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A
city
in central
China
that among other things is home to the famous Terra Cotta Army and the beginning (or the end) of the Silk Road. Xi'an was the capital of
China
during 11 dynasties and has now become one of the larger cities in
China
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Xi'an
means
Western Peace
, and was the
capitol
of the
earliest
dynasties
of
Chinese civilization
(then known as
Chang'an
. Because it is far west/
inland
from the major cities of
China
, it is generally visited by
tourist
s only for the
Terra Cotta Army
--which is certainly well worth a
visit
, especially the second and third
area
s which are still being excavated. However, there is more to see, many
palace
s and such, the goofy statue of
Yang Guifei
, and so on. The ancient
city wall
s are also quite impressive, and would be
more so
if they hadn't been mostly destroyed during
Mao's Cultural Revolution
.
Driving through the
countryside
on the way to the
city
is amazing: nearly every
farmer
's
field
is interrupted here and there by
archaelogical dig
s. Xi'an proper is still being "developed," and it's full of half-built, rusting factories and empty
Soviet
-style
apartment building
s without glass in the
window
s. It's also very, very
dusty
, at least in the
summer
.
From Xi'an you can take a
day trip
to
Leshan
, or hop the
train
to about
anywhere
.
NB: Sometimes people query whether "Xi'an" is an outdated
romanization
, since the use of the ' in Chinese names went out when
Pinyin
came in. Actually, this is a useful convention and is accepted as standard. Xi'an is two syllables, and if it were romanized without a space like most two syllable words are now, it would look like a different sound, the single
syllable
"xian."
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