As the moon rises, the lights are blurred
Under the red wall, Tang Shi Street
The Hanfu beauty under the red cloak smiled smartly
An oil-paper umbrella
Inheriting the fragrance of thousands of years
The brightly lit Datang City that never sleeps (data map)
In the south of Xi'an, the colorful Datang Sleepless City is a must-have place for every foreign tourist to Xi'an to "check in". In 2024, the main stage of the Xi'an branch of the Spring Festival Gala will be built in Kaiyuan Square, Datang Sleepless City, through the Spring Festival Gala, the people of the whole country have felt the perfect integration of ancient and modern Datang Sleepless City.
The brightly lit Datang City that never sleeps (data map)
Stroll through the pedestrian block of Datang Sleepless City, imitating the Tang Dynasty building with eaves and arches, floors and stacked pavilions, the lights are bright after the lanterns are on, and the tourists are weaving. Fire trees and silver flowers, continuous poetry and lantern trees, paved into a poetic Chang'an Road, thousands of lights are brilliant, weaving into a colorful and dreamy night of the ancient capital.
As the main position of the "Xi'an Year", Datang Sleepless City has prepared a variety of theme activities: "Li Bai" takes "night" as the order to invite you to poetry; The sound of the sheng flute is "Music and Dance Chang'an" staged on the back of Tang Sancai's camel; the colorful sleeves are "Rotating Hu Xuan", the exotic customs of the Western Regions Dancing Queen, and the light and shadow are the multiple enjoyment of the senses.
In the city that never sleeps in the Tang Dynasty, the high-spirited "Li Bai" brings wonderful poetry interpretations to citizens and tourists. (Data map)
According to Zhao Meiru, a staff member of Datang Sleepless City, Datang Sleepless City started construction in 2002 with Tang Dynasty culture as the background and Tang style elements as the main line, and the first phase of the Sleepless City block was completed and opened on September 28, 2009. Since June 27, 2018, the block has been upgraded and renovated, the original roadway has been changed to a pedestrian path, and the layout of lighting, music performances, and commercial formats has been adjusted simultaneously, so as to improve the block environment, cultural characteristics, and smart tourism. After 77 days, it was transformed into a cultural tourism pedestrian street.
On December 25, 2018, it was officially opened to the public, forming an innovative commercial pedestrian street integrating time-honored brands, intangible cultural heritage displays, and fashion trends. After becoming the main position of the "Xi'an Year" series of activities, during the Spring Festival every year, it is full of tourists, and it has become a place where foreign tourists must "check in".
The Datang Sleepless City is brightly lit and full of tourists, and citizens and tourists feel the strong flavor of the New Year during their swimming.
Zhao Meiru also specially recommended the location of the main stage of the Xi'an branch of the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon - Kaiyuan Square, which is the core venue of the performance cluster of the Datang Nightless City block, with the largest and most core performance stage, at the beginning of the planning, it was built in accordance with the large-scale event venue, and the "Kaiyuan Shengshi" theme group sculpture creates a joyful atmosphere for the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and the LED bucket arch columns with four on each side of the double row have the meaning of welcoming visitors from all over the world.
As the main position of the "Xi'an New Year", the Chinese New Year Cultural Center in the block cannot be ignored. Located in the Qujiang Art Museum, the Chinese New Year Cultural Center leads visitors to trace the year, meet the year, experience the year and inherit the year according to the historical axis and development, tell the development and evolution of the New Year customs through pictures, videos and objects, and also tell the story about the "year".
Zhao Meiru said: "A thousand years of waiting, a thousand years of looking back, a thousand years of carrying forward the past and forging ahead into the future, here is more like a tribute from one prosperous era to another prosperous world." The story beads scattered in the history books are once again presented to the world through modern dance, live performances, on-site interactions and other forms. One step at a time, the kilometer-long street has a wonderful collision of tradition and fashion, and the ancient and modern complement each other. The New Year's flavor here is very full, welcome guests from all over the world to come to Xi'an for the New Year!"
Source: Xi'an Daily