Xi'an - Yangling Museum of Western Han Dynasty

Located along the express way from Xianyang airport to Xi’an city, Yangling is the joint mausoleum garden of Liuqi, the fourth emperor of Western Han Dynasty, and his wife. It is the most well preserved mausoleum of Han Dynasty. Large number of precious relics of 2000 years ago are displayed in the museum, which was built in 1999.

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Xi'an - Xianyang Museum

Located in the west , 30 Kilometers away from Xi’an city, Xianyang Museum derives from the Confucian temple like the Museum of Forest of Stone Tablets . There are many relics from Qin and Han Dynasties in Chinese history such as the ‘ terra-cotta warriors and horses’ of Han Dynasty , the precious bricks and currency of Qin Dynasty and so on . It is worthy of visiting because there are so many historic relics.

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Xi'an - Mt. Huashan

Mt. Huashan is one of the five famous mountains in China. It is famous for its high and grotesque peaks, and steep cliffs. It is consisted of five peaks – Eastern, Western, Southern, Northern and central peaks. As a perilous place, ancient buildings and natural beautiful scenery can be seen anywhere from foot to the top, such as Hundred-foot Gorge, Laojun Furrow, Heavenward Ladder and Old Dragon Ridge.

At a height of 2,160 meters above sea level and about 120km/3hours east of Xian, Huashan, literally translated as Flower Mountain, is a sight for sore eyes. The mountain has for centuries been deemed as one of Chinas five sacred mountains (Wu ye), along with one Hengshan to the northeast, Songshan and Taishan to the east and another Hengshan to the southeast.

Huashan, also known as the Western Mountain (Xi yue) due to its geographical location in relation to the others, is famed as the most precipitous of the five. Along the 12km path leading from the foot of the mountain, where it starts at the Jade Fountain Temple (Yuchuan si), to its five peaks, you will get the chance to see some impressive scenes, including the strangely shaped granite peaks and the twisted pines, that make up this, one of the lesser visited of the holy mountains.

The peaks from above are said to resemble the petals of a huge plant, with the middle peak as the corolla, hence the mountains name. Of the five peaks it is the southern peak (2,100 meters) that is the largest, closely followed by those in the east and west. The ascent provides not only natural scenery, but also a number of man-made constructions that, for better or worse, are now a part of the mountains tourist culture.

The route to conquer the peaks passes by temples, shrines, pavilions, terraces, carvings, statues, food stalls and hawkers, that appear interspersed between the stark granite paths and forested margins. Along the Green Dragon Ridge (Bilong ji), which connects the northern peak with the remaining peaks, the way is cut along a narrow rock ridge with steep cliffs on either side. Some of this route can be a little dangerous, despite the iron chains that are linked on the more precipitous sections.

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Xi'an - Tomb of Huo Qubing

It is the most unique secondary tomb located about 1.5 kilometers northeast of Maoling Mausoleum. Huo Qubing was a brave and skillful general of Emperor Wudi and led his troops to fight the invading Xiongnu across the Qilian Mountain. He died at the age of 24. Emperor Wudi gave orders to build his tomb in the shape of Qilian Mountain where the general had achieved his first victory and to erect sixteen remarkable stone figures of beasts and demons in front of hi tomb to commemorate his deeds. The stone carvings in front of his tomb were exquisitely done in bold style. Of the sculptures, the most renowned is "Galloping over the Xiongnu", showing a 168 cm high and 190 cm long horse trampled on a dying, yet still defying, Hun, a work of art aptly summing up the achievements of the young general in his meteoric career. The groups of statues are the earliest giant-sized stone sculptures known to stand in front of an ancient tomb in China.

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Xi'an - Maoling Mausoleum

It’s the tomb of Emperor Wudi (140 B.C. - 87 B.C.) - Liu Che, the fifth emperor of the Western Han is located about 45 kilometers from Xian. Emperor Wudi ascended the throne at 16 and was in power for 54 years. He was always mentioned with Emperor Qin Shihuang who established the autocratic state of centralized power in the feudal society for his thoroughly consolidation on it. Wudi died at 71 and was buried in Maoling.

His tomb was a subulate in shape with a flathead 39.5 in wide 35.5 in length. The tomb covers 54,054 square meters. On the remains of the bounding walls, the vestiges of watchtowers could be seen. The largest among the tombs of the Western Han, with richest funeral objects, the tomb spent one third of yearly taxes and tributes of the state.

The tomb became a focus and over 20 satellite tombs of officials and nobles were around the tomb. Excavations from the tomb include large collections of buried objects and building materials. Eave tiles, Han bricks, pottery figures and other valuable historical relics as well as grandeur stone carvings originally placed in front of Huo Qubing tomb, are now on display.

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Xi'an - Tomb of Prince Yide

Lies to the southeast of Qianling is the tomb of Prince Yide - the first son of Emperor Zhongzong. He died in 701 A.D. at 19 years old. In 705, when Zhongzong returned to the throne he was awarded posthumously the title of Crown Prince Yide and in 706 his remains was moved to the Qianling. A mound and enclosure walls surrounded the tomb of Prince Yide in a rectangle. To the south of the walls was a pair of stone lions, stone figures (one was destroyed and only the pedestal remains), and a pair of obelisks (destroyed and buried in the earth when collapsed). The tomb consists of a tomb tunnel, three doors, seven air-shafts, eight niches, tomb chambers. It is altogether 10.8 meters in length. Over 40 impressive well-preserved mural paintings in the tomb depict the court life including guards of honor, the Blue Dragon, White Tiger, city walls, watch towers, musicians, men-servants and maids of honor, which show Li Chongruns special identity.

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Xi'an - Princess Yongtai’s tomb

2km northeast Qianling Mausoleum, Princess Yongtai’s Tomb, now the site of Qianling Museum, is a chief satellite tomb to Qianling. Princess Yongtai was the grand daughter of the Tang Emperor Gaozong and his wife Empress Wu zetian. In the first year of Dazu(701 A.D.), she and her husband were killed by Wu Zetian because she tacked about the scandalous affairs between Wu Zetian and her men prostitutes. After mounting to the throne, Zhongzong ordered to bury his daughter –Yongtai and her husband together in Qianling.

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