Daming Palace National Heritage Park

Shaanxi History Museum: Advance reservations are required. It has 7 halls; halls 1, 2, and 3 are closed for renovations. Halls 4 and 5 are very small; the main exhibits are in halls 6 and 7. A guided tour of halls 6 and 7 costs approximately 350 yuan and takes about 2 hours. There is no self-guided audio guide. It's quite expensive. Da Ci'en Temple: There is a free incense offering area. Climbing the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is not included; an additional fee is required. It takes about an hour to see everything. The musical fountain at the North Square of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is magnificent and beautiful. There are two shows at 8 pm and 9 pm, each about 20 minutes long, worth watching. Afterwards, I strolled to the Tang Paradise. This was my second visit; it wasn't anything new, just a commercial street with no shows, and the food was very expensive. Daming Palace National Heritage Park: This was my second visit. It wasn't crowded during the week. Enter through Danfeng Gate. There's a Danfeng Gate Museum; a combined ticket allows entry. At the exit, there's a mini-train (39 yuan per person) that circles the outside of the Daming Palace National Heritage Park. From the exit, walk across the bridge to the ticket checkpoint. After entering, I recommend taking the park's electric shuttle bus. It costs 29 yuan per person, 39 yuan per person during peak season, to reach the Daming Palace Ruins Museum. I suggest buying the Ctrip all-inclusive ticket for 88 yuan, which includes the entrance fee (60 yuan), the shuttle bus, and a free guided tour. The visit inside takes about 40 minutes. After exiting the museum, you'll see a miniature landscape of Daming Palace. After viewing the miniature landscape, you can take the shuttle bus to tour the entire site. You can get off at any time, but it's not really necessary; you can see everything from the bus. The shuttle bus also provides commentary. It goes all the way to the park exit. Xi'an City Wall I entered from the south entrance of Yongning Gate and exited from Hanguang Gate, which took about 40 minutes. If you walk and rest occasionally, it should take about half an hour. It's very sunny in the morning during this season; I recommend going in the evening if you're in summer. There are also bicycles for rent on the city wall for 45 yuan for 3 hours.

Stepping into the Daming Palace Ruins Park, a restored Danfeng Gate stands in the spacious square, and the imperial road paved with blue bricks stretches into the distance. The ruins display areas on both sides use modern technology to recreate the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

It's quite large, but there are electric carts available inside, making it worth a visit for those interested in history. It's a pity that only ruins remain; it would have been quite impressive if they had been preserved.

Echoes of the prosperous Tang Dynasty on the ruins: a dialogue between the ancient and modern times of the Daming Palace ruins North of Chang'an City, a 3.5 square kilometer area of ​​land has been lying quietly for a thousand years. This was once the heart of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, where all nations came to pay tribute. Now it has become the Daming Palace National Heritage Park. In the urban forest of reinforced concrete, it knocks on the spiritual world of modern people with its unique ruins aesthetics. When tourists step into this land, the folds of time and space unfold under their feet, and a civilization dialogue spanning a thousand years quietly begins. 1. The code of the prosperous Tang Dynasty in the ruins On the rammed earth base of the Hanyuan Hall, 36 red lacquered wooden columns stand according to the original coordinates, and the mottled column base stones form a dialogue between time and space with the brand-new wooden structure. Archaeologists have accurately restored the texture of this most magnificent wooden structure in Chinese history through carbon-14 testing and document verification. The slope of the Danbi stone steps is precisely controlled at 30 degrees, which is in line with human body mechanics and implicitly coincides with the ritual meaning of "standing at the age of thirty". The willow trees along the Taiye Lake follow the planting spacing recorded in Youyang Zazu in the Tang Dynasty, and the water lily species in the pond have been confirmed by plant archaeology to be common species in the Chang'an Palace Garden during the Tang Dynasty. In the digital restoration exhibition hall, holographic projection transforms the architectural regulations in the Tang Liudian into a three-dimensional model. With AR devices in hand, visitors can see the tail of the Linde Hall shining with gilded luster in the sun, and the curves of the three-layer flying eaves are completely consistent with the miniature wooden structure model of the Daming Palace. This virtual and real display makes the "juzhe method" in the "Yingzaofashi" no longer an obscure professional term. 2. Modern translation of the site The archaeological exploration square is transformed into an open-air museum, and the scale scale on the edge of the exploration square is transformed into an art installation. Every 10 centimeters of descent represents a century. Visitors walk slowly down the slope, and the glass floor under their feet displays unearthed cultural relics from different cultural layers: Kaiyuan Tongbao, tri-color fragments, and gilded door nails emerge one after another. This spatial narrative transforms the archaeological process into an immersive experience, making the stratigraphic principles in the Archaeological Work Manual tangible and perceptible. The soundscape design of the park is quite ingenious. The audio of the morning bell and evening drum is collected from the Buddhist bell of the Toshodaiji Temple in Japan, which is exactly the same as the rhythm recorded in the Dunhuang manuscript P.3808. When the modern electronic bell sound resonates with it, it resonates wonderfully with the "palace hanging sound" recorded in the "Yuefu Miscellaneous Records". This practice of acoustic archaeology has given Bai Juyi's artistic conception of "the morning light shines on the beams of the house" a contemporary echo. 3. The regeneration field of cultural memory The immersive drama "Rainbow Feathered Clothes" on the Liyuan site, the pattern of the dancer's skirt is reproduced from the gold embroidery craftsmanship unearthed from the underground palace of Famen Temple. The dance trajectory recorded by the motion capture technology forms a digital comparison with the dance posture in the murals of Cave 220 of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. This dialogue between the past and the present is not a simple imitation of form, but a reconstruction of the aesthetic genes of the music and dance of the heyday of the Tang Dynasty through the collision of "Jiaofang Ji" and contemporary choreography theory. The cultural and creative development of the site park has created a new model. Based on the lotus-patterned square bricks unearthed from the Daming Palace, the designer extracted a modular pattern library, and visitors can create personalized cultural and creative works through a 3D printing pen. This participatory protection mechanism transforms the aesthetic principle of "business location" in "Records of Famous Paintings of All Dynasties" into a design language accessible to the public.

The ruins of Daming Palace spanned a thousand years. Although the ruins under your feet have become a park, every step you take here is traveling through time and space and meeting the Tang people. It seems that the air can be filled with the breath of the Tang people. This is not just any Tang land, this is the palace of the Great Tang Dynasty. Every person who has walked here has made a great contribution to the history of China. Every section of palace wall that remains here is a story and a legend. Thousands of years later, it seems I can still feel it! Entering the Daming Palace National Heritage Park feels like traveling back to the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. The entire heritage park covers a vast area and is divided into two parts: the South Courtyard and the North Courtyard. The South Courtyard is the core area of ​​the Daming Palace complex, preserving a series of palaces, halls, gardens and ponds. The North Courtyard retains the banquet hall, carriage house and other auxiliary facilities of the Daming Palace. In addition to the architectural complex, Daming Palace National Heritage Park also has a rich variety of cultural activities. A series of cultural festivals are held every year, such as the Tang Dynasty Festival, music festivals, dance performances, etc. These activities reproduced the culture and art of the Tang Dynasty before the world through music, dance, drama and other forms, providing people with an audio-visual feast. At the Daming Palace National Heritage Park, we saw Xi’an’s historical heritage and cultural confidence. It shows the beauty and charm of this city to the world in its unique way, making people love and cherish this land more. Let us feel the charm of Xi'an and experience the surprises and fun brought by Daming Palace National Heritage Park!

Walking into the Daming Palace National Heritage Park, it is as if you travel through time and space and return to the prosperous Tang Dynasty when all nations came to pay tribute. Although this palace complex, once the largest in the world, has now become a ruin, its grand momentum and historical weight are still overwhelming. Walking in front of the ruins of the Hanyuan Hall, it seems that you can feel the grand occasion of the emperor's enthronement and the worship of officials; standing by the Taiye Lake, it seems that you can experience the poetry and tranquility of the royal garden. The ruins park vividly reproduces the glory and vicissitudes of the Daming Palace through restored models, cultural relics displays and modern technology. Every brick and stone, every relic, silently tells the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty and the inheritance of civilization. This place is not only a witness to history, but also a symbol of Chinese culture. Visiting the ruins of the Daming Palace made me deeply feel the passage of time and the profoundness of history, and also made me cherish the present more and think about how to better inherit and promote this precious cultural heritage.

The scenic area is very large, and there are many citizens running and jogging here. The outermost circle of the park is about seven kilometers long, and there are often many people running here. In the small square in the park, there are many citizens singing, dancing, and flying kites. It is very lively. Tickets are required to visit the core area of ​​the scenic area. Because the park is relatively large, the scenic area has sightseeing cars and bicycles for tourists to rent. Take Metro Line 4 to Xi'an Station and then exit the North Square to reach the south gate of the scenic area and see the majestic Danfeng Gate. The scenic area often holds various performances and sports events, which is very worth visiting.

The ceremonial area from Danfeng Gate to the south of Hanyuan Hall is a Tang culture theme park, and the government area from Hanyuan Hall to Zichen Hall is an archaeological theme park, which is a paid area. The palace garden area is the area where the emperors of the Tang Dynasty had leisure and entertainment, and there are a large number of garden landscapes that are free of charge.