|
|
 |
 |
 Park of Dacien Temple Relics of Tang Dynasty |
 |
Situated on Dacien Temple Relics of Tang Dynasty, the park was built based on Chunxiao Garden, which was completed and opened in 1980s. Covering an area of 52.9mu, the park has been artistically repositioned and reformed into Buddhism culture-oriented relics park with reference to traditional architectural styles of north China, royal garden and Buddhism temple. |
| Park of City Wall Relics of Tang Dynasty |
 |
With total length of 3.6km, width of 100m and an area of 540mu on outer relics of ancient city wall of Tang Dynasty, the park serves as an open artistic gallery featuring Tang Dynasty cultures, provides residents and tourists with poets and artistic poem conceptions as exhibition themes and adopts calligraphy, sculpture and gardening landscape as expression approaches, thus enabling them to enjoy artistic atmosphere, appreciate culture and relax themselves. |
| Qujiang Pool Relics Park |
 |
Covering an area of 1,500mu and restoring 700mu water system of Qujiang Pool of Han and Tang Dynasty, the park is renowned as the first grand landscape and garden type relics park integrating historical culture protection, ecological garden, landscape, amusement and tourism in northwest China and reproduces landscape and humanistic layouts of Qujiang District characterized by “overlapped green forest and matched verdant water. Designed by Ms. Zhang Jinqiu, a famous architect and member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, the park has re-created natural landscapes of Qujiang Pool through impressionistic style and built the unique landscape system featuring “overlapped green forest and verdant water” in virtue of mutual response of three sections and two zones. |
| Epang Palace |
 |
In ancient times, Xi’an Epang Palace served as huge palace of Qin Dynasty, whose relics are located in Epang Village 15km far from west suburb of Xi’an. The palace has been listed as national key cultural relics protection unit and regarded as the most famous palace cluster in Chinese history. It features large scale, majesty and pomp. In 1994, UNESCO has topped the cluster of Epang Palace relics in terms of architecture scale and conservation integrality based on onsite investigations. Besides, the palace is one of world wonders and reputed as the top palace in the world. |
| Shaanxi History Museum |
 |
Approximately covering an area of 70,000m2 and building area of over 50,000m2, Shaanxi History Museum is known as a national modern large-scale museum and a grand and spectacular building cluster of Tang styles. The museum aggregates cultural essentials of Shaanxi and exhibits evolution of Chinese civilization. Regarding status of Shaanxi in Chinese history, the State has invested RMB 144 million Yuan in total in the museum and opened it in June 1991. |
| Qinling Wildlife Park |
 |
As the first wildlife park in Northwest China, Qinling Wildlife Park has the national largest all-function forest of bird sounds and panther base. Area of vegetarian accessible for automobiles ranks top amongst nationwide wildlife parks. It presently fosters more than 300 animal species with total quantity of 10,000. The animal is comprised of beast, bird, amphibian and reptiles in terms of species, ensuring complete animal species. |
| Tang Paradise of Qujiang |
 |
Renowned as the largest culture theme park in Northwest China, Tang Paradise covers an area of 1,000mu, of which water surface is 300mu with total investment RMB 1.3 billion Yuan. Situated in the north of original Furong Garden of Tang Dynasty, Tang Paradise serves as the first grand royal garden style culture theme park in China to comprehensively exhibit prosperous Tang Dynasty and includes lots of scenic spots, such as Ziyun Mansion, Shinv Pavilion, Yuyan Palace, Fanglin Garden, Fengming Jiutian Theater, Xingyuan Garden, Lu Yu Teahouse, Tang-style Market, Qujiang Liuyin Garden and so on. |
| Huaqing Hot Spring |
 |
Huaqing Hot Spring is reputed as one of the largest royal gardens of Tang Dynasty in Chinese history and built on relics of Tang Huaqing Palace. It enjoys high reputation both at home and abroad with the history of six thousand years and is listed as national key scenic spot and historical site protection area. Moreover, it is also called Huaqing Palace and situated in the east of Xi’an and north of Lishan Mountain and 30km far from Xi’an, a historically and culturally famous city. Since ancient times, the hot spring has been serving as a famous scenic spot to tour and bath. As the first batch of area as above, the hot spring was listed as the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units by State Council in 1997. |
| Mt. Hua |
 |
Mt. Hua is situated in Huayin City, 120km in the east of Xi’an of Shaanxi Province and called Taihua Mountain in ancient times with altitude of 2,200m as national scenic spot. Amongst five great mountains, Mt. Hua is famous for its rugged features. The road to Mt. Hua is zigzag and 12km long. Filled with cliffs and precipices, the mountain only has one passageway since ancient times. Amongst five peaks of Mt. Hua, the east peak (Zhaoyang), the west peak (Lianhua) and the south peak (Luoyan) are higher than others. The east peak is the best place to see sunrise during wee hours. East and west sides of the west peak are lotus-shaped, thus boasting as the most rugged and beautiful peak of Mt. Hua. The south peak is the higher than any other peaks. |
| Qujiang Ocean World |
 |
Qujiang Ocean World is consisted of aquarium, ocean charm square and ocean business chamber, of which the aquarium is one of the most attractive components of Qujiang Ocean World and internally holds 6,000 tons of water in total to breed over 300 species of fresh and sea water organism with total quantity over 12,000. In detail, the aquarium is comprised of dolphin performance center, ocean science popularization center, rain forest center, undersea channel, underwater grand garden and auxiliary dining facility, ocean gift retailing, interactive amusements and other service facilities. It ranks amongst top five ocean worlds in China in terms of scale and exhibition level. |
| Famen Temple |
 |
Famen Temple is situated in Famen Town 10km in the north of Fufeng County Seat of Shaanxi Province and 110km far from Xi’an in the east and 90km far from Baoji in the west. Initially established during Hengling Period at the end of East Han Dynasty, Famen Temple has undergone a period over 1,700 years as ancestor of pagoda and temple in Guanzhong Plain. Pagoda was built for Buddha's relics. Famen Temple was built for the pagoda and originally named Asoka Temple. After Sakyamuni was dead, his relique was cremated into relics. In the 3rd century BC, Asoka has divided Buddha’s relics into 84,000 portions to popularize Buddhism after he unified India, making all ghosts and gods in Jambuvipa distribute the relics to the world and then build pagoda to oblate relics. There are 19 portions in China. Famen Temple has conserved the 5th portion. |
| Small Wild Goose Pagoda |
 |
As the national key cultural relics protection unit, Small Wild Goose Pagoda is situated inside Jianfu Temple in the south of the east section of West Youyi Road out of south gate of Xi’an and stands as a typical Buddhist pagoda with close eaves along Big Wild Goose Pagoda eastwards. For it is smaller than Big Wild Goose Pagoda, it is called Small Wild Goose Pagoda. Both of them are two important landmarks conserved from Chang’an, capital of ancient Tang Dynasty. “Morning Bell of Wild Goose Pagoda” is renowned as one of eight scenic spots of Guanzhong Plain in Qing Dynasty. Despite its smaller scale, the pagoda has fresh and quite environment, nice view and uniquely joys in this ancient city. |
| Big Wild Goose Pagoda |
 |
Big Wild Goose Pagoda is situated inside Cien Temple in the south suburb of Xi’an, Shaanxi Province and reputed as the famous national ancient architecture and symbol of ancient Xi’an. It was said that the pagoda was built for Buddhist scripture translation and conservation after Monk Xuanzang acquired Buddhist scriptures from India (ancient Hindoo) and returned ancient Xi’an. For it was built by referring to Indian wild goose pagoda, it was named wild goose pagoda and took a shape of square based on a foundation with line length of 45m and height of 5m. It has 7 floors. The bottom line is 25m long and the pagoda is 64m high in total. The pagoda body was built with bricks. Bricks were mutually furcated and jointed, thus ensuring firmness. Staircase is available in the pagoda to go upstairs circularly. Four sides of each floor four arch door opening to stare into space and overlook scenes of Chang’an. Four sides of the ground floor of the pagoda were configured with four stone doors, whose frames were sculpted with exquisite linear Buddha figures by Yan Liben, a famous painter of Tang Dynasty, as it was said. Two monuments of Introduction to the Sacred Teachings of Monk Tripitaka of the Great Tang Dynasty and Notes on the Introduction to the Sacred Teachings of Monk Tripitaka of the Great Tang Dynasty were written by Chu Suiliang, one of four famous calligraphers in early Tang Dynasty, and embedded into the brick shrine on both sides of the south entrance of the pagoda. |
| Ancient City Wall of Xi’an |
 |
The city wall is situated in the central area of Xi’an and takes a shape of rectangle with wall height of 12m, bottom width of 18m, roof width of 15m, east wall length of 2,590m, west wall length of 2,631.2m, south wall length of 3,441.6m, north wall length of 3,241m and total length of 11.9km. In addition, the city wall has four gates, viz. Changle Gate in the east, Anding Gate in the west, Yongning Gate in the south and Anyuan Gate in the north. Each gate was consisted of embrasure watchtower and gate tower. The well- conserved city wall at present was built from the 7th to 11th year of Hongwu Period of Ming Dynasty (1374 to 1378) and experienced over six centuries as the best conserved ancient city wall building so far in China. |
| The Emperor Qin's Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses |
 |
Renowned as one of eight wonders of the world, the Emperor Qin’s Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses were part of the Emperor Qin’s Mausoleum. Museum of Emperor Qin’s Terra-Cotta Warriors and Horses were built based on burial pit of Emperor Qin. These warriors and horses were located 3km far from the east gate of Emperor Qin’s Mausoleum and featured vivid shapes and unique expressions. Chariot soldiers, infantries and cavalries have ranked into various battle arrays against intrusions. In case of enemy’s attack, they were just like an ordered, serious, vast and mighty troop of Qin Dynasty to guard Emperor Qin’s underground kingdom. The entire museum is characterized by grand scale, magnificence and majesty. Therefore, it has been listed as one of “Eight Wonders of the World”. |
|
 |
| |
Copyright 2006 © Xi’an Qujiang International Conference and Exhibition (Group) Co., Ltd.ALL RIGHT RESERVED.
ADD: Xi’an Qujiang New COL：+86-29-62885719 62885725 FAX：+86-29-62885777 |
|
 |
|
