ShanXi Travel Guide

Abbreviations: Shaan

Area: 205,800 square km

Population: 37.05 million, with Han, Hui, Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan and other peoples.

Location: Located in the hinterland of China's inland areas of the middle reaches of Yellow River, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Chongqing City, neighbors.

Capital: Xian

Division: Under 8 prefecture-level cities and 2 districts and 5 county-level cities, 19 municipal districts, 83 counties.

Shaanxi Province is the birthplace of one of the Chinese nation, as a result of the ancient Qin and therefore referred to as "Qin"; after the two-thirds of the Qin Xiang Yu, the so called "SANQIN." "State of Qin emperor in ancient times," the Yellow Emperor in ancient time, Yan has been in Shaanxi activities. Since the beginning of another week Qin, Western Han Dynasty, the Western Jin, Former Zhao , Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasty in Shaanxi 13 capital, as long as 1180. In addition, Liu Xuanzhong, Huang Chao, Li 4 peasant uprising in the regime set up 11 years in the summer Helian Dingbian Changan capital for 24 years. The history of China's provinces, the longest capital.

A long history of Shaanxi to the ground leaving the ground floor of a very rich historical and revolutionary relics - Chinese ancestor Huangdi Xuanyuan, Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, Tang Zhaoling, Tang Emperor Qianling, the tomb of Sima Qian, Liang Mianxian Tomb of Ming Dynasty city wall of Xi'an, the Buddhist Pure Land plot ofTemple incense, the Grace Temple Lane mosque in Xi'an of sleep, Famen Temple, as well as archaeological finds, the Wild Goose Pagoda, Small Goose Pagoda, Fufeng Famen Temple tower, Temple Pagoda SANYANG , the Chongwenmen Jingyang Temple Pagoda, Binxian Dafosi Grottoes, Cliff Figures Yaoxian, Zhongshan Grottoes Zichang County, as well as land and watersculpture Um, Xi'an Forest of Stone Tablets, Yaoxian Forest of Stone Tablets, Lueyang Forest of Stone Tablets, the Inscription on behalf of the path along the cliff in southern Shaanxi Inscription of Shihmen, famous stone, stone Han, Tang and Tang Qianling stone tomb stone bridge. As well as the prosperous Silk Road.

There are many museums in Shaanxi: Shaanxi History Museum, First Emperor of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, the Museum of Art in the Tang Dynasty in Xi'an, Xianyang Museum, Hanzhong City Museum, Forest of Stone Tablets Museum, Banpo Ruins Museum, Qianling Museum, Lintong Hua Qing, Yaozhou Site Museum, Sima Qian and the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall Memorial Hall Memorial Hall and so on the Xi'an Incident.
 Its natural landscape is also very rich north and south of China's geographical boundaries of the Qinling Mountains, the Qinling Mountains and the Loess Plateau, north of the Weihe River valley; are dangerous Huashan; beautiful quiet Zhongnanshan; romantic Lishan. Shaanxi All this casts a veil of beautiful and mysterious.