Xi'an has a Big Wild Goose Pagoda and a Small Wild Goose Pagoda, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is outside the city, is the starting point of the land Silk Road, and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda is in the city's central axis, also known as the Recommendation of Good fortune Temple, a translation of the temple, but also the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road.
? Perhaps because the Big Wild Goose Pagoda South Square to build a huge fountain square, travelers are more to go to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, more famous, more commercial atmosphere, compared to the Small Wild Goose Pagoda has become very niche. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda entrance fee is 50, while the Small Wild Goose Pagoda is free.
The Small Wild Goose Pagoda is very small, but the area is not small, ancient trees, very cozy!
? Surrounded by ancient trees, the Small Wild Goose Pagoda is 15 stories high, but unfortunately the top of the pagoda collapsed because of the earthquake, and now there are only 13 stories. Originally can climb the tower, but just in time for maintenance, regret!
? Big Wild Goose Pagoda is placed in the monk Xuanzang to take the real scriptures, small Wild Goose Pagoda is placed in the monk Yi Jing to take the real scriptures. Xuanzang traveled the land-based Silk Road, while Yi Jing traveled the sea-based Silk Road from Guangzhou.
? At the bottom of the tower to shoot up, very majestic, the bottom of the tower on each side of a stone monument.
? On both sides of the central axis are acacia, each tree is 1300 years old.
? The citadel on the central axis of the Zhifu Temple, two-story, next to the stairs and walls are covered with creepers.
On both sides of the central axis are the bell tower and drum tower, but unfortunately the door is locked, leaving only a doorway to peek through.
? Taken through the doorway, the drum is huge
? Opposite the Drum Tower is the Bell Tower, which looks a bit more majestic than the Drum Tower, and is considered the attraction of the Small Wild Goose Pagoda: the Morning Bell of the Wild Goose Pagoda.
? I lay down on the back of the window flute to take the picture, inside the bell is very big, but unfortunately the door is locked. Not far from the bell tower there is a replica of the bell, just ran into a group of foreigners, lined up to ring the bell, very excited.
The Small Wild Goose Pagoda has very few people, but the garden is very beautiful, very much like the Temple of Heaven. Xi'an's summer is particularly hot, the daytime probably more than 35 degrees, but in the Small Wild Goose Pagoda but feel a slight coolness, very quiet.
From the side door of the Temple of Recommended Fortune out is a not very big lake, the lake around the planted a circle of bamboo, there are pines and bamboos, quite a style.
? Mr. Zhou said Recommendation of the blessing of the temple feels very much like Chengdu, is also a thousand years old, also planted with ginkgo. The ginkgo tree next to the small canal is already full of ginkgo nuts. We also talked about how there are no northern trees like ginkgo in the Chaoshan area, but the custom of eating white fruits has been preserved, probably because the Chaoshan people moved all the way from Henan to the sea more than 1,000 years ago, and there are mountains in Meizhou blocking the way, so many of the customs are only found in the Central Plains a thousand years ago. (Chaoshan people are southern Henan people, ha)
Xi'an Municipal Museum is in the small wild goose pagoda inside, by the way to see, after all, the good things are in the Shaanxi Museum.
? The first thing you need to do is to make sure that the rules are followed and that they are followed. The concept of the city was already set in stone when the Duke of Zhou formulated the Zhou Rites, and the city had to have nine gates. The Zhou rituals have influenced China for thousands of years, so both the city of Chang'an and the city of Beijing have nine gates.
? A four-sided 10,000 Buddha stone carving, not sure if it's from the Zhongshan Grottoes. The Xi'an City Museum's collection is unusual in that only a few of these stone carvings are glass sealed, the rest are just out of reach like this.
? This is a pair of gilt jade carved Guanyin, one of the few glass-sealed stone carvings.
? This walking gilt dragon and the Shaanxi Museum of small gold dragons in the same shape, but this one is much larger, the Shaanxi Museum of the pinky finger, this is larger than the palm of the hand.
Here is also a jade cup, just color deviation, the mouth of the cup gilt, a little more recent.
This is a bit interesting, I guess you can not guess, this is a part of the crossbow, equivalent to the current sniper rifle above the scope. The high raised is called lookout mountain, and the front of the small triangle together with the aim of targeting.
This gilt beast grape pattern copper mirror is very beautiful, this pattern in the Shaanxi Museum has seen, seen in Luoyang, here once to see, you can imagine, this pattern in ancient times must be the aristocratic circle of popular models.
? Bronze feather man, is the time of the Western Han Dynasty, in Luoyang has seen the Han Dynasty almost the feather man, I remember when I read the Classic of Mountains and Seas with Xiaojian, which seems to have mentioned a feathered country, spreading his arms into the wings can fly, was treated as a divine race. At that time, we were still analyzing whether it would be crossing the human, with its own driving device.
From the Small Wild Goose Pagoda out is almost five o'clock, stepped on a small yellow car went to the south gate Yongningmen. Just in time to catch the small soldiers change of guard, very interesting, at first I thought these are also the same as other tourist areas of the mass actors, and then realized that they seem to be military.
After the change of guard, there are only two soldiers standing guard, one on the left and one on the right under the gate, each soldier with a sword, some tourists to go and the soldier to take a picture, I was more interested in his sword, want to see, the results were rejected.
Originally planned to rent a bike on the wall to ride around, but the goose never thought that 12 years old or less can not rent a bike, small construction received 10,000 points of injury, no way, had to hike. The city wall at sunset is still very beautiful, but unfortunately there are clouds.
? Walked to the door with the light when there is a museum of the ruins of the ancient wall of Sui and Tang dynasties, it is also too hot, go down to cool off a little.
? Without bicycles quickly run out of energy, we decided to go down the wall at the closest place to Shujinqiao. Shujinqiao is said to be the Hui Min Street where the locals go.
? Pedal bike into the city, the narrower the walk, the darker the walk, at one point I think it is not the navigation wrong. Finally, the navigation said that this is Shijinqiao, but the ground is not any obvious signs, looks like a hutong, the car can not pass, there are no people, both sides of the store looks like a Hui people, accent and dress more like Qinghai or Xinjiang area.
? Maybe this is the real Hui Min Street, all the way to the jerk, and the price is quite affordable. We are in a jerking restaurant is jerking happy, suddenly came the sound of loud speakers Mass prayers, a closer look to realize that across the street is a mosque, which many people began to do prayers. After returning at night, I was curious to find out that the original mosque in Xi'an is particularly famous, the Hui people are going.
? The whole street is the most jerk, preserved beef meat buns, beef cake, mutton buns, Xinjiang dish these, in contrast to Xi'an's biang biang noodles these basically do not, selling spices a lot.
See a very special stall, really rare. In addition to a variety of rare bird eggs, there are rare bird feathers to sell, peacock feathers two bottles.
? Eat a few files on the full, sour plum soup three dollars a cup, really conscientious price. From the hutong walk to the end is the other end of the subway station, very convenient, shopping and eating almost nine o'clock, do the subway over the hotel, just good to sleep.
? Small Wild Goose Pagoda is really a recommended place, there is no Big Wild Goose Pagoda business brokers, no Terra Cotta Warriors hustle and bustle, no Shaan Bo crowded, only one with the ancient charm of the quiet, so that people linger, never forget.