Namely, the ancient capital of Chang'an, Xi'an has a long cultural history has always been China's political center. It is said that when the founding of Xi'an lack of three votes, almost become the new capital of China.
Arrival in Xi'an ago, I imagined, as Beijing, Xi'an should be as a serious city. And the Chinese are not the same as were inland cities. Reliance on industry to survive, the economy is not very developed culture, the more conservative city. Surprisingly, Xian is a very busy, yet relaxed fashion, set business, tourism, industry in one of the big cities. The extent of her bustling Guangzhou favorably than their urban planning rather orderly, and admirable. Xi'an is the only one still intact walls of the city, known as the city within the walls, is outside of the outside. The central city is an ancient bell tower, this tower is the one with strong ethnic characteristics of the Ming Dynasty architecture. To highlight the ancient city of Xi'an, the characteristics of all the buildings in the city can not be higher than the clock tower. With the hope that the Drum Tower Clock Tower relative to these two buildings around the square as the center is the center of Xi'an. A very busy commercial streets of downtown on the quantity and quality of store point of view, Xi'an, the level of people's spending power is high. Sidewalk Wubu Yi Gang 10-step a variety of posts IC phone booths, well-developed public transport network, and the ubiquitous banking network systems to reflect that this is a fairly modern city.
Chat with local friends, we learned that the reason is different from other inland provincial capital Xi'an city, developments such as rapidly, with the Xi'an history, culture, geographical conditions closely linked. Shaanxi Province is located in the middle Yellow River, is the birthplace of Chinese culture. He plateau, mountains mainly located in the Weihe Plain, Xi'an, the province accounted for only 19%, which is transportation, the economy developed regions. And Chang is more than 10 dynasties in Chinese history, Wang Du, the source of the Silk Road. Is the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures. Since reform and opening, Xi'an, with her history, geographical advantages and rich tourism resources, convenient transportation, rapid economic development in northwest China's economic, cultural, transportation "capital."
Walk around in Xi'an, as long as our attention to look at pedestrian street clothing, apparel sold in boutiques, cinemas, the last picture film, you will find in Xi'an, pop culture is just as impressive in Guangzhou. And she's culinary culture is more abundant than in Guangdong, five days in Xi'an, we are in every meal taste a variety of characteristics of Xi'an snacks, no less than the number of dozens of kinds, but we left Xi'an was also unable to put the flavor widest range of ethnic snacks. There is an old saying, "regardless of grain, five body is not labor," local friends specially treated grain cereals that we eat one meal a full meal. Until then I realized that grain that is not what I imagined rice, wheat, but some I have never known crops, this time really "big grains", and the original "grain" refers to buckwheat, broom corn millet, maize , millet and sorghum. Interestingly, in Xi'an, we tasted all kinds of porridge, did not drink too white porridge, where the most common millet gruel, black gruel, red gruel are all I have never seen in Guangdong. This experience for me, really has a special novelty is definitely a lifetime.
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