Terracotta Warriors is the most famous tourist attraction in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, and it is in lintong District, which was originally a county affiliated with Xi'an municipality, but now it has transfered into a executive district in Xi'an municipality.  It will take you about 1 hour from Xi'an city area to Lintong by taxi, and about 1 and half hour to Terracotta Warriors.

    Terracotta Warriors is the national key cultural protection unit, it is the World Cultural Heritage listed by UNESCO, it is the world eighth miracle, the 5A tourist attraction in China, it was first built in Qin Dynasty, about 1800 years ago, first discovered in 1974.

    The construction struction of Terracotta Warriors is very complicated, it comprises 4 pits, actually the first 3 is full of warrior statues, meanwhile the No.4 pit is empty, assuming that No.4 pit wasn't actually completed in building because of the revolts of farmers at the end of Qin Emperor's reign.

    The archaeology process of Terracotta Warriors is also very complex, and here is a very famous people I have to mention, his name is Zhifa Yang, he is the discoverer of Terracotta Warriors.

    Mentioning here, I have to tell you the story of the discovery of Terracotta Warriors, that is a story happened many years ago, On 1st March of 1974, Zhifa Yang hired some farmers to dig a well near his house, and they accidentally found some ceramic piles, and gradually digging, they successively  found some ceramic warriors, and they report the news to the local government, several days later, Cultural relics bureau sent some workers here to finally found Terracotta Warriors, and finally built a museum.

    The warriors statue is various in shapes. you can see warriors standing, crouching, moving forward, knight, infantry, cavalry, and some other shapes at all, and even horse statue is also very precious.

    In 1978, French president Chirac visited Terracotta Warriors and give a very high compliment on it, Ditto, in 1998, president of United States of America, Clinton, said almost the same words about Terracotta Warriors.

    Above all, Terracotta Warriors is the place you must go if you wanna to go to Xi'an for a tour visit. I, personall, highly recommend this area to you, and this place belongs to temperate continental monsoon climate, so the best time to come here is on Spring, Summer and Autumn.

    Terracotta Warriors warmly welcomes friends from all over the world to have a visit.

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    Hongqi Canal is a man-made canal, which is located at Lin County, Anyang Municipality, Lin County is in the junction of Henan Province, Shan'xi Province and Hebei Province, and it is the place which is in serious condition of drought and in a bad shortage of water.

    According to historical materials, Lin County has been in serious drought condition since Ming Dynasty-AD 1436, hundreds of natural disasters has taken place in Lin County from Ming Dynasty to the foundation of New PRC, and there are 39 times of no harvest of crops in Lin County because of drought. So the people of Lin County has been trying hard enough to find way out to solve drought problem, though the achievements are little.

    And what's more, in 1959, the only 4 rivers in Lin County has dried up, so Lin County had to find water out of Lin County, back then, Lin's government decided to transfer the Zhuzhang River to Lin County, and Zhuzhang River is in Shan'xi Province, after the approvement of Shan'xi government, Lin's people decided to make a canal to transfer the water into Lin County.

    The construction of  Red Flag Canal started at the Feb of 1960, and ended at Jul of 1969, the project took nearly 10 years, 1250 mountaintop had been hewn, 151 aqueducts had been set up, 211 tunnels had been digged, built 12408 constructions of every type, digged and layered 22250 thousand cubic meters of earth and stones, the total length of Red Flag Canal is 70.6 meters, from Shicheng Town, Shan'xi Province to Rencun Town, Henan Province, main and branch canal distributed in every towns of Lin County. 

    2013, Hongqi Canal Economic Development Zone upgraded into Red Flag Economic Development Zone of  National Level after the approval of State Council, and it is the 8th National Economic Development Zone approved by State Council.

    2015 is the 20th anniversary of Red Flag Canal.

    Hongqi Canal breed Red Flag Canal Spirit, many people sacrificed their life during the process of the construction of Hongqi Canal, and many of those sacrificed were yong men/women, and they overcome a tramendous amount of obstacles and difficulties before the victory of the construction of Hongqi Canal, it is the momument of national spirit, the signal of national culture, hard working, striving for success and cooperation spirit are all belongs to Hongqi Canal Spirit. it can inspires people to over obstacles and create miracles.

    1990, the head of Henan Province instructed Hongqi Canal become into a tourist area, to transfer spiritual wealth into Material wealth. 

    2002, Hongqi Canal was evaluated as 5A tourist area by Chinese government.

    2006, Hongqi Canal was listed the National Key Historical Protection Unit by the State Council.

    One more thing I have to say here: many movies has been made in Hongqi Canal and many movies about the Hongqi Canal has been made.

    In 20th Century, one famous French director came to Hongqi Canal and made a very famous Documantary Video about Red Flag Canal.

    Whatever, Hongqi Canal warmly welcome friends frome all over the world to have a look.

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    Xinmi Xianya, the county government agency, is located in the middle of the old urban area of Xinmi City, and Xinmi is affiliated with Zhengzhou, it stands at the southeastern area of Zhengzhou City.   

    Xinmi Xianya is the historic site under the protection of Henan province, it was firstly established at  AD-616(20 years after the foundation of Sui Dynasty), it has a long and deep history of more than 1400 years.    

    The architectural complex of Xinmi Xianya is 220M long from south to north, and 110 wide from east to west, and it covers a land of approximately 25,000 square meters.   

    From the gate at the south to the back garden at the north, we can see in sequence: entrance screen(a screen wall facing the gate of a yard),  the first door, the second door, Jieshi Fang, Yuetai, the court of law, the second hall, the thrid hall, Big fairy floor and the backyard garden, you can also see some other architectures at the flanks of these above buildings.   

    What I'd like to talk especially about is the Jail of Xinmi Xianya, the structure of the Jail is very complicated, it consists of outer jail, inner jail and women jail, and there is also a water jail and underground jail affiliated with the Jail of Xinmi Xianya, the Jail has been used more than 1400 years and is the jail which has been used for the longest time in China. Nowadays, the Jail has become a historic site.   

    There are also so many other stories and legends about Xinmi Xianya, if you're interested, might better come here and take a visit around it.    

    The content you see above is what I've written about Xinmi Xianya in 2012, and back then, Xinmi Xianya was the same appearance and the government didn't pay much attention on the repair of the old houses and palaces in Xinmi Xianya.

    But now, things changed, the government started the repair of Xinmi Xinya and the new Xinmi Xianya was open to public at the beginning of last year, you can see a lot more interesting spots in Xinmi Xianya right now if you come here.

    And you will certainly have a good chance to have a look at the famous Xianya Jail, which has been there for thousands of years. 

    I strongly recommend the friends from all over the world to come to Xinmi to have a look at the New Xinmi Xianya-Xinmi Ancient Government Office. You will have a fun day here.

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