, spanning the middle of the two major basins of the Yellow River and Yangtze River, connecting the eastern and central regions of China and the important hub of Northwest and Southwest...?
2. Shaanxi is China's latitude and longitude datum geodetic origin and Beijing time Chinese Academy of Sciences National Timing Center location. The province has a total area of 205,800 square kilometers, with a resident population of 37.75 million at the end of 2014, under the jurisdiction of one sub-provincial city and nine prefectural-level cities, of which Xi'an and Baoji have urban populations of more than one million.?
3. Shaanxi has a long history and is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization. In ancient times, it was the location of Yongzhou and Liangzhou, the hometown of Emperor Yan Di and the burial place of Emperor Huang Di. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Cheng of the Zhou Dynasty set the boundary with the Shaanxi Plain, and the western part of the plain was under the jurisdiction of Duke Zhao, and later people called the western part of the Shaanxi Plain "Shaanxi". Since ancient times, Shaanxi is the place where emperors and kings built their capitals, and five of the nine monarchical dynasties built their capitals in Xi'an (Xianyang), leaving behind 79 tombs of emperors and kings***, which is known as the "Oriental Pyramid".
4. Shaanxi is one of China's important scientific and educational highlands, with Xi'an Jiaotong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology and other eight 985 or 211 engineering universities. Shaanxi has three nine world heritage sites, namely: the Great Wall, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the Small Wild Goose Pagoda, the Xingjiao Temple Pagoda, the Daming Palace, the Weiyang Palace, the Grottoes of Dafosi Temple in Binxian County, and the Tomb of Zhang Qian.
Two, scenic spots
1. As of 2011, Shaanxi has 35,800 various types of cultural relics points, 151 museums, collections of all kinds of cultural relics 900,000 pieces (groups), the density of cultural relics points, the number of high grade, ranked first in the country. [6]
2. At present, the total number of Class A tourist attractions in Shaanxi Province has reached 257, of which there are 7 national 5A tourist attractions, 70 national 4A tourist attractions, 140 national 3A tourist attractions, 54 national 2A tourist attractions and 2 national 1A tourist attractions.
3. Ancient city ruins, palace ruins, ancient temples, ancient mausoleums, ancient buildings and so on can be seen in Shaanxi, such as the Great Wall, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the First Qin Emperor, the Qianling Tomb, the Maoling Mausoleum, the Yangling Mausoleum, the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, and the Famen Monastery, etc., and the Xi'an City Wall, Xi'an Forest of Stelae, Xi'an Bell and Drum Towers, and large and small Wild Goose Pagodas. In Shaanxi, there are 72 ancient emperors' tombs alone.
4. Rare treasures such as Western Zhou bronzes, Qin Dynasty bronze carriages and horses, Han Dynasty stone carvings, Tang Dynasty gold and silver wares, Song Dynasty porcelains, and monuments and inscriptions of past dynasties are displayed in museums all over Shaanxi, glittering with a dazzling historical aura, from which the former Zhou and Qin elegance, Han and Tang majesty can be glimpsed.
5. In terms of natural landscape, there are Mount Huayin in Huayin City, Mount Taibai in Meixian County, Baoji, as well as Huaqing Pond in Lintong Lishan around Xi'an, Zhanshan Mountain, Cuihua Mountain, and Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River at the junction of Qin and Jin.