What should you pay attention to when going to Huaqing Palace?

In order to have a better playing experience and respect local customs and habits, you need to pay attention when visiting Huaqing Palace:

1. "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" is performed in the Jiulong Lake Scenic Area inside Huaqing Palace. .

2. Holders of "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" performance tickets can only enter the Jiulong Lake performance area and cannot visit the scenic spot.

3. Nowadays, tourists can only visit scenic spots within the scenic area. If they want to take a hot spring bath here, they must stay at a hot spring hotel in the scenic area;

4. To the east of Xi'an Railway Station In the square, there are many fake You5 special lines. According to some users’ reports, there are also fake on-site administrators, etc., making it almost difficult to distinguish the real ones from the fake ones.

Address: No. 38, Huaqing Road, Lishan North, Lintong District, Xi'an City.

Transportation: Bus: From the east square of the train station, take 914 or 915 to Lishan Cableway Station, Lintong No. 101 to Lintong Museum, and You 5 to Huaqingchi Station. In the city, take bus No. 5 (306) or No. 307 and get off at the "Huaqingchi" station and walk there. Self-driving If you are driving from Xi'an to Huaqing Hot Spring, you can go along the Xilin Expressway and it only takes 30 minutes to reach Huaqing Hot Spring.

Tel: 029-83812003.

Introduction:

The Huaqing Palace (Huaqing Pool Lishan) scenic spot is located 30 kilometers east of Xi'an, adjacent to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses. It is well-known at home and abroad for its eternal hot spring resources and numerous historical events, and has become a landmark scenic spot for cultural tourism in the Tang Dynasty in China.

Huaqing Palace has a long history. Emperors of the Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties built separate palaces here. In the palace, there are the Tang Yutang Site Museum and the former site of the Xi'an Incident - Wujian Hall. , Jiulong Lake and Furong Lake Scenic Area, Tang Liyuan Ruins Museum and other cultural areas, as well as landmark building complexes such as Feishuang Hall, Wanshou Hall, Changsheng Hall, Huanyuan and Yuwang Hall.

Because Lishan Hot Spring was developed and utilized early and has been favored by emperors of all ages, it enjoys the reputation of "the best imperial spring in the world".

As early as 6,000 years ago during the Yangshao Culture period, the ancestors of Jiangzhai began to use Lishan Hot Spring. The long-standing Lishan Hot Spring embodies rich cultural connotations and is an indispensable and important part of the history and culture of the Chinese nation.

This hot spring ode in the scenic area is 154 cm high, 72 cm wide and 19 cm thick. It has a dragon head and a trapezoidal base. It is a seal inscription by Yuan Chang, the governor of Yongzhou in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The inscription reads: "Hot springs are the natural prescription, the original medicine of heaven and earth. The people of Qiancheng and all countries, and the guests who are sick and resting on hot springs, all come to the guests without lodging food and healing their sufferings in the water." This stele is The earliest existing written material of Huaqing Palace.

This is the location of the bathhouse where Concubine Yang takes a bath in "Song of Everlasting Sorrow". After the Anshi Rebellion, not much of the original building remained. In 1982, when the Lintong County People's Government was building the "Guifei Pavilion", they accidentally discovered the ruins of a bathhouse in the Tang Dynasty. After excavation and sorting, the Tang Dynasty Huaqing Palace Yutang Site Museum was built. This soup pool is small and exquisite, with a unique design. It is 3.6 meters long from east to west and 2.9 meters wide from north to south. It is approximately elliptical in shape. The pool wall is entirely made of bluestone, and the upper and lower two-story table-type structure of the soup pool is made of 18 groups of rolled stones. There is a long stone in the pool specially designed for Concubine Yang to bathe, with the character "Yang" engraved on it. There is a water inlet with a diameter of 10 cm in the middle of the bottom of the pool. A white marble lotus base was unearthed here. The lotus base is connected to a nozzle, and a ceramic water pipe is connected to the main water source. The hot spring water is sprayed out from the lotus nozzle through the pipe due to natural pressure. The water mist that falls down is also Just like today's shower. Next to the imperial concubine pool is the imperial soup dedicated to Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, a Nine Dragon Hall was built on the pool. Outside the hall, there were nine dragons carved from white jade with water fountains at their mouths. The surface of this soup is in the shape of a realistic lotus, so it is also called "Lotus Soup".

The five halls of Huaqing Palace are where the Xi'an Incident took place. To this day, the glass windows and walls of the five halls still retain bullet marks from the fierce battles. The tables, chairs, beds, sofas, tea sets, stoves, carpets, telephones, etc. used in the offices of each room are copied and placed according to their original appearance.

The five halls from west to east are: secretary's room, Chiang Kai-shek's bedroom, Chiang Kai-shek's office, the conference room for deploying the offensive Red Army, and the office of Qian Dajun, the director of the attendant's office. On the morning of December 12, a military revolt broke out. Chiang's bodyguards rushed out and used the buildings in the courtyard to resist with all their strength. To this day, there are still many bullet marks on the walls and glass of the three halls.

In 779 BC, King You of Zhou won the praise of a beautiful woman, but the beauty never smiled all day long. To this end, King You discussed a clever plan with the treacherous minister Guo Shifu and lit the smoke from the Lishan beacon tower. The princes in the world watched the beacon fire and quickly led their troops and horses to rescue him. However, King You told the princes: "I raised the beacon fire just to make the empress smile." So Bao Si laughed. The princes from all walks of life came with courage and returned with resentment. The Quanrong Kingdom saw that King You was stupid and ignorant, and his people were betrayed, so he took the opportunity to lead his troops to attack. As the troops approached the foot of the mountain, King You of Zhou hurriedly raised beacon fire to mobilize his troops, but none of the princes came to rescue him. King You and Bao Si fled to the foot of Mount Li and were killed by Quan Rong. The historical allusions of "a smile is worth a thousand pieces of gold", "a smile can destroy the world", and "a beacon fire plays on the princes" are left behind.

This beacon tower is the beacon tower towering on the first peak of Xixiuling in Lishan Mountain at an altitude of 913.6 meters.

During the Jiayou period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Lishan Hot Spring was painstakingly restored by Liu Ziyong and others. It is so beautiful that tourists from all over the world flocked to it, chanted poems, and expressed their nostalgia for the past. Among these countless poems and poems, masterpieces such as "The Lady of Guo Guo's Night Journey" and "Lishan" by Su Shi, a budding literary giant who traveled to Lishan, stand out.

The Xi'an Incident, also known as the "Double Twelve Incident". On December 12, 1936, in order to persuade Chiang Kai-shek to stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan. Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng launched a mutiny in Huaqingchi and detained Chiang Kai-shek, then chairman of the Military Commission of the National Government and commander-in-chief of the Northwest Bandit Suppression. Later, Chiang Kai-shek accepted the idea of ??"stopping the civil war and uniting to resist Japan", the second Kuomintang cooperation was realized, and a comprehensive anti-war situation was formed, which laid a solid foundation for the Chinese nation's victory in the anti-Japanese war.

You can watch large-scale dance dramas in the scenic area.

The scenic spot launched a large-scale real-life historical dance drama "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" in 2007, and in 2012 launched a multimedia video drama "Xuanjing Palace of Eternal Life". Among them, "Song of Everlasting Regret" is only performed from April to October, and the ticket price for ordinary seats is between 200 and 300 yuan depending on the region.

There is also the "1212 Xi'an Incident" adapted from historical events, which truly and vividly shows the little-known historical appearance of the "Xi'an Incident".

If you want to try hot springs here, you can stay at the hotel in Huaqing Palace, which provides natural Lishan Hot Spring for guests to enjoy.