Xi'an, referred to as "pickaxe", ancient name Chang'an, Hojing, is the core city of Shaanxi Province's prefecture-level cities, provincial capitals, sub-provincial cities, megacities, Guanzhong Plain urban agglomeration core cities, the State Council approved and determined the important central city of western China, the national important scientific research, education and industrial base. The total area is 10,108 square kilometers. The city administers 11 districts and 2 counties, with a built-up area of 700.69 square kilometers. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Xi'an city is 12952907 people.
Xi'an is located in the middle of the Guanzhong Plain, north of the Wei River, south of the Qinling Mountains, Eight Water Run Chang'an, is the UNESCO in 1981 identified as the "World Historical City", is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization and the Chinese nation, the starting point of the Silk Road, history has more than ten dynasties built the capital here, Fenghao Capital City, Qin Afang Palace, Terracotta Warriors, Han Weiyang Palace, Changle Palace, Sui Daxing City, Tang Daming Palace, Xingqing Palace and so on outlined the "Chang'an complex".
Xi'an is one of the best tourist destinations in China and one of the best cities in China's international image, with two six heritage sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, namely: the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin and the Terracotta Warriors, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the Little Wild Goose Pagoda, the Ruins of Daming Palace in Tang Chang'an City, the Ruins of Weiyang Palace in Han Chang'an City, and the Xingjiao Temple Pagoda. There are also Xi'an City Wall, Bell and Drum Tower, Huaqing Pond, Zhongnan Mountain, Tang Furong Garden, Shaanxi History Museum, Forest of Steles and other attractions. Xi'an has 7 "double-first-class" construction universities such as Xi'an Jiaotong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, and Xidian University.
In February 2018, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued the Guanzhong Plain Urban Agglomeration Development Plan to support Xi'an to build a national central city, an international comprehensive transportation hub, and an international metropolis with historical and cultural characteristics. In 2020, the GDP of Xi'an City will be 1,002.039 billion yuan.
Xi'an is located in the center of China's land map and the junction of the two major economic regions in central and western China, and is the only way from the northwest to the central plains, north China and east China. In terms of the national regional economic layout, Xi'an, as the largest western central city in the economic belt along the Chinese section of the New Eurasian Land Bridge - Longhai Lanxin Railway, is the bridgehead for the state to implement the strategy of large-scale development of the western region, has an important strategic position of connecting the east and the west, connecting the north and the south, and is one of the largest node cities in the national trunk highway network.
Xi'an is one of the first batch of outstanding tourist cities in China, cultural relics have the characteristics of large resource density, good preservation and high level, among the 155 basic types of China's tourism resources census, Xi'an tourism resources account for 89. There are 72 imperial tombs around Xi'an, including the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the "Emperor of the Ages", the ruins of the four major capitals of Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang, the 11 tombs of the Western Han Emperors and the 18 tombs of the Tang Dynasty Emperors, and more than 700 ancient buildings such as large and small goose pagodas, bell and drum towers, and ancient city walls.
Eight Views of Guanzhong (Eight Views of Chang'an)
Huayue cactus
Jade shavings of gold stems bear the dew plate, Emperor Wu once went to the old Chang'an. How to ask for immortal tips, the smoke under the eyes pointed upwards.
Evening illumination of Lishan Mountain
The Ghost King left the old desolate platform, and the cypress and pine were embroidered in piles. In the twilight of the blue glow, it is still suspected that the beacon fire is coming from the west.
Snow and wind in the willows
The ancient bridge stone road is half-inclined, and the willow-colored qingqing is nearly sweeping the eyebrows. Shallow horizontal sand deep guest hate, light flying desire poems.
Meandering river stream drink
Sitting on the opposite wave drunk and waking up, the apricot blossom spring feast passed through the Orchid Pavilion. How to say san'in things, demeanor once counted nine years old.
Wild Goose Pagoda Morning Bell
At the beginning of the dawn, the frost came, and the falling moon was late in the wilderness. A residual dream on the pillow woke up, and the thousand autumn victories were always in the sky.
Xianyang Gudu
The long sky is full of flowers, like snow reeds carrying boats. Where the people on the river go, the smoke wave is also the old Han Dynasty autumn.
Grass hall smoke
The smoke was thick and thick, and the grass hall dragon elephant was not distinguished. The bells sounded in the clouds, and the crane people came to greet the jade girl.
Too white snow
The jade mountain head is cold, and the pine wind flutters on the clouds. Deep where the monks lie in the clouds, may cloak this place cold.
Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum of Qin Shi Huang: World Cultural Heritage, National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit, National AAAAA-level Tourist Scenic Spot, National First-class Museum. Known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World", the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum is one of the most important archaeological discoveries of our time.
Big Wild Goose Pagoda: World Cultural Heritage, National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit, National AAAAA Level Tourist Attraction. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is regarded as the symbol of the ancient capital of Xi'an. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda was built in the 8th century to preserve the scroll Buddha statue that Master Xuanzang brought back to Chang'an via the Silk Road via Tianzhu via the Silk Road.
Little Wild Goose Pagoda: World Cultural Heritage, National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit, National AAAA-level Tourist Attraction. The Small Wild Goose Pagoda was built during the Jinglong period of the Tang Dynasty. The tower originally had 15 floors, but there are 13 floors in existence, and the height is 43.4 meters.
Xingjiao Temple Pagoda: World Cultural Heritage, National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit. Xingjiao Temple Pagoda is located in The Xingjiao Temple in Shaolingyuan, Chang'an District, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. The tomb tower of the Chinese Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang.
Daming Palace: World Cultural Heritage, National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit, National AAAAA-level Tourist Attraction. Daming Palace is an outstanding representative of the architectural art of the Oriental Palace, and is known as the Oriental Temple of the Silk Road.
Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin: World Cultural Heritage, National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit, National AAAA-level Tourist Attraction. The Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin was the first large-scale and well-designed imperial mausoleum in Chinese history.
Huaqing Pond: National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit, National AAAAA-level Tourist Attraction, National Key Scenic Spot. Huaqing Pond, also known as Huaqing Palace, is surrounded by Lishan Mountain in the south and Weishui in the north, and is an ancient Chinese palace known for its hot spring pond.
Datang Furong Garden: National AAAAA-level tourist attraction. Datang Furong Garden is the first Tang cultural theme park, with the world's largest water curtain movie, and the longest Tang cultural corridor in China.
Shaanxi History Museum: National AAAA-level tourist attraction, national first-class museum. The Shaanxi History Museum is a comprehensive historical museum and the first large-scale national museum in China with modern facilities.
Xi'an City Wall: National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit, National AAAAA-level Tourist Attraction. The total circumference is 13.74 km. There are four main city gates: East Changle Gate, Xi'an Dingmen, South Yongning Gate, and Bei'an Yuanmen.
Xi'an Forest of Stone Steles Museum: National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit, National AAAAA-level Tourist Attraction, National First-class Museum. The Forest of Steles Museum is the earliest museum created in Shaanxi, which mainly collects, displays and studies the inscriptions, epitaphs and stone carvings of the past dynasties, and has become a unique art museum in China.
Xi'an Forest of Stone Steles Museum
Lishan
Cuihua Mountain
Qujiang Ocean World
Qinling Wildlife Park
Qinling Wildlife Park Swan Lake
Guanzhong Folk Art Museum
Banpo Museum
Xi'an Expo Park
Datang West City
Seoul Lake
Floor observation deck
Taiping National Forest Park
Heihe National Forest Park
Drum Tower
Qinglong Temple
Zhaohui Pagoda
Xingqing Park
Qujiangchi Ruins Park
Xi'an Chanba National Wetland Park
Big Wild Goose Pagoda North Square
Ring Park
Tang Da Ci'en Temple Ruins Park
Daxingshan Temple
Shaanxi Natural History Museum
Great Mosque of Halal
Guangren Temple
Revolution Park
Lianhu Park
Biángbiang noodles are traditional noodles from Guanzhong, Shaanxi, specifically referring to flour milled from Guanzhong wheat, usually hand-pulled into long and thick noodles.
Dumpling Feast is a famous snack banquet in Xi'an, which was successfully developed on the basis of excavating and studying Tang Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Dumplings. Xi'an Dumpling Feast got its name mainly because this kind of banquet is composed of a variety of dumplings.
Qinzhen Liangpi has a history of more than 2,000 years, and the local legend of Qinzhen has begun to have Liangpi during the Qin Shi Huang period to provide offerings for the imperial dynasty. Made of rice flour as raw material, because the main production in Qinzhen, Huxian County, also known as Qinzhen rice peel, when making rice flour into a paste, laid flat in a multi-layer bamboo cage, Wang wei steamed, made of cool leather bands, thin, fine, soft, with a unique flavor.
Beef and mutton steamed bun is a famous snack in Xi'an City, which uses high-quality beef and mutton, add condiments into the pot to cook rotten, soup sauce spare, and then the good "tiger back chrysanthemum heart" - tuotuo steamed bun, broken into pieces, add auxiliary ingredients to cook, its characteristics are: meat rotten soup thick, mellow and delicious, sticky and smooth.
Lao TongJia's lamb is a famous snack in Xi'an, and it is said that in 1900, when the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an with the Guangxu Emperor, tasted it and praised it. And by the bingbu Shangshu Zhao Fuqiao's master Xing Tingwei handwritten "Zhi Slope" three words, made a plaque hanging at the door, since then the old boy's family lamb is famous, nearly a hundred years of prosperity.
Pot helmet is a traditional flavor pasta snack that is popular among urban and rural residents in Guanzhong, Shaanxi, which originated from the gifts given by her grandmother to her grandson He Miyue, and later developed into a flavored convenience food.
The famous snack of meat sandwich steamed bun in Shaanxi and even most of the northwest, which originated in the Warring States, was called "cold meat" at that time, and in Xi'an, Lao Fan's family almost became synonymous with bacon meat. Fan Ji Bacon Was Created in 1925 by Fan Fengxiang's father and son, and has a history of more than 70 years. In 1989, it participated in the "Golden Tripod Award" selection activity of the Ministry of Commerce and was rated as the best product of the ministry.
Bacon is a kind of sauce meat made in a pot, but it is crisper than the usual sauce meat and has a fresh taste. Due to the fine selection of ingredients, comprehensive seasoning, fire work to the home, coupled with the use of aged soup, so the production of bacon meat is different, has obvious characteristics, people praise it is: "fat meat eats not greasy, lean meat can not be full of mouth oil." Do not bite the flesh with teeth to rot itself, and the aftertaste will not disperse for a long time after eating. ”
Hulutou is a unique flavor snack in Xi'an, which has similarities with lamb steamed buns, that is, the same buns, but the main ingredient is not lamb, but pig intestines. Its main ingredients are made of pig intestine head, pig belly head, fat intestines to remove the fishy stomach, add seasonings to cook into a soup, and then use the soup to cook steamed buns.
Koshiki cake is a traditional Han cake in the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province. Using glutinous rice and red dates as raw materials, they are stacked on top of each other and laid in three or four layers. Steam over large and low heat. Bright color, red and white, sticky and sweet. A sweet cake made from glutinous rice and dates.
The appearance of the stone bun is bright and bright, the concave edge is protruding, like an oval small golden basin, the layers are clear after biting, the outside is crisp and the inside is soft, salty and delicious, and it is durable and durable. This kind of bun is made of fine white flour, oil and salt (sugar), and some also add flowers and pepper leaves, making a bun blank and baking. It has the characteristics of crispy and salty, rich in nutrition, easy to digest, easy to carry, and durable.