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What are the good scenic spots in downtown Xi 'an?

Xi An City Wall: Also known as Xi An Ming City Wall, it is the largest and best preserved ancient city wall in China. It is the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units and national AAAA-level tourist attractions. An city wall in a broad sense includes an Tang city wall and an Ming city wall, but generally refers to an Ming city wall in a narrow sense.

Xi Anming City Wall is located in the central area of Xi, Shaanxi Province, with a height of 12m, a top width of12-14m, a bottom width of15-18m and a perimeter of13.74km.. People in the city wall used to call it the ancient city area, with an area of 1 1.32 square kilometers. The famous Xi Bell and Drum Tower is located in the center of the ancient city.

Xi 'an City Wall has four main gates: Changle Gate (East Gate), Yongning Gate (South Gate), Anding Gate (West Gate) and Anyuan Gate (North Gate). These four doors are also the original doors of the ancient city wall. Since the Republic of China, in order to facilitate access to the ancient city, a number of new gates have been opened. Up to now, there are 18 gates in Xi 'an City Wall.

Huimin Street: It is a famous food and cultural block in Xi 'an, and it is the block with the most concentrated snacks in Xi 'an. The gate of the North Courtyard where Huimin Street is located is the official office area of the Qing Dynasty. Because Shaanxi governor's office is in the north of Gulou, it is named North Yard. 1In the late 1990s, some Hui people rented houses in this street to run restaurants, so Lianhu District was transformed into a restaurant street, and the North Yard Gate became a Huimin street.

Xi 'an Huimin Street, as one of the representatives of Xi 'an customs, is the collective name of many streets in Huimin block, which consists of several streets behind the Bell and Drum Tower, such as Beiguangji Street, Beiyuanmen, Xiyangcheng, Dapiyuan, Huajue Lane and Sajinqiao.

Big Wild Goose Pagoda: It is located in Jinchangfang, Chang 'an City (now southwest of Shaanxi Province) in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "Ci 'en Temple Pagoda". In the third year of Tang Yonghui (652), Xuanzang presided over the construction of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to preserve the scroll Buddha statues brought back to Chang 'an by Tianzhu via the Silk Road. The first five floors were built with nine floors, and then the floors and heights were changed several times. Finally, it was fixed as the seven-story pagoda seen today, with a total height of 64.5 17 meters and a base length of 25.5 meters.

The Wild Goose Pagoda, as the earliest and largest quadrangle-style brick pagoda in the Tang Dynasty, is a typical material evidence of the introduction of ancient Indian Buddhist temples into the Central Plains with Buddhism and its integration into China culture, and it is a landmark building that embodies the wisdom of working people in ancient China.

Little Wild Goose Pagoda: Located in Jianfu Temple in Anrenfang, Chang 'an City in Tang Dynasty (now the southern suburb of Xi City, Shaanxi Province), it is also called Jianfu Temple Pagoda. It was built between the Year of the Loong and Tang Dynasty. Together with the Wild Goose Pagoda, it is an important symbol preserved in Chang 'an City in Tang Dynasty. The Little Wild Goose Pagoda is a typical work of square brick pagodas with dense eaves in early China. There are 15 floors and 13 floors, with a height of 43.4 meters. A beautiful tower is a landmark building where Buddhism was introduced into the Central Plains and merged into Chinese culture.

The ancient bell in the bell tower of Little Wild Goose Pagoda and Jianfu Temple is called "Wild Goose Pagoda Morning Bell", which is one of the eight scenic spots in Guanzhong. It is a part of Xi Museum and a national AAAA tourist attraction.

Datang Furong Garden: Located in Qujiang Development Zone, south of Xi City, Shaanxi Province, southeast of Big Wild Goose Pagoda, modeled after the royal garden of Tang Dynasty, it was rebuilt in the north of the original Furong Garden site. It is the first large-scale royal garden-style cultural theme park in China that fully displays the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, covering an area of 1000 mu, including 300 mu of water.

There are many antique buildings in the park, such as Ziyun Building, Palace of Maids, Forbidden City, Xingyuan Garden, Fanglinyuan, Jiutian Theater and Tang Cheng. It is the largest imitation of the Tang Dynasty royal complex in China, and Zhang Jinqiu, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, is responsible for the overall planning and architectural design.

Shaanxi History Museum: Located in the northwest of xi 'an Dayan Pagoda, it was founded in 1983 and opened on June 20th, 199 1, marking a new development milestone of China Museum. The building is a Tang-style building complex of "Four Corners Building in nave", which is orderly in primary and secondary, strewn at random in high and low, vigorous and solemn in momentum, and integrates national traditions, local characteristics and the spirit of the times.

Gaojia Courtyard: It is one of the most well-preserved Han residential courtyards, and has been approved as a provincial and municipal cultural relics protection unit. This exquisite architectural design is unique, including aesthetics, folklore, architecture, history and other Han cultural connotations. There is more than one Gaos Courtyard in China, which refers to the former residence of historical figures or celebrities. There are two Gao Family Courtyards in An: Gao's former residence is located at North Yard Gate 144, and Gao Family Courtyard at No.42 Xinglong Lane is Gao Peizhi's former residence. There is also a Gaos Family Courtyard at No.362, Gulou North Street, Zhuozhou City. The owner is tall.

Beilin Museum: It is the earliest museum established in Shaanxi. It mainly collects, displays and studies inscriptions, epitaphs and stone carvings of past dynasties, making it a unique art museum in China. The collection of cultural relics 1 1000, including 9 national treasures 134 first-class cultural relics1000. Four of the famous "Six Horses in Zhaoling" are hidden in this museum. The exhibition consists of cultural relics exhibitions such as forest of steles and stone carving art, with 12 exhibition room. At present, there are 7 tablet rooms, 8 tablet corridors and 8 tablet pavilions, plus stone carving art rooms and 4 cultural relics exhibitions, with an exhibition area of 4,900 square meters.

1.Xi 'an, formerly known as Chang 'an and Haojing, is now the capital of Shaanxi Province, a sub-provincial city and a national regional central city (northwest). It is an important central city in western China approved by the State Council and an important scientific research, education and industrial base of the country. Xi is one of the four ancient capitals in China, a "world historical city" determined by UNESCO 198 1, and one of the top ten ancient capitals in the world selected by American media.

2.Xi 'an is located in the middle of Guanzhong Plain, with Weihe River in the north, Qinling Mountain in the south and Bashui Chang 'an in the south. The whole city governs 1 1 district 2 counties, with a total area of 10 108 square kilometers. At the end of 20 15, the resident population was 8,705,600, including 6,356,800 urban residents, and the urbanization rate was 72,438+0%.

Chang 'an has been the imperial capital since ancient times. Xi 'an has a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, a history of building a city of 3 100 years and a history of building a capital of 165438 years. It is one of the four ancient capitals in China, one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization and the Chinese nation, and the starting point of the Silk Road. Fenghao Capital, Qin Xianyang Palace, Terracotta Warriors, Han Weiyang Palace, Changle Palace, Sui Daxing City, Tang Daming Palace, Xingqing Palace, etc. Outline the "Chang' an Complex". ?

4.Xi is the best tourist destination in China, one of the civilized cities in China, and an important science and education center in China. It has seven 985 or 21engineering universities, including Xi Jiaotong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and xidian university.

5. At present, six heritages in Xi 'an are listed in the World Heritage List, namely the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang and Terracotta Warriors, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the Little Wild Goose Pagoda, the Daming Palace Site in Chang 'an in Tang Dynasty, the Weiyang Palace Site in Chang 'an in Han Dynasty and the Xingjiao Temple Tower.