Big Buddha Temple
National key cultural relics protection unit. Located next to Xilan Road, ten kilometers west of Binxian County, the temple caves were first excavated in the Northern Dynasties and large-scale in the early Tang Dynasty. They were basically completed in the second year of Zhenguan (628). They were built by Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty to commemorate the Binzhou Qianshuiyuan Battle and the Battle of Binzhou Qianshuiyuan under his command. It was built after the soldiers who died in the Goryusaka War and was named Yingfuji Temple. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was renamed Qingshou Temple. Since the Ming Dynasty, it has been commonly known as the Great Buddha Temple, named after the tall and exquisite statue of Amitabha.
The Great Buddha Temple rises from the mountain and is carved with stone images. It has more than 130 grottoes, scattered and scattered on the three-dimensional cliff face about 400 meters long. There are 446 Buddhist niches and more than 1,980 statues in the cave, which are divided into four parts: the Great Buddha Cave, Thousand Buddha Cave, Luohan Cave and Zhangba Buddha Cave. It was once praised as "the first wonder of Guanzhong" by Bi Yuan, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty. [63]
Bin Tower
Provincial key cultural relics protection unit. It is also known as Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda, Binxian Pagoda, and among the people, it is called "Leifeng Pagoda". Located at the foot of Ziwei Mountain in the southwest of the county, the tower is 46.94 meters high and 14.04 meters wide at the bottom. It is a pavilion-style brick tower. The tower body is octagonal, with seven hollow floors. Each floor has four arched door openings, alternating with rectangular false doors. The orientation changes layer by layer, with overlapping eaves. There are flat railings on the waist eaves, and there are amber fangs, brackets, and braces. The purlins and cornices also have tiles, dripping water, and stone corner beams, each with a hanging wind. The appearance is dignified and tall, which fully reflects the architectural style of the Song Dynasty. The tower is equipped with radial corner stairs and is paved with wooden boards. You can spiral up to the top of the tower and enjoy the scenery of the county and river roads. [64]
Yongshou Wuling Temple Tower
The tower is 27.5 meters tall, 6 meters in diameter, 21 meters in circumference, with seven and eight floors, and a brick and wooden structure. It is a pavilion style with double eaves, with brackets and cornices on each floor, winding bells at the corners, round or square doors, flat railings on the outside, and various carved patterns. Inside the tower is a two-meter square patio, with wooden stairs spiraling up to the top of the tower. The arches on the second floor face each other, and you can overlook the surrounding mountains by leaning on the railings through the arches.
In 1981, the tower was designated as the first batch of cultural relics protection units in Shaanxi Province. In the same year, a cultural relics protection monument signed by the Yongshou County People's Government was erected. There were broken bricks and tiles around the pagoda, and stone Buddha statues were unearthed. Under the pagoda, there is a stone tablet rebuilt in Wuling Temple during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. [65]
Beidu Iron Pagoda
Beidu Iron Pagoda is also known as Thousand Buddhas Tower
Beidu Iron Pagoda (Thousand Buddhas Pagoda)[66]
, a provincial key cultural relic protection unit, located in Beidu Town, 15 kilometers away from Xianyang City. The tower is square with ten levels, 33 meters high and 3 meters wide. It is made of pure iron. There are windows on each floor, the door faces south, and there is a ladder in the hollow to climb. The four corner pillars are made of Vajra Hercules statues, with a floor on top, which is particularly decent. . There are many cast-iron Buddha statues surrounding each floor, hence the name. The casts are made with exotic flowers, rare plants, rare birds and monsters, and the casting is exquisite. There is an inscription on the body of the tower: "In the 18th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1590 AD), it was cast by Du Mao, the eunuch walking in the South Study Room". A eunuch could actually finance the casting of such a huge iron tower. His power and wealth are beyond imagination. The tower body is well protected, but the tower is slightly tilted. [67]
Sanyuan City God's Temple
City God's Temple
Sanyuan City God's Temple is located in the middle of Dongqu'an Street in Sanyuan County. It was first built in the eighth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1375) and has been renovated and added nine times over the past 600 years. It is one of the most complete ancient architectural complexes of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in my country, with a total construction area of ??13,000 square meters. It is now a key cultural relic protection unit in Shaanxi Province. The City God is the god who protects the city in ancient mythology. He was later believed in by Taoism. From the Three Kingdoms to the end of the Qing Dynasty, temples were built for worship. Sanyuan City God Temple enshrines Li Jing, a famous general from Sanyuan in the Tang Dynasty. The Sanyuan City God's Temple is second to none in the country for its huge scale and majestic architecture. The City God's Temple is a palace-style building, with more than 40 individual buildings such as buildings, halls, corridors, verandas, squares, and pavilions arranged in a balanced and symmetrical manner on the vertical and horizontal axes. The five corridors and courtyards extend in depth and on both sides. There are three gates, four rows of squares and five double-eaves palaces on the central axis. The main buildings such as Yingmen, Theater Tower, Bell and Drum Tower, Presentation Hall, Worship Hall, Accompanying Hall, and Sleeping Hall each have their own characteristics. All buildings have glazed roofs, carved beams and painted beams, and are as magnificent as palaces. They embody the characteristics of ancient Chinese buildings with regular plane outlines, reasonable overall layout, rigorous structure, proper density, exquisite carvings, and elegant decorations.
The Sanyuan County Museum is located in the Chenghuang Temple. It has collected nearly 3,000 precious cultural relics and more than 100 inscriptions. Among them, Yue Fei's "Chu Shi Biao" and the original calligraphy of Yu Youren (a native of Sanyuan) are world-renowned.
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Qin Xianyang City Ruins
Xianyang was the capital of the Qin State and the Qin Dynasty in the late Warring States Period. The site is located 15 kilometers east of present-day Xianyang City, adjacent to the Weishui River in the south and Taiyuan in the north. The existing area is about 20 square kilometers.
In the "Beishan" area in the north of the central part of the site, the foundation of the palace wall with a circumference of 2747 meters was discovered. Inside and outside the palace, more than 20 building foundations have been discovered, and the ruins of palaces No. 1, 2 and 3, which are high-platform buildings, have been excavated. The base of Palace No. 1 is in the shape of a "concave" shape, 177 meters long and 45 meters wide. The rammed earth platform is 6 meters above the ground and is divided into upper and lower floors. The main palace is in the middle of the upper floor, and the surrounding and lower floors are bedrooms, washrooms, and shower rooms. Murals are painted on the interior walls. In addition to the palace city, there are also famous ruins such as Epang Palace, Lanchi Palace, and Wangyi Palace. Within the site, a wide road nearly a kilometer long was also discovered, as well as workshop ruins such as foundry, pottery, and bone making. More than 100 ash pits and more than 70 wells were excavated. The unearthed relics are mainly bricks and tiles and other building materials, as well as iron, bronze, weapons, currency and pottery. Many of the bricks and pottery are stamped with seal script and official pottery inscriptions, which are precious inscriptions for the study of Xianyang, the capital of Qin. material. [69]
Qianling Mausoleum
Qianling Mausoleum is a unique mausoleum in China and even in the world where emperors from two dynasties and a couple of emperors were buried together. Buried inside are Gao Qianling, the third emperor of the Tang Dynasty
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Zong Li Zhi, and Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit. It was built in AD 684 and took 23 years to complete.
Han Maoling is the tomb of Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. It is located in Maoling Village, Nanwei Township, northeast of Xingping City (formerly Xingping County), 40 kilometers northwest of Xi'an City. It is now a national key cultural relic protection unit. It was built between 139 BC and 87 BC, which lasted 53 years. The mausoleum of Maoling is in the shape of an overturned bucket, with an existing residual height of 46.5 meters. The base of the tomb is 240 meters long. The cemetery is square, with a side length of about 420 meters. To this day, the earthen palaces on the east, west and north sides still exist, and the tombs surrounding the mausoleum include the tombs of Mrs. Li, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Huo Guang, Jin Rixi and others. It is the largest tomb of the emperors of the Han Dynasty, took the longest to build, and has the richest burial objects. It is called the "Pyramid of China." Nine of the 11 emperors of the Western Han Dynasty are buried in Xianyang Yuan Mausoleum. The tombs are arranged from west to east, nearly a hundred miles long, and magnificent.
Han Yang Ling
Han Yang Ling, also known as Yang Ling, is a cemetery where Emperor Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty and his queen Wang were buried together in different caves. It is located in Weicheng District, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province today. It is located on the Xianyang Plain to the north of Zhangjiawan and Hougou Village in Zhengyang Town, spanning the three counties of Weicheng District, Jingyang County and Gaoling County of Xianyang City. Started in 153 BC and completed in 126 BC, the cemetery covers an area of ??20 square kilometers and took 28 years to build. The Han Yangling Museum has been completed. It is a large-scale cultural tourist attraction that skillfully integrates modern technology, ancient civilization, history, culture and garden landscape. It is the largest museum in China.
Zhaoling
The Zhaoling Mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty is the mausoleum of Li Shimin, the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty. It is the largest of the "Eighteen Tang Tombs" in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province. Jiuwei Mountain is 22.5 kilometers northwest of Quan County. It is 70 kilometers away from Xi'an City in the west, 30 kilometers away from Xianyang City, and 25 kilometers away from Xianyang International Airport. In 1961, the State Council announced Zhaoling as one of the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in the country. In 2002, it was rated as a "3A" tourist attraction by the National Tourism Administration. Zhaoling Cemetery has a circumference of 60 kilometers and covers an area of ??200 square kilometers. It has more than 180 tombs and is known as the "famous mausoleum in the world". It is the largest imperial cemetery in my country and has the most tombs. A representative imperial mausoleum from the ancient times. From the first burial of Empress Wende's grandson in the 10th year of Tang Zhenguan (636 AD) to the 29th year of Kaiyuan (743 AD), the construction of Zhaoling Cemetery lasted for 107 years, and a large number of cultural relics remained above and below ground. It is the physical witness of the early Tang Dynasty to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. It is a rare treasure house of cultural relics for us to understand and study the politics, economy and culture of the Tang Dynasty and even China's feudal society.
Guanzhong Impression—Yuanjia Village
Departing from Xi’an, drive for about an hour to Yuanjia Village, which is known as the “Guanzhong Impression Experience Place”. Yuanjia Village is located at the foot of Jiuwei Mountain to the north of Yanxia Town, Liquan County. Walking into the village, what greets people is a picture of farm life that is close to the original ecology. Visitors feel as if they have traveled through time and space, as if they have returned to the 1850s and 1960s.
Walking into the simple and elegant alley, there are many shops and workshops on both sides. There are oil factory Deruiheng, glutinous rice factory Daoxiangcun, tofu factory Lushi Tofu, spicy food factory Tianyi Pavilion, noodle shop Wufutang, tea house Tongjigong, vinegar shop Wuweizhai, Bufang Yongtaihe, medicine shop Tongshuntang---- --In the vinegar shop, jars and bottles of hand-brewed pure grain vinegar are exuding an alluring fragrance; in the noodle shop, interested visitors are pushing the heavy stone mill with interest, and the white flour slowly flows. Slowly overflowing; in the cloth workshop, a mother with a face full of vicissitudes of life is sitting in front of an ancient loom and carefully weaving beautiful homespun cloth; in the oil workshop, the huge oil press made of old wood is breathtaking; in the medicine shop, floating The faint medicinal fragrance lingers in my nose;... Stepping on the antique bluestone slabs under my feet and admiring the Ming and Qing-style buildings with a Guanzhong flavor, I marveled at the wisdom of the cadres and the masses here. At the same time, the scene here also gave me, a person born in the 1960s, an inexplicable sense of intimacy.
Xunyi Taitai Tower
The vicissitudes of Taitai Tower is located in the middle school of Xunyi County. It was built in the fourth year of Jiayou in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 1059). The tower is 53 meters high. Covering an area of ??120 square meters, it is an octagonal, seven-story pavilion-style masonry structure. The tower is hollow, with a wooden ladder spiraling to the top. Each floor has arched door openings and rectangular false doors alternately. There are windows on both sides of the doors on each floor, and they are engraved with rhombus lattice and curved railings. The whole building is simple and spectacular from a distance, majestic and upright, and the workmanship is fine, smart and elegant when viewed up close.
The Tai Pagoda, also known as the Xunyi Pagoda, was originally located in a monk's temple. However, due to historical changes and damage from wars, the temple has long since ceased to exist. The remaining pagoda is still standing tall after nearly a thousand years. The name of Tai Pagoda is based on the traditional Chinese Bagua theory. The building base of this tower is located in the "Tai position" of Bagua in the Bagua theory. Therefore, Xunyi Pagoda is also called "Taita". Due to the destruction of the war, the tower was seriously damaged before the founding of New China. In 1959, the tower was repaired. The stone tablet erected under the pagoda is a monument to the repair of the pagoda.
At present, due to its age, the pagoda's foundation has sunk, and it is now tilting toward the northeast. It has been measured to have deviated from the center line by 2.296 meters. Therefore, it is called the "China's Leaning Tower of Pisa". In 2001, Taita was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit