Xi'an as any Chinese city, has much to offer even after dark, if only because of the beautiful illuminations. Especially around the city center bell and drum tower is beautifully illuminated, and although not on such a scale as. such as Shanghai, by the fact that the architecture in Xi'an is either old, or modeled on the (center of the city - also modern buildings - echo the style of Chinese architecture from the time of greatest splendor of the country and city, ie the Tang Dynasty in AD 唐朝 7-10) atmosphere of the place is special. By the way
interesting is a country in which the notorious lack of electricity, where electricity is a distant province of only a few hours a day, and at the same time is wasted huge amounts of it so that cities that look nicer and more attractive in the evening. But what is not done in the name of tourism - and no doubt many of Xi'an on tourism gains.
The entire effect is particularly evident in my favorite neighborhood Muslim 回 坊, where at dusk every booth, every shop, every soup-kitchen are lit, A further additional effects of fire in the furnaces, glowing embers in the grill, Fire Plume Ridge from the soup kitchen.
Below are some pictures in a little bigger than usual format (opening up when you click):
city center - is composed of elements of the architecture of the Tang Dynasty (AD 7-10), when Xi'an (then called Chang'an 长安- "Eternal peace" - Xi'an current name means "Knowing the West") was the capital of the country, and China experienced perhaps the biggest period of prosperity in its history when the silk route between China and Arab countries traveled hundreds of caravans, when in Xi'an lived thousands of foreigners, women were playing polo and ideal of beauty was not frail anorexic, but the corpulent painted doll ...
interesting is a country in which the notorious lack of electricity, where electricity is a distant province of only a few hours a day, and at the same time is wasted huge amounts of it so that cities that look nicer and more attractive in the evening. But what is not done in the name of tourism - and no doubt many of Xi'an on tourism gains.
The entire effect is particularly evident in my favorite neighborhood Muslim 回 坊, where at dusk every booth, every shop, every soup-kitchen are lit, A further additional effects of fire in the furnaces, glowing embers in the grill, Fire Plume Ridge from the soup kitchen.
Below are some pictures in a little bigger than usual format (opening up when you click):
city center - is composed of elements of the architecture of the Tang Dynasty (AD 7-10), when Xi'an (then called Chang'an 长安- "Eternal peace" - Xi'an current name means "Knowing the West") was the capital of the country, and China experienced perhaps the biggest period of prosperity in its history when the silk route between China and Arab countries traveled hundreds of caravans, when in Xi'an lived thousands of foreigners, women were playing polo and ideal of beauty was not frail anorexic, but the corpulent painted doll ...
钟楼 Bell Tower - a building, who know all the tourists, as she is in the heart of the city, and beside it is the oldest open to foreign tourists Bell Tower Hotel (foreigners can live in China only in selected hotels 涉外 宾馆, now almost all but a dozen years ago was the relatively few). Tower - the largest such structure in China - now stands at the intersection of two major roads in the city center (the part surrounded by walls); built in 1384, is 36 meters high, and it hangs inside of a giant, 5-ton bell. The tower originally stood opposite the Tower Drum (where the middle of the city was located before the advent of the Ming Dynasty 明朝 - ie before 1368), but in 1582 I was moved to its current location. Inside the tower hangs a bell weighing five tons - were cast him in the end of the fifteenth century, the bell was bigger earlier - weighed more tone and made it to the early 8th century. Apparently Bell Tower after moving to a new location the old Bell lost his voice and needed a new bell was hanging.
Tiger Pillows - Tiger motif decorates August in China, also part of clothing or equipment used by small children. The aim is to deter bad power. Approach this from a distance and smile indulgently, seeing Little Ones in Chinese tiger hats or Tiger 虎 帽 Butkach 虎 鞋, but during his stay in the house master's son noticed the tiny altar. Curious, I started it to researchers and specialists - Fangfang told me that he was an altar in the family for many generations - and I noticed a strange gun lying before him. As it turned out it was a tiger bone, which the master had brought from Singapore (the killing of tigers in the PRC is severely punished, even though it was once widespread dealings with the specific properties wgledu their bones - I have written about this before). Fangfang explained that if you give Apparently sniff dog or wolf tiger bone powder, it'll take it under her tail and flee in fear - Such is the strength of the same bone. Hence, the shrine had a bone to deter bad just under the house. On the other hand near the altar lay a dog owner, and somehow did not show fear, no but maybe because he was your, and not possessed by the evil powers ...
kebabs Ram 羊肉 串 - the trade in them is dominated by Uighurs, even in the Muslim quarter in Xi'an, inhabited mainly by the Hui nationality 回族, can meet-selling skewers of Uighurs. This colorful nation, their loud calls, jokes and laughter bluff are a nice accent among the more expressive or emotional little Chinese people.
甘蔗 Sugarcane is a natural and healthy delicacy. You can buy it in most markets, fruit and vegetable in China, often also on the street. Served either in the form of 40-50cm pieces, peeled, hard, purple color of bark - then it bites off pieces of August, bites in the mouth, sucking the juice, then spits out the rest dry. Another way - for the lazy and those with poor teeth - is squeezed juice drinks (like in the photo) with a juicer. NB my dentist says that because the Chinese have nice teeth, I eat a lot of raw or half-raw, hard vegetables, also bite the umor pits (sometimes these can be noted from cesciowo threadbare front incisors, already the seeds). The dentist claimed that the worst order - which has encountered in his practice - in May the Japanese (but why) and Germany (known sauerkraut ...)
week course can not miss your favorite Paomo - one of the two famous - except the ravioli Jiaozi - Food Xi'anu:
and restaurants have plenty of soup kitchen clients, the fire crackled in the furnaces. Kitchener Chinese vegetables are fried in so-called. Wokach ( Guo 锅, briefly but the deep oil. Vegetables are sprayed, partially fried, partially cooked, but at the same time retain their nutritional value, and vitamins. Chinese people do not eat salads practically, they think that eating raw vegetables is unhygienic. When cooking oil, often deals with the fire, which gives additional light effects. Unfortunately, in connection with this way of cooking food in Chinese homes often far from the ideal of purity - not only the stove, but the walls are covered with a thin film inches of oil, whose glued to the dirt. Hence, if you want to rent an apartment, pay close attention to the kitchen - they are the most often - next to the bathrooms - the weakest link in its entirety.
About Chinese noodles we could write a whole book. There are dozens of them kinds - Trailed napopularniejszy is pasta (I think they should still call it) Lanzhou Lanzhou La Mian 拉面 兰州 - the cake is so mined 活 面 (this requires effort and time) that is very malleable and does not tear when stretched; pulls So do you eat first to draw arms on the sides, then consists in half, stretch again, and so a dozen times, until the pasta becomes a suitably thin. Another type of pasta is cut with a knife Dao Xiao Mian 刀削面. A large piece of dough urobionego chef keeps in one hand and the other a sharp cleaver (Chinese people prefer a cleaver and uses it for cutting knife as we do) cuts of the vats of boiling 10cm strips of pasta water, which after cutting, fall into the boiling water. What's bigger "artists" I have set the cake on his head, then cut down with his two hands pasta, in which you hold fast choppers.
Other interesting types of pasta, a Cat's Ears 猫耳朵 and "pimples" 搓 疙瘩. It's getting them, based on a small lump of dough and use your thumb to "rubbing," I am in the second hand. Noodles wrapped in August on the shape of cat ears or flat spirals. NB Chinese claim that they were the first with pasta and Italians learned to make their art on the Marco Polo ...
easiest and least time consuming way to make pasta, then squeezing it (picture cottage industry "squeezer" was the previous entry) 压 面, so is the pasta is getting on an industrial scale.
When it comes to the same cooking, boil the pasta and you can enter it in the soup with vegetables or meat - it is called then it 汤面 noodles in soup. It can also fry 炒面. Alternatively it can be cooked then drain, put into a bowl, then add the separately prepared "butter" 卤面, such as eggs and tomatoes. For each of these modes you can add an acute paste, vinegar or soy sauce. Two provinces, famous for its pasta is 陕西 Shaanxi and Shanxi 山西. The latter is known for its production of wine vinegar 陈醋, which added to many dishes, too, of course pasta. Apparently because the water in Shanxi is alkaline, and health need to be to eat large amounts of vinegar.
Pasta them chopsticks, which requires certain skills, what else can draw the long strands of pasta with two poles. To be able to eat our noodles in this way must be good "string" - such as pasta literally sucks. Hence the Chinese pub with pasta is filled with the sounds of such a literal "pulling" and siorbania. TERMINALS pasta Niewprawnym people will be "danced" and uswinia clothes completely, so you better give up the pasta when it is officially dressed. Shaanxi Province
(which is already the capital of Xi'an) is famous for its beautiful cut-outs. Women in rural areas, when winter comes and there is no field work, sit at home (a typical house are the types of dugouts carved into a yellow 窑洞 Lessi) on heated beds Kang 炕 (this is basically the type of furnace, as in our old tenements stoves, but It is flat and serves as a bed) and with scissors cut intricate cutouts. These cutouts amazing precision and artistic skill, mostly from the red color, were stuck on the doors of homes for decoration and to deter evil spirits. Until today I enjoy them very popular and orginalna souvenir from a trip to Shaanxi.
Drum Tower 鼓楼 stands at the entrance to the Muslim quarter. Built in 1380, was originally located in the giant drum, whose sound proclaim the changes worth (Chinese people shared a day for 12 worth - a two-hour periods). Drum has not survived to our time, but the remaining tower. Because
drum sound is not too loud, from 5 to ne bells started to be used (apparently sound dwonu in Beijing, he carried a distance 25km!), Which pretended to time during the day, while the drums - at night.
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