We came to Xianu on Monday night by train. Xian is a very old city, the capital of 13 dynasties in Chinese ancient times, before taking the field Nanjingowi (Nanjing, capital of the South) and Beijingowi (Beijing, the northern capital). Among other things, the first emperor Qin Shi Huang Di (third century BC), had his capital here, and near his mausoleum megalomaniackie against whom he commanded to set the terracotta army who had his serve in the afterlife.
see much of that now, admittedly, is the city wall (big and tall, but most recently rebuilt) and a few monuments in the city, but most of the modern city, richer than in Chengdu, but somehow ... without a soul, and with a huge invasion of tourists (you know, terra cotta army ...).
first day, apart from trips to the settlement of the Army for the next day and passage through the city I saw the towers dzwonna and I met for dinner with the nice Chinese lady who we met on the train, Xiaomin, a student of medicine.
Today we spent the whole day on a trip to places west of the city. We were a small group, we, four Canadians and a Korean woman. They took us to some most first museum with relics of the Buddha Sakyamuni (the historical Buddha, some ankle), and then to the famous hot springs, especially where the emperors of the Tang Dynasty in August admired, and also the Chang Kai Shek.
with Chang Kai Shekiem story was affiliated, In 1931 Japan invaded China. Chang Kai Shek, leader of the Nationalist Party, did not wanted to sprzymiezyc with the Communists against the new enemy. 2 own generals from his residence in the hot springs kidnapped and forced to agree. call this "incident Xianski"
In the end we got to the Terracotta Army. Built myself (always under the earth) there iles hundred thousand workers and artists (they said to us 700 000) in recent decades. It was supposed to serve the first emperor after the death, says to get the afterlife and to overcome all of whom where previously sent the emperor himself (among others glorified the Confucian scholars zeziach). But the emperor was at the end of life more and more crazy (potions dlugowecznosc based on mercury did not help), not to spare his subjects and has established a successor. His son was soon overthrown by the army in a most ztrzaskana and set on fire (ie the room in which it was).
Fortunately, there has been enough by now, archaeologists can I restore. The Army is doing his impression of vastness, even though only a small part of it was excavated. Discovered four chambers, infantry, locznikow, command and infinite (artists fled before the rebels). This command has not been set on fire by rebels and destroyed, but it collapsed with time.
call her eight wonder of the world - which because of the emergence date, fits.
visited even a few less important places, it was a generally interesting trip.
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