Tourist Guide and Food Guide of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
Tourist Guide of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
Introduction of the Attractions
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda is located in the Ci’en Temple in the south of Xi’an City, also known as the “Ci’en Temple Pagoda”. It is the earliest and largest existing square pavilion-style brick pagoda of the Tang Dynasty, with a simple and ancient shape and a magnificent momentum. Climbing to the top of the pagoda, you can overlook the beautiful scenery of the entire Xi’an urban area and feel the unique charm of this ancient city. There are also a large number of cultural relics, Buddha statues, etc. inside the pagoda, which have extremely high artistic and historical value.
Ci’en Temple
As the location of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, Ci’en Temple is the ancestral court of the Faxiang (Dharmalaksana) school of Chinese Buddhism. The architectural scale of the temple is grand, the layout is rigorous, and the halls and Buddha statues in the temple are solemn and solemn, with a strong incense. Here, tourists can feel the strong Buddhist cultural atmosphere and appreciate the exquisite Buddhist architecture and art.
Recommended Tourist Routes
After entering the Ci’en Temple, first visit the mountain gate, bell tower, drum tower and other buildings to experience the overall atmosphere of the temple.
Then go to the Mahavira Hall to pay respects to the Buddha statues and understand Buddhist culture.
After that, come to the foot of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda and you can choose to buy a ticket to climb the pagoda and enjoy the surrounding scenery.
After visiting the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, stroll around the temple and appreciate cultural relics such as inscriptions and murals.
Tickets and Opening Hours
Tickets
The ticket price of Ci’en Temple is 40 yuan per person, and an additional ticket of 30 yuan per person is required to climb the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda.
Features: The bun is crispy and the meat is fragrant. It uses lazhi meat (cured meat in sauce), which is stewed very soft and rotten, with rich meat juice. Wrapped in a freshly baked baijimo (a kind of flatbread), taking a bite, the bun absorbs the mellow flavor of the meat juice, and the meat also reduces the greasy feeling because of the bun, and the taste is excellent.
Yangrou Paomo (Pita Bread Soaked in Lamb Soup)
Recommended Restaurant: Laosunjia Restaurant
Features: It is carefully cooked with rich ingredients and strong flavor. The meat is rotten, the soup is thick, fatty but not greasy, nutritious, and fragrant, which is very appetizing. When eating, you need to break the pita bread into small pieces by yourself, the smaller the better, and then give it to the chef to cook, so that the pita bread can fully absorb the flavor of the soup.
Biangbiang Noodles
Recommended Restaurant: Xue Changli Liangpi
Features: The noodles are wide and thick with a chewy texture, shaped like a belt, so it is also called “belt noodles”. It is paired with various seasonings, sauces and vegetables, such as tomato and egg, meat sauce, and youpo chili oil, etc. After stirring evenly, each noodle is covered with sauce, and it tastes spicy and delicious.
Special Snacks
Liangpi (Cold Rice Noodles)
Recommended Restaurant: Wei Jia Liangpi
Features: There are various types such as sesame paste liangpi and Qinzhen liangpi. The sesame paste liangpi has a soft and glutinous taste with a strong sesame paste flavor; while the Qinzhen liangpi mainly uses chili oil and vinegar as seasonings, with a sour and spicy taste, and the liangpi is chewy and elastic.
Zenggao (a kind of steamed glutinous rice cake)
Recommended Restaurant: Southeast Asia Zenggao
Features: It is made by steaming glutinous rice, red dates or honey dates. It has a bright color, is soft, sticky and fragrant, with a mellow taste. The upper layer has the sweetness of red dates, and the lower layer has the soft and glutinous texture of glutinous rice. The combination of the two complements each other, and it is a special snack not to be missed.
Surrounding Attractions
Datang Everbright City
It is very close to the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda and can be reached on foot. Here, with the culture of the prosperous Tang Dynasty as the background, a pedestrian street integrating shopping, catering, entertainment, leisure, tourism and business has been built. The lights are bright at night, with various Tang-style buildings, sculptures, performing arts activities, etc., such as the performance of the “tumbler girl”, which is very lively.
Shaanxi History Museum
You can quickly reach it by bus or taxi from the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda. There are a large number of cultural relics in the museum with a wide variety, showing the long history and culture of the Shaanxi region, including Shang and Zhou bronzes, Qin and Han terracotta figurines, Tang Dynasty gold and silver wares, etc. It is a good place to understand ancient Chinese history and culture.
