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Museums Attractions In Shaanxi

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Shaanxi is a province of the People's Republic of China. Officially part of the Northwest China region, it lies in central China, bordering the provinces of Shanxi , Henan , Hubei , Chongqing , Sichuan , Gansu , Ningxia , and Inner Mongolia . It covers an area of over 205,000 km2 with about 37 million people. Xi'an – which includes the sites of the former Chinese capitals Fenghao and Chang'an – is the provincial capital. Xianyang, which served as the Qin dynasty capital, is located nearby. The other prefecture-level cities into which the province is divided are Ankang, Baoji, Hanzhong, Shangluo, Tongchuan, Weinan, Yan'an and Yulin. Shaanxi comprise...
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Museums Attractions In Shaanxi

  • 1. Han Yang Ling Museum Xianyang
    The Han Yang Ling , or the Yang Mausoleum of Han, is the mausoleum of Emperor Jing, the fourth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty and his Empress Wang. The mausoleum complex is located in the Weicheng district of the City of Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, on the northern bank of the Wei River and about 20 km to the north of the city center of the provincial capital of Xi’an.
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  • 7. Qianling Museum Qian County
    The Qianling Mausoleum is a Tang dynasty tomb site located in Qian County, Shaanxi province, China, and is 85 km northwest from Xi'an, formerly the Tang capital. Built by 684 , the tombs of the mausoleum complex house the remains of various members of the House of Li, the imperial family of the Tang dynasty. This includes Emperor Gaozong , as well as his wife, Wu Zetian, who usurped the Tang throne and became China's only reigning female emperor from 690–705. The mausoleum is renowned for its many Tang dynasty stone statues located above ground and the mural paintings adorning the subterranean walls of the tombs. Besides the main tumulus mound and underground tomb of Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian, there are 17 smaller attendant tombs or peizang mu. Presently, only five of these attendant...
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  • 8. Maoling Mausoleum Xingping
    The Maoling or Mao Mausoleum is the mausoleum of Emperor Wu of Han located in Xingping, Shaanxi, China, about 40 km to the west of the provincial capital of Xi'an. The tomb is the largest of all tombs built during the Han Dynasty. It is also well known as Great White Pyramid since U.S. Army Air Corps pilot James Gaussman saw it as a white jewel-topped pyramid during a flight between India and China during World War II . It is a trapezoidal tumulus built from rammed earth with a rectangular base which measures 222 by 217 metres and a height of 47 metres . Construction of the tomb began in 139 BC, the second year in the reign of Emperor Wu and took 53 years until completion upon the emperor's death. About one third of the court's annual revenue from taxes and tributes was used towards constr...
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  • 9. Baoji History Museum Baoji
    Baoji is a prefecture-level city in western Shaanxi province, People's Republic of China.
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  • 11. Baoji Municipal Museum Baoji
    The Baoji Bronzeware Museum is an archaeology museum in Baoji, Shaanxi, China. It has a collection of more than 120,000 pieces of cultural relics through the ages, most of them are Zhou dynasty bronze wares. Baoji Bronze Ware Museum's present building, which opened in 2010, occupies an area of more than 50,800 square metres , with a total floor space of 34,788 square metres .
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  • 13. The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses Xi An
    The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife. The figures, dating from approximately the late third century BCE, were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, Shaanxi province. The figures vary in height according to their roles, with the tallest being the generals. The figures include warriors, chariots and horses. Estimates from 2007 were that the three pits containing the Terracotta Army held more than 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which remained buried in the pits nearby...
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  • 15. Famen Temple (Famen Si) Fufeng County
    Famen Temple is a Buddhist temple located in Famen town , Fufeng County, 120 kilometers west of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It was widely regarded as the ancestor of pagoda temples in Guanzhong.
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