It is said that Chinese history like a wild glorious tree which the foot rooted in Xi’an and the branch grew in Beijing. So you can see the deeply Chinese history and culture has bored and developed in the old city of Xi’an.
With the Thirteen Dynasty backdrop of Chinese history, Xi’an has its own traditional, historical and cultural feature and heritage spots. In other word the Chinese history marrow is taking on the heritage spots in Xi’an. If you want to learn more about Chinese history and culture, it’s far away within reading the books. Because you can’t link the knowledge from the books to the real history spots very well ,especially for the foreigners. You’d better to learn the literature from the guide’ explanation while enjoying the heritage spots personally.
The guide can connect the history spots with the situation, and explain clearly and vividly in order to make every tourists understood. For example, if you have a tour to Terracotta Warriors, maybe you got ready a lot of materials to this trip, but you’ll feel it’s not enough. You can’t find the answers why some of the terracotta warriors are standing, and some of them are on theirs knees. If you only have a look on them, you can’t appreciate the artistic value and the historical value of the terracotta warriors. It’s very important to look around the pits in orders at the Exhibition Hall.
The guide will lead you in a reasonable order and let you know more details you’ve never know them. As a result, you may just look at on terracotta people one by one while you don’t have the guide. For instance When you are walking on the tomb passage of the Royal or regality, you may just looking the old and beautiful paintings on the wall, but you don’t know how to appreciate the old people in the pictures.
If you have the guide, he or she will tell you what you should take more appoint to, why the look of the people in the painting are sad or small, why the painter made the people too fat, and why their finery like that and so on.
What’s more while you stop at the epitaph which is written in Chinese characters of olden times, you can hardly understand it, if the guide here, you won’t have any problem. In a word , these are just some strength if the guide services for you during your traveling.
-----by Peter Jia, manager from
chinauniquetour