I always wondered where they filmed those Chinese history movies with those massive Palaces, they always seemed too well made and fleshed out to be your typical façade sets or CGI used in most western historic movies. But I also knew that the truly massive Palaces built from the Qin to Yuan Dynasties 300bc-1300AD; were virtually all burnt down and raided to nothing by invaders. Pity as many of them were far larger and grander than even the Forbidden city. Thank you for your informative video, looks like a great visit.
On summer nights, there will be a night market in Tang City, which is very worth visiting and is completely different from the experience during the day.
Spot on with the similarities with Kyoto - what you are visiting is one of the Xian palaces, of antiquity -this one I think is a section of the Daming. Over the years they had complexes 3x, 5.5x and 7x bigger than current world record-holder, the Forbidden City -the last one was known as the Endless Palace and built by China's only official female Emperor, Wu Zetian to beat all the male ones before and after in scale (there have been 4 other female premier rulers after her, just not with the moniker of Emperor, only Empress while the Emperor was usurped by her laws into a lesser, ceremonial role, or 20th Century President). She's buried in a 1000ft tall tomb, once the fabled White Pyramid faced with white stone and crowned with jewels, that was really a natural hill carved and built over. It's now a pyramidal hill planted over with lines of trees in the 20th Century to disguise it from tomb robbers. Anyhoo, this was an an era that directly influenced ancient Japan at the time, from the kimono to martial arts, religion to urban planning, to of course the architecture of the time. Recently they have started rebuilding the Old Summer Palace in Hengdian (another city with the world's largest movie sets), which is highly controversial with Beijing. The Old Summer Palace in Beijing was destroyed by Western troops and was another complex larger than the Forbidden City, built in the world's largest gardens of hundreds of pavilions and villas on manmade lakes (some of them in Western styles). They were left in ruins as a lesson in history, but now they're being rebuilt a thousand miles away and is very contentious with China's historians -the first phase has already become the world's most expensive building complex, costing billions.
However the actual daming palace was long burnt to the ground along with old city of chang’an. The modern xi’an has no connection with Chang’an. It was a establishment built on chang’an ruins. Not a single bit of culture and language was inherited
Also interesting is the quality of these 'film sets' -such was the inexpense of labour until 2015 they could afford to build these accurately and with the real materials, and intricacy of the originals.
Weiyang palace of Han dynasty must be rebuild. Epang palace of the Qin Dynasty must also be rebuild and all ancient Chinese dynasty must also be rebuild.
I always wondered where they filmed those Chinese history movies with those massive Palaces, they always seemed too well made and fleshed out to be your typical façade sets or CGI used in most western historic movies. But I also knew that the truly massive Palaces built from the Qin to Yuan Dynasties 300bc-1300AD; were virtually all burnt down and raided to nothing by invaders. Pity as many of them were far larger and grander than even the Forbidden city. Thank you for your informative video, looks like a great visit.
I really want to visit this place 😍🇩🇿🥀👘🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
I enjoyed this, thanks
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On summer nights, there will be a night market in Tang City, which is very worth visiting and is completely different from the experience during the day.
i want to visit xiangyang one day
Spot on with the similarities with Kyoto - what you are visiting is one of the Xian palaces, of antiquity -this one I think is a section of the Daming. Over the years they had complexes 3x, 5.5x and 7x bigger than current world record-holder, the Forbidden City -the last one was known as the Endless Palace and built by China's only official female Emperor, Wu Zetian to beat all the male ones before and after in scale (there have been 4 other female premier rulers after her, just not with the moniker of Emperor, only Empress while the Emperor was usurped by her laws into a lesser, ceremonial role, or 20th Century President). She's buried in a 1000ft tall tomb, once the fabled White Pyramid faced with white stone and crowned with jewels, that was really a natural hill carved and built over. It's now a pyramidal hill planted over with lines of trees in the 20th Century to disguise it from tomb robbers.
Anyhoo, this was an an era that directly influenced ancient Japan at the time, from the kimono to martial arts, religion to urban planning, to of course the architecture of the time. Recently they have started rebuilding the Old Summer Palace in Hengdian (another city with the world's largest movie sets), which is highly controversial with Beijing. The Old Summer Palace in Beijing was destroyed by Western troops and was another complex larger than the Forbidden City, built in the world's largest gardens of hundreds of pavilions and villas on manmade lakes (some of them in Western styles). They were left in ruins as a lesson in history, but now they're being rebuilt a thousand miles away and is very contentious with China's historians -the first phase has already become the world's most expensive building complex, costing billions.
Predecessor of the kimono was the traditional dress of the Wu Chinese people, as the provinces of wu Chinese were closest to japan
However the actual daming palace was long burnt to the ground along with old city of chang’an. The modern xi’an has no connection with Chang’an. It was a establishment built on chang’an ruins. Not a single bit of culture and language was inherited
Beautiful
Also interesting is the quality of these 'film sets' -such was the inexpense of labour until 2015 they could afford to build these accurately and with the real materials, and intricacy of the originals.
The Disney movie Mulan was actually filmed here
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Weiyang palace of Han dynasty must be rebuild. Epang palace of the Qin Dynasty must also be rebuild and all ancient Chinese dynasty must also be rebuild.