Folklore: When traveling to Xi'an Hui Min Street, you should pay special attention to respecting the customs and taboos of the local minorities. Islamists do not eat pork.
Taxi: The blue taxi in Xi'an is for Chang'an district and cannot carry passengers in other districts of Xi'an. Green taxis are those in downtown Xi'an. Xi'an taxi burns natural gas, and refueling generally takes longer, so it is stipulated that the delivery time is from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Some taxi drivers are of poor quality, and will refuse to take passengers from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. So come to Xi'an to arrange a good time. Some taxi drivers are not as good as others and will refuse to take you between 3pm and 6pm. It is best to confirm the bus route in advance for traveling within the city.
Don't rent a taxi to visit attractions, there is a kickback agreement between cabs and attractions.
Shopping: don't buy the wild bee mice in Zhonglou Street, that thing is very heavy, a very small piece weighs up to a pound, eat the panache.
Safety: As in most cities, the area around the train station is a mixed bag, so don't stay long. Be careful with your packages, especially if you are a single, solo backpacking woman who is usually the focus of thieves.
Xi'an is a famous tourist city, but also a famous city of food and snacks, where you can enjoy the three Qin cuisine. In addition to the two banquets and two bubbles, meat buns, mutton buns, cold skin, buckwheat noodles, gourd head, barbecue meat, powder soup lamb blood and so on, are many people familiar with the local famous food.
The so-called "two banquets": the Xi'an Dining Hall's Shaanxi-style snack banquet and the dumpling banquets at the Delfa Chang Dumpling House and Jiefang Road Dumpling House.
The so-called "two bubbles": beef and mutton steamed buns and gourd head steamed buns. Beef and mutton steamed buns when the number of old Sun family restaurant, with Shengxiang restaurant, gourd head steamed buns when the number of spring occurrence of the hotel.
Recommended food and drink neighborhoods:
East Street along: the old Sun's restaurant western ethnic food court, East Street, Xi'an restaurant, the old Sun's restaurant, the old store, Wuyi restaurant, spring happened to restaurant Mule City, Xi'an Roast Duck restaurant, and the Zhonggu Lou Square, the Derfat Long Dumpling House, the same Shengxiang restaurant.
South Street is a boutique shopping, food and entertainment street: Yongning Palace Hotel, Bauhinia Nightclub, Prince Seafood Hotpot and other high-grade restaurants, as well as a number of fast-food restaurants, coffee bars, cafes and teahouses.
Beiyuanmen, Beiguangji Street, Dapiyuan, Qiaozikou, Damai City and other Hui Fang zone: a variety of halal Fang on the snacks, such as pickles, dunked buns, roasted lamb, sauce and marinade products, etc., under the night, shopping Hui neighborhood, tasting Fang on the delicious, a different kind of fun.
South Second Ring Road area: brand-name catering enterprises around the country, but also the Great Hong Kong Abalone and Shark's Fin Restaurant, Shunfeng Seafood, Little Shell, Bamboo Garden Village hot pot and so on.
Dongxin Street Night Market: a large-scale night market in Xi'an, with many stalls and a very rich variety of snacks, mainly Shaanxi flavor, as well as flavorful snacks from all over the country, which can satisfy a variety of different tastes.
Snack Plaza on the first floor of Qiulin Department Store: located at No. 58, North Section of Yanta Road, Li Jia Village, this place serves a variety of tasty noodles with sheep's blood, duck burritos, meat loaf, hot vegetables, pot helmets, cold noodles, mash, and other foods from the morning, at a low price.
In addition, there are many other civilian food neighborhoods such as the Nanyumen Night Market, the Park Forest Night Market, the Beixin Street Night Market, the Old Guanmiao Night Market, the Jiaotong University Second Village Night Market, and the Nanyanmen Night Market, which are also bustling during the daytime, though the night markets are even more red-hot.
Recommended stores in the city center:
Meat buns: 45 Zhuba City, next to the Alhambra Cinema, "Fanji Laji Meat Buns"; Park Forest south exit, southwest of Beilin, "Qin Yu meat buns".
Beef and mutton baozi: "Jia San Baozi" on Huimin Street.
Fried Rice: "Hong Hong Pickle Fried Rice" on Hui Min Street.
Eight Treasure Rice and Sour Plum Soup: All the restaurants on Hui Min Street have them, and they all taste good. The most recommended is "Xiao Jia Eight Treasures Congee" in Dapi Yuan, which specializes in these foods, and the store's eight treasures mash and pot stickers are also quite good.
Roasted meat: Huimin Street, each family has, are good. We recommend "Fangshang family barbecue" and "Haijia barbecue" opposite Jia San, and "Pingwa barbecue" is also good.
Small fried steamed buns: Dapiyuan's "Old Wujia Small Fried Buns", next door to "Xiaojia Eight Treasure Congee"; "Shaanxi First Bowl" in Xiyangshi; "Xiangzi Bowl" in the west of South Street Road, across from "Xiangzi Bowl"; "Xiangzi Bowl" in the west of South Street Road, across from "Xiangzi Bowl". Xiangzi Miaomen Xiaojiao," across the street from Xiangzi Miaomen.
Spicy soup: Dapiyuan's "Liu Family Spicy Soup" is a good place to go early, preferably early in the morning, but usually sells out and closes later in the morning.
Beef and mutton steamed buns: large hotels have "Tongshengxiang", "old Sun family"; but more recommended for locals often go to some small stores, such as: West Sheep City, "the old rice family steamed buns". The old Liu family steamed buns" in North Guangji Street, and so on.
Halal hot pot: "Jin family hot pot" in Hui Min Street, "Musa hot pot" in Dapi Yuan.
Beef and mutton dumplings: Wang's Dumpling House (Dumpling King) at the east exit of Dapiyuan.
Ordinary dumplings: De Fa Chang in Gulou Square and Jiefang Lu Dumpling House on Dongxin Street.
Beef Noodles: Hui Min Street's "One Point Lee Noodle House"; not far from the "One Point Lee Snack City" is the same store, which is divided into two stores specializing in noodle sales, and the two meals can be ordered from each other.
Hulutou Bun: "Chunfa" in the South Courtyard Gate.
Tips: If you are familiar with Xi'an, you may want to follow your friends around the streets and alleys that are familiar to the locals, as the best snacks in Xi'an are hidden in these unassuming places.
Attractions in Xi'an
City Attractions
The Bell and Drum Towers
The Bell and Drum Towers are Xi'an's landmarks, located in the center of the city, with the Bell and Drum Towers facing each other from east to west. Come to Xi'an must experience the "morning bells and drums", from the ring-shaped underground passage to the Bell Tower, hand-knocking on the northwest corner of the Ming Dynasty iron bells, in the melodious sound of the bells, look around, is directly across the West Street, a collection of ancient buildings, red tiles and flying roofs like the world of the immortals. In the bell tower to see the east, west, south, north and south streets, perhaps you will understand more about Xi'an. In the daytime, you can see the scenery from the Bell Tower, but at night, you have to look at the Bell Tower in the dark. The bell tower at night is solemn, gorgeous and mysterious under the reflection of various colors of lights. After enjoying the night view of the Bell Tower, it is best to go to the back of the Drum Tower to stroll around Huimin Street, which is Xi'an's most famous snack street, Jia San soup dumplings, red and red pickled fried rice, special small Zhencao, Pingwa barbecue ...... can't stop eating snacks.
Shuyuanmen
From the bell tower southbound, will reach the south gate when turning east is Shuyuanmen Ancient Culture Street. Look up at the tall pagoda at the entrance of the street with its ancient charm, and step into the wide and smooth green stone road, and you will enter a world of ancient colors and exotic curiosities. The whole street is made up of antique buildings, and there are all sorts of strange and weird things in every store, except for calligraphy and paintings, bronzes, jades, and a lot of folk specialties, such as shadow puppets, paper cuttings, and handmade weaving, etc. There are many stalls on the side of the road selling various kinds of artifacts, such as paper cuttings and handmade weaving. On the roadside, there are many stalls selling ocarinas, a dark instrument shaped like an egg with holes in its body. Haggle for 10 yuan, and the owner will patiently teach you to play a melodious tune for free -- and when you get home, you can brag to your friends and family that you've mastered a 3,000-year-old ancient instrument!
City Walls
Many of Xi'an's fantasies are derived from the city walls, and touching the ancient mottled bricks under the setting sun will take you to another time and place. On the outside of the city wall there is a ring of blue rippling moat, beyond the moat is the country's only "Ring Park". In the evening to take a walk in the park, you can fully feel the leisurely life of Xi'an citizens, and maybe even run into a few old Shaanxi singing Qin opera, a good ear full of it!
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda North Square
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is the most fashionable and most classic square in Xi'an. If you want to feel the most fashionable and classical Xi'an cultural life, you must come to the North Square of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Big Wild Goose Pagoda North Square is located in the side of the Ci'en Temple, is Asia's largest Tang culture square, it is the Big Wild Goose Pagoda for the center of the axis of the three equal parts, the center is the main scenic waterway, consisting of eight large step-up fountains, which can be presented in a huge stacked water landscape and matrix fountains. The main waterway is symmetrical on both sides of the green landscape design, in the haze of water to view the "Great Tang Dynasty" giant relief, that is also the illusion of the real atmosphere is like a dream. Come to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda North Square is best after dinner, walk and enjoy the scenery, listen to music and watch the fountain.
Datang Hibiscus Garden
Shenzhen has the "Window of the World", Hong Kong has the "Disneyland", then come to Xi'an must go to the park is what? Undoubtedly, the crowd recommended must be here. The Datang Hibiscus Garden is China's first royal garden-style cultural theme park that showcases all aspects of the Tang Dynasty, and it's worth a full day's visit. Wear comfortable shoes and bring your camera, from the "Spirit of Poetry" sculpture to the gallery of maids, the beauty and grace enjoyed by Yang Guifei, Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, is all around you. After listening to the ancient music, you can watch the "water screen movie" in the evening, which will take you back to the Tang Dynasty.
Bei Lin is a holy place for calligraphy lovers
If you love calligraphy, Bei Lin is a holy place for you to go back and forth. It is a treasure house of art with the earliest collection of ancient tablets and tombstones and the largest number of famous monuments in China, which was established in the second year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1078 A.D.) for the preservation of the Kaicheng Stone Scripture. Over the past nine hundred years, through successive generations of collection, expanding the collection, careful protection, the collection of nearly three thousand square tablets. In the exhibition room where famous tablets are gathered, the vastness of stone scriptures of saintly scholars and philosophers; the ancient and simple legacy of Qin and Han literati; the splendor of tombstones of Wei, Jin and Bei Dynasties; the superb calligraphy of famous artists of the Tang Dynasty as well as the dashing ink and writing of famous artists of the Song and Yuan Dynasties are on display.
Also want to learn more about history and culture? Visit the Shaanxi Provincial Museum of History to see the rich collection, or go to the Antique Street to find your favorite treasures, or go to the "nationally unique" Yanta Art Street to see the 108 sculptures, and you will always be pleasantly surprised by the deep cultural heritage of the city.
Xi'an: Click around
Spend two or three days in the city, and if you have time to spare, there are a few attractions around the city that you don't want to miss.
The Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum: as the eighth wonder of the world and a must-see for all dignitaries, I don't need to spend too much time introducing it. Recently, the Terracotta Warriors pit No. 1 has started the third excavation, the legendary "painted terracotta warriors", "warrior terracotta warriors", "green-faced terracotta warriors" will not appear? More mysterious surprises are waiting for you to explore. After visiting the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, you can also go to the nearby Mount Li, Huaqing Pond and other places to go around, as you like.
Famen Temple: The pagoda was built because of the relics, and the temple was built because of the pagoda, and it's well worth a visit as a Buddhist shrine. In May of this year, the 148-meter-high Heshi Pagoda of the Famen Temple, which houses the world's only Buddha's finger relic, was just completed. It's a great way to cleanse your mind and body.
Mount Huashan: Famous for its "steepness" and the legend of "Mount Huashan", Mount Huashan is also accessible by bus from the train station in about 2 hours. For a day trip you can take the cable car directly to the North Peak, but if you have some climbing experience and want to challenge yourself, it is recommended that you spend 4-7 hours (depending on your stamina) climbing from the foot of the mountain to the North Peak step by step, and then climb to the East Peak to watch the sunrise. Hikers may feel like they're in a martial arts novel as they walk through the lush, tree-covered trails.
Additionally, a visit to the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum to pay homage to his ancestors and a visit to the Guanzhong Folk Art Museum to see the rich collection will be a rewarding and memorable experience.