A city or a country area, there must be one thing that will make people hard to forget, China's Great Wall of China, France's Paris Tower, Denmark's mermaids, the U.S. White House, Japan's cherry blossoms and so on, these are the symbols of these countries.
Well, a city is also so, Inner Mongolia's prairie, Wuhan's Yellow Crane Tower, Hunan's Yueyang Tower, Beijing's Forbidden City, Hangzhou's West Lake and so on, each city has its own iconic landscape, used to let people here unforgettable.
So, next, I will give you a good introduction to the city of Xi'an, some of the landmarks!
Xi'an City Wall
Xi'an City Wall, also known as the Xi'an Ming City Wall, is the largest and best-preserved ancient city wall in China.
Xi'an City Wall was built on the basis of the Tang Imperial City, the existing wall was built in the seventh to eleventh years of the Ming Hongwu (1374-1378), so far more than 600 years of history, is the first batch of the national key cultural relics protection units, the national 4A level tourist attractions.
The wall is 12 meters high, 12-14 meters wide at the top and 15-18 meters wide at the bottom, with a closed rectangular outline and a circumference of 13.74 kilometers. "Stroll through the old city of bravado, thousands of stories to stimulate the chest." Standing on the Xi'an city wall as if you can still see the former prosperity of Chang'an City.
Xi'an Bell Tower
Xi'an Bell Tower is a landmark building in Xi'an, which is the largest and best-preserved bell tower in China.
Xi'an Bell Tower was built in the 17th year of the Ming Dynasty (1384), and its original location is at the entrance of Guangji Street on the West Main Street, opposite to the Drum Tower. In the old days, a big bell was hung on the upper floor for alarming the time, so it was called "Bell Tower". Now the Xi'an Bell Tower is located in the center of Xi'an, the Ming City Wall in the east, west, south, north and south of the intersection of the four streets.
The bell tower is built on a square base, a brick and wood structure, three eaves, four corners of the roof of the form, a total height of 36 meters, the base is 8.6 meters high, each side is 35.5 meters long, an area of about 1,377.4 square meters, there are staircases can be circling up.
Covered with dark green glazed tiles on the eaves, the building is plastered with gold and colorful paintings, painted buildings and beams, and topped with a gilded treasure dome, which is splendid.
The bell hanging in the northwest corner of the bell tower no longer has the function of chiming, but it is still rung on New Year's holidays to pray for peace.
Xi'an Drum Tower
Xi'an Drum Tower is the landmark of Xi'an, and one of the largest and best-preserved drum towers in ancient China.
The Xi'an Drum Tower is located in the center of the ancient capital of Xi'an, about 200 meters northwest of the Xi'an Bell Tower at the intersection of the four main streets of east, west, south, north and south within the Ming City Wall. It is among the top buildings of its kind in terms of historical value, artistic value and science.
The Drum Tower was built on a square base, a brick and wood structure, with a heavy eaves at the top, a total height of 36 meters, covering an area of 1,377 square meters, with a staircase circling up.
In the third eave of the Drum Tower, the north and south each hanging a plaque, the south for the "Wen Wu Sheng Di", the north plaque for the "sound in the sky". "Wen Wu Sheng Di" was initially rebuilt after the completion of the Drum Tower, Shaanxi Governor Zhao Kewai in the Ming Wanli eighteen years (1580) by the title.
Daminggong Ruins Park
Daminggong National Ruins Park is a key project of China's "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" for the protection of large sites, and is an important part of the world cultural heritage declared by the countries along the Silk Road. It is an important part of the cultural heritage of the countries along the Silk Road.
Daming Palace is one of the four major sites of the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, and is the most representative palace site of the Tang Dynasty. Daming Palace National Heritage Park is located in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, Taihua South Road, Daming Palace is located in the northern part of Chang'an City, Longshouyuan, was built in the eighth year of the Tang Emperor Zhenguan, the plane is slightly trapezoidal.
The Daming Palace was the most magnificent and magnificent palace complex of the Tang Empire and the largest palace complex in the world at that time, and was the national symbol of the Tang Dynasty.The Daming Palace was first built in the eighth year of Tang Emperor Taizong Zhenguan and destroyed at the end of the Tang Dynasty, covering an area of 3.2 square kilometers.
Datang Hibiscus Garden
Datang Hibiscus Garden is China's first large-scale royal garden-style cultural theme park that displays the full range of the Tang Dynasty. on January 17, 2011, it was rated as a national 5A-level tourist attraction.
Datang Hibiscus Garden is located in Qujiang New District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, covering an area of 1,000 acres, including 300 acres of water, is the largest cultural theme park in Northwest China, and is built north of the original Tang Dynasty Hibiscus Garden site.
Inside the park, there are Ziyun Building, Ladies Hall, Imperial Banquet Palace, Apricot Garden, Fanglin Garden, Fengming Jutian Theater, Tang City and many other imitation ancient buildings, which is the largest imitation of the Tang Dynasty Royal Architecture Complex in China.
Xi'an Big Wild Goose Pagoda
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda, also known as "Ci'en Temple Pagoda", is regarded as the symbol of the ancient capital of Xi'an and Shaanxi Province. It was built by Venerable Xuanzang in the third year of the Tang Dynasty to preserve the scriptures and statues that were brought back to Chang'an via the Silk Road from Tianzhu.
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda, as the earliest and largest surviving four-square pavilion-style brick tower of the Tang Dynasty.
It is the pagoda this ancient India Buddhist temple building form with Buddhism into the Central Plains, and into the Chinese culture of the typical evidence, is the integration of the ancient Chinese working people's wisdom crystallization of the landmark building.
Silk Road Sculptures
Xi'an was historically the starting point of the Silk Road, and the Silk Road Sculptures, which took three years to complete, have become the landmark sculptures of the ancient city of Xi'an.
The Silk Road Group Sculpture was commissioned in 1984 by Prof. Ma Changdu, then head of the sculpture department of the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, to commemorate the 2,100th anniversary of the Silk Road in 1987.
The sculpture depicts a group of camel caravans trekking along the Silk Road, including Tangs and Persians with high noses and deep eyes, with two horses and three dogs among the 14 camels.
Xi'an Urban Sports Park
Xi'an Urban Sports Park is located in the center of Xi'an's Beicheng Economic Development Zone, occupying an area of about 800 acres (including the main and secondary sports stadiums), and is Asia's premier theme park.
Xi'an City Sports Park is an ecological sports theme park with ball games as its main focus and leisure and recreation functions, and is the only green, open and free sports theme park in Northwest China.
Xi'an Television Tower
Xi'an Television Tower, also known as Shaanxi Radio and Television Tower, is a comprehensive tower integrating radio and television broadcasting and tourism.
The TV Tower is located in Xi'an Bell Tower, South Gate axis at the southern end of the southern end of Chang'an South Road, and the big and small Wild Goose Pagoda triangle, the entire tower is octagonal, the tower looks like a palace lantern. Is the country's only one multi-pronged TV tower, but also the earliest built in the country's concrete TV transmission tower.
The TV tower was built in 1987, the tower height of 245 meters, the overall plane into an octagonal shape, by the tower base, tower, tower, tower, tower mast five parts, the tower for the reinforced concrete structure, tower, tower mast for the steel structure. In August 2011, it was remodeled as a whole.
Xi'an Railway Station
Xi'an Railway Station is one of the landmark buildings in Xi'an.
Xi'an Railway Station is one of only three stations in the country (the other two being Zhengzhou Station and Wuchang Station) that can provide direct access to the provincial capitals and important prefectural-level cities of every provincial administrative region in mainland China.