Visiting the Shaanxi History Museum - Xi'an China

Hey everyone, Joshua Hanlon here and I am in Xi'an, China at the Shaanxi History Museum and I'm actually joined by a guide here who actually has been trained in like tourism and giving tours in China. So if you want to tell us a little bit about what type of history is in the museum and maybe for someone visiting from America what type of history they can explore if they visit. Okay hello everyone, I'm Biling from China, Xi'an and Shaanxi History Museum is the first large museum in our country and it was established in 1991 and it covers 3,700 pieces of history relics and it covers a long history from maybe from the one million years ago to the present and it shows the whole process of the Chinese history and the most distinctive dynasty in China is the Zhou dynasty, Qin dynasty, Han dynasty and Tang dynasty and in Shaanxi History Museum you will find that. Yeah so it's great because this area here is really like the birthplace of Chinese civilization right so because of that you get the very beginning like you mentioned lots and lots of years ago all the way to today and you can have a really good understanding of Chinese history once you visit. What are some of your favorite objects that are in here some of the type of art and some of the objects that people can see? My favorite object may be the lion, the walking lion and if you went to the gallery you will see a huge walking lion and the walking lion is symbol in ancient time the walking lion the lion is a symbol of royal family and means power and massive powers and the prosperity is from Tang dynasty it's very impressive and that is my kind of my favorite in this museum. The walking lion was very cool yeah and you see those lions everywhere in China so it's an excellent museum here in Xi'an if you're visiting so a lot of people come here to this area for the terracotta warriors well this museum is well worth a visit as well because you'll have a much better understanding of Chinese history once you visit here. Thanks so much for joining me for this video I really appreciate it. One of the most interesting things you'll learn about in the museum is the Xi'an city wall which still stands today and is one of the best preserved medieval walls of its kind in the world and one major part of that wall is the fascinating fortification technology that went into building the gates and the whole section of the wall to make it as strong as possible. Technology also plays a key role within the museum because they use technology to tell the stories of significant figures throughout Chinese history and tell stories such as the Silk Road and how it connected the west with China and how Xi'an was a major player on the Silk Road because that's where it started and went out west and was able to kind of really help bring together both sides of the world and so all of that is told through technology through videos and through as much modern technology as possible which really helps the museum tell its story. A note for when you're traveling here and want to get your tickets to my left here you can see the line to the left of the entrance and this is a free ticket line and if you bring your passport and stand in line then you can actually get a ticket for free to get in the museum. The problem with that is the line can be very very long so then to the right of the entrance over here you can see where the paid ticket entrance is and so this will get you into the special exhibits but it does cost but you also avoid the super long lines at the the free ticket area so my suggestion would be pay to see the special exhibits and you pay a little bit extra just to skip that line and you can get in a lot quicker.