Xian Highlights One Day Tour

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Tour Itinerary: (Lunch)

The first stop on the tour is the famous Shaanxi museum where you can see the history of Xi”an from a totally new perspective. Afterwards you go to the cities Great Mosque where you can see the religious spot of the cities 60,000 Muslim residents. Afterwards go on to the lengthy City Wall where you are able to ride bikes through the entire length around the city. It was used in ancient times as a military defense. The last stop of the day is The Big Wild Goose Pagoda in close proximity to the city wall. The tower is 7 floors and was constructed in 589 AD. It is still kept up to maintain the authenticity and antiquity that it originally possessed.

Big Wild Goose Pagoda

Originally built in 652 during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), it functioned to collect Buddhist materials that were taken from India by the hierarch Xuanzang.

Xuanzang started off from Chang’an (the ancient Xian), along the Silk Road and through deserts, finally arriving in India, the cradle of Buddhism. Enduring 17 years and traversing 100 countries, he obtained Buddha figures, 657 kinds of sutras, and several Buddha relics. Having gotten the permission of Emperor Gaozong (628-683), Xuanzang, as the first abbot of Da Ci’en Temple, supervised the building of a pagoda inside it. With the support of royalty, he asked 50 hierarchs into the temple to translate Sanskrit in sutras into Chinese, totaling 1,335 volumes, which heralded a new era in the history of translation. Based on the journey to India, he also wrote a book entitled ‘Pilgrimage to the West’ in the Tang Dynasty, to which scholars attached great importance.

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