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1、Huaqing Hot Spring is situated at the foot of Lishan Mt.,30 kilometers east of the city of Xian.Lishan is a branch of theQinling Mountain range.Historically,construction of the buildings in Huaqing Hot Spring was undertaken in Zhou,Qin,Han andTang Dynasties,with that in the Tang Dynasty as the most
2、flourishing.During the Tang Dynasty,Emperor Tai Zong ordered theconstruction of the hot springs palace;hence the present name Huaqing Hot Spring.The Huaqing Hot Spring was destroyedduring An Lushan and Shi Siming Rebellion at the end of the Tang Dynasty.The present site is only a small part of the o
3、riginalHuaqing palace.Today,when we get there,we can also see the relics of the Court of Eternal Youth which had been unearthed inrecent years and has been on display in a museum in the hot spring.The Court of the Eternal Youth is the very building wheremost of the romance between Emperor Xuan Zong
4、and his concubine Yang took place.Bai Juyi,a famous poet of the TangDynasty,made reference to this palace and the tragedy of the royal couple in his poem“Song of Everlasting Sorrow”.Attractions Inside Huaqing Hot SpringHuaqing pool which we see today was rebuilt on the site of the Qing Dynasty struc
5、ture.The palace covers an area of 85,560square meters.Entering the east gate of the Huaqing Hot Spring,you will see the Nine-Dragon Pool,the Frost Flying Hall and so on.Allthese structures were rebuilt in 1959 according to the Tang Dynasty architecture style.1 The Nine Dragon PoolThere is a legend a
6、bout this pool.It is said that the central Shaanxi Plain was once stricken by a severe drought.By theorder of Jade Emperor,an old dragon came with eight young ones,and made rain there.Yet when the disaster was just abating,the dragons lowered their guard and relaxed,and the drought became serious ag
7、ain.Jade Emperor became very angry at themand kept the young dragons under the jade causeway to make them spout clear water all day long.He had the old dragonconfined to the bottom of the Roaring Dragon Waterside Pavilion.Ladies and gentlemen,it is on the Nine Dragon Pool that the popular real-scene
8、 evening show-Song of Everlasting Sorrowis performed.The show is about the romantic but tragic love story between Emperor Xu Zong and Lady Yang The Frost Flying HallThe Tang Emperor Xuan Zong and his favorite concubine Yang used to make their home here.It was very cold in winter inChangan.So Emperor
9、 Xuan Zong always spent winter here.It was said that the steam from the hot spring pool in front of the hallwent straight up and turned into frost in the wind overhead.Therefore,the hall was named the Frost Flying Hall.The Xian IncidentClimb the steps east of the source of the hot springs,you will s
10、ee the Five Room Hall.The place is so called because itconsists of five rooms.During the World War Two,the Japanese invaded China and they had already occupied the threeprovinces in Northern China by 1936.This was a critical time for the Chinese nation.Jiang Kaishek,the China Nationalistsleader,was
11、reluctant to fight against the Japanese invaders because he thought the Chinese Communist Party was the mostdangerous enemy.During his stay in Huaqing Hot Spring in 1936,Jiang Kaishek stayed in the middle room of the Five RoomHall.His two generals,Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng tried to persuade hi
12、m to stop the civil war and fight against theJapanese invaders.However,Jiang Kaishek refused.So the two generals started the Xian Incident.On December 12,1936,the two generals ordered their soldiers surrounded the Hot Spring and caught Jiang Kaishek.In order to avoid a civil war and tryto establish
13、a national united front for the resistance against Japan,the Chinese Communist Party stood for a peacefulsettlement of the incident,and finally the incident was settled peacefully.The peaceful settlement of the incident put an end to theinternal war.Moreover.It showed that the co-operative relations
14、hip between the Communist and Nationalist arrived at a newstage.It thus has become an important turning point in modern Chinese history.The Remonstration PavilionClimbing the steps along the way,you will see a pavilion.It is the Remonstration Pavilion.The Source of the Hot SpringsThere are altogethe
15、r four hot springs inside the Site.The total volume of flow is more than 112 tons per hour.Thetemperature of these four springs is 43 or 109.The water contains nine sorts of minerals including limes,sodium carbonate,sodium sulphate and others.It is good for bathing,as well as for curing arthritis an
16、d some skin diseases.Huaqing Imperial Pool MuseumIn April 1982,on a construction site that was well under way,the ruins of the Imperial Pools in the Tang-Dynasty HuaqingPalace were discovered.After excavation and sorting out the information at hand,archaeologists found the ruins of the five poolsin
17、an area of 4,200 square meters.They proved them to be the Star Pool,the Lotus Flower Pool,the Crabapple Pool,the CrownPrince Pool and the Shangshi Pool,all of which were recorded in history.The Museum of the Imperial Pools in the Tang-DynastyHuaqing Palace was built on their ruins and was opened to
18、public in October 1990.“The Crabapple Pool”was specially built bythe order of Emperor Xuan Zong for his favorite lady Yang Yuhuan to bathe in.Therefore,it was also called Lady Yangs Pool.The Lotus Flower pool,also named the Imperial Nine Dragon Pool,was built for the emperor;the Crown Prince Pool,as
19、 itsname suggests,was for the crown prince;the Shangshi Pool was for ministers and officials;while the Star Pool was believed tobe built of much earlier age.The Beacon TowerOn the top of Mt.Li is the Beacon Tower.Beacon Tower was mostly built at the top of the mountain to give alarm in ancient2times
20、.It is said that in the Western Zhou Dynasty,on the peak of every mountain there was a beacon tower.Whenever theenemy came,the soldiers would make signals by burning wolfs droppings to seek help from other vassal states.Why werewolfs droppings used?It is said that when wolfs droppings were burned,th
21、eir smoke went straight up to the sky,and peoplecould see it from a long way off.Ok,ladies and gentlemen,after the sightseeing,dont forget to watch the Song of Everlasting Sorrow Evening Show.It is puton between 8:20PM and 9:30PM from April to October.Dont miss this performance if you so happen to be visiting Xian.3