#xi’an

[53v3nfrn5]

Xi’an Garden Hotel Matches (1982)

#xi’an #china #chinese #matches #aesthetic #1982 #80s #80s china #cottagecore #vintage #retro #vintage china

[blueiskewl]

2,000-Year-Old Giant Panda Skeleton Unearthed in Grave of Chinese Emperor

While excavating the tomb of an ancient Chinese emperor, archaeologists unearthed the skeleton of a giant panda, officials said.

The skeleton, which was in good condition, dates back around 2,000 years, according to an Aug. 2 news release from the Chinese Archaeology Network.

The tomb it was found in belonged to Emperor Wen, a ruler in the Han Dynasty who lived from 202 B.C. to 157 B.C, according to the British Museum.

Wen was “singular in many respects,” according to a 2018 study published in the journal Archaeological Research in Asia. “He is known for the reform of the empire, and for his ‘frugality’ and concern for his people.”

And unlike many other emperors, he declined to build a “burial mound,” instead opting to construct his tomb inside of a mountain, according to the study.

Inside this tomb — located in Xi’an, a city in central China — archaeologists uncovered an animal sacrifice pit, which housed the panda bones.

In Han Dynasty China, like many other ancient societies, the dead were buried with many material goods, so they could be enjoyed in the afterlife, officials said.

Animals, including the panda, would have been entombed as part of an underground royal garden for the dead.

Additionally, the internment of animal bones was used to display power and wealth.

The panda has long held a unique place in Chinese culture, according to the Chinese Consulate in Calgary. The black-and-white animals traditionally symbolized peace and were once believed to have medicinal powers.

#2000-Year-Old Giant Panda Skeleton Unearthed in Grave of Chinese Emperor #China #Xi’an #Emperor Wen #Han Dynasty #ancient tomb #ancient grave #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient china #chinese history #chinese emperor

[dindjarindiaries]

I get jealous thinking of the weird relationship Xi’an had with Din and how he greets her when he sees her for the first time since leaving :/

No literally bc why was he staring at her like that the entire episode. I need to know more

#i feel like I’m left out of an inside joke whenever those two interact #din djarin #xi’an #the mandalorian #you have spoken

[banthaboyboba]

#The Mandalorian #Star Wars #shipping poll #ship war #shipping discourse #din djarin #boba fett #Luke Skywalker #cob Vanth #Cara dune #Miggs mayfeld #fennec Shand #bo katan kryze #Bo katan #paz vizla #Omera #xi’an #poll #polls #Mandalorian #Disney+ #dating game #mandalorians #shipping

[thats-it-im-fallingdown]

Here are some Star Wars characters I personally headcanon as intersex, because I’m intersex and I think that endosex (dyadic/perisex/not intersex) people have gotten away with ignoring us for too long!

No name, and commonly headcanoned as intersex trans. That’s totally cool and perfectly fine, but I’m saddened that him being intersex was never even considered by most of the fandom. He has ear cones, which have previously been a secondary sex characteristic associated with female twileks. Personally, my own experiences have led me to believe that being intersex isn’t neatly compatible with being cis or trans, but that’s just my opinion. He could be trans and intersex!

Xi’an. A lot of people didn’t like her. Maybe because she’s a Harley Quinn type of character, and that’s not everybody’s cup of tea. Maybe because it’s implied she slept with djarin and a bunch of the fandom wishes they could sleep with him themselves. Those people are entitled to their opinions, as I’m entitled to mine: I love basically all female characters, and xi’an is no exception. She stabs people? Good for her. I headcanon her as intersex for basically the same reason as for the unnamed Twi’lek above, but reversed: no ear cones, and forehead ridges that have previously been established to be male secondary sex characteristics.

Omega, from the bad batch (which I haven’t actually watched yet, just read about it). Has the most canon evidence to back her up, since she’s a clone of Jango fett, presumably having the same set of genes. Swyer syndrome is when a natal female has XY chromosomes. It’s caused by the sry gene of the baby not being activated during pregnancy (or incubation in omega’s case), so the baby doesn’t form male reproductive organs. With the exception of the gonads (ovaries, testes), girls with swyer syndrome are anatomically indistinguishable from an endosex girl. Hormones are administered so puberty happens normally (along with preventing other health problems that come from not producing adult amounts of hormones). Women with swyer syndrome can even get pregnant and give birth with an egg donation. Alright, explanation over!

Barriss Offee. Why, you ask? She was treated unfairly by the writers and deserved better. Many intersex people can relate to deserving better treatment and not getting it! Actually, i headcanon her as intersex because I like her. There’s no evidence for it in canon, I just like her and have decided she is an intersex lesbian just like me.

Thanks for reading this far!

#xi’an #xian #Star Wars #the book of boba fett #tbobf #the mandalorian #din djarin #the bad batch #tbb #omega #tbb omega #barriss offee #barriss deserved better #star wars clone wars #star wars tcw #text #intersex #actually intersex #intersex positivity

[haveyoubeentothiscity]

Population: 12,952,907

Note that Xi’an is also sometimes romanized as Hsi-an.

#city poll #xian #Xi’an #hsi-an #shaanxi #china #Asia #submitted #population

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

funniest thing i found out in xi’an is that everyone has been aggressively and persistently deadnaming the city of xi’an.

“yeah we recognise that the ming dynasty has made a decision but given that it was a stupid ass decision we have elected to ignore it.”

#wtf is a “western peace”?????? #“everlasting peace” is an objectively superior name and everyone knows it. the poets. the noodle stalls. everyone. #xi’an #chang’an #Chinese history #gtc

[ancientorigins]

Piecing together the puzzle of thousands of stone armor artifacts found in Xi’an, experts have filled a gap in the story of the life and times of First Qin Dynasty Emperor, Qin Shi Huang.

#armor #China #Qin Shi Huang #terracotta army #Xi’an #ancient #history #ancient origins

[endlessnine09]

Bengbu, Xi’an, Chengdu.

Xixi being the face of tourism industry is so amazing 👏 driving the cultural output 💜

#罗云熙 #luo yunxi #bengbu #xi’an #Chengdu

[maul-antics]

The Mandalorian (2022) Cover

#din djarin #the mandalorian #migs mayfeld #burg #xi’an #the mandalorian comic #star wars #marvel #marvel comics

[aventurasdeunatortuga]

Xi’an

It’s already time for my last post from China for this trip.

I’ve been in Xi’an the last few days, in the province of Shaanxi in central China. Xi’an is an enormous city, nowhere near the size of Beijing or Shanghai but definitely a huge city. It is very very hot and dry here. For whatever reason the UV rays are also extremely intense here, every day the weather app has had a warning for extreme UV rays. It really feels like the sun is like a laser whenever you stand directly in it. Definitely missing the coolness of Lijiang now.

Xi’an is hot, fast paced, and very crowded. Everyone is constantly on the move and there are always way more people or vehicles than you ever would have thought possible in any given space. Even to cross the street you had to go into an enormous system of underground tunnels to avoid the traffic in the road, because the traffic never stops.

I think I’ve really been coming to grips with the fact that lack of personal space is a cultural thing here. People have no qualms about pushing, shoving, cutting in line, elbowing, etc. It’s nothing personal, it’s just how things are done here. You really have to stand firm and be assertive when you move or you’re never gonna get anywhere.

The hotel I’m at is a nice oasis from all of this. It’s very serene and my room has Japanese style tatami mats with all the furniture directly on the floor and a Japanese smart toilet which is super fancy. I spent Monday evening and most of Tuesday in my room because traveling at the end of a long trip is exhausting, especially in the heat, and I’ve still got about a week to go. The staff at my hotel is really nice and they even helped me order delivery food Monday night because I wasn’t up to going out to look for something to eat.

On Tuesday evening I ventured out a bit in the evening after it had cooled off. I’ve noticed in general in China things tend to stay open pretty late and the liveliest time of day is between 7pm-11pm, the streets will be very busy and lots will be going on. Even families and young kids will be out and about. I walked by a giant shopping mall and the bell tower and drum tower and ended up on the street referred to here as “Muslim Street”. Xi’an was for a long time a stopover on the Silk Road and there is a large population of Chinese Muslims in Xi’an which in turn has influenced a lot of their typical dishes. There is a large concentration of restaurants run by Chinese Muslims on this street and it has become a very popular walking street and a place for street food. I knew about this street but didn’t realize I had stumbled upon it on Tuesday and was blown away by the sheer size of the crowds there. Almost equivalent to the density of the crowds in Fenghuang but the street itself was enormous and yet still very crowded. I went in a few shops and noticed that every time I went in a shop I was surreptitiously followed the entire time by an employee who was pretending not to be following me around. This happened several times in several different shops so I don’t know if it was because they thought I was stealing or because as the only foreigner they thought I wouldn’t understand what to do and would have questions but it was a weird experience.

I ate a gigantic spiral cut potato on a stick and pomegranate juice and then hid in the dairy aisle of the 7/11 to escape the heat and humidity.

On Wednesday I geared up to go see the Terracotta Warriors. These were made for the Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, upon his death in 209 BCE. He believed that if he constructed terracotta versions of his army and horses to keep in his mausoleum he could bring them with him to protect him after death. They were only recently uncovered in the 70s and are still in the process of being excavated because there are so many thousands of them.

I took a shuttle bus from Xi’an about 86 kilometers outside the city to the archeological site. The site sells 3,000 tickets per hour, so you can imagine how crowded it gets. The site is organized into 3 areas called pits. Pit 1 is the largest area. The crowd there was one of the largest I have ever experienced. I’ve only been afraid of being trampled once before, at a music festival in Guanajuato, Mexico. This crowd felt similar to that. I couldn’t control where my body was going, the crowd just kind of pushed me wherever I ended up going. It was all I could do to stay on my feet, let alone see anything. I ended up going out the emergency exit in a panic and then sat on the curb for about 40 minutes to recover. Then I pulled myself together and went to the smaller pits to try and see some things. It did somehow get slightly less crowded throughout the day, but it was still very packed. I managed to see all three pits and even went back to the first one again because I really did want to see everything.

It was very complicated to get back to Xi’an afterwards and so hot. I couldn’t figure out where the shuttle bus was so I had to take public transportation which took about 2.5 hours total to get back to town. Long story short, I was glad to see the terracotta warriors but my goodness was it exhausting.

I found a Starbucks inside a giant mall back in Xi’an to try and recuperate once I got back to town before walking back to my hotel. One thing I love about Asia is the malls. They are generally enormous and have just about everything you can possibly think of, like a small city, but its all air conditioned. I was at the mall for a while and was going to look for something to eat but I was so exhausted and didn’t have the brainpower to figure out how to look for somewhere to eat and translate the menu and order in Chinese; so I went to the McDonald’s purely because they have computerized ordering systems in English where you just click on what you want and scan a QR code to pay and you don’t have to talk to anyone.

Thursday was my last full day in China. I am definitely noticing how exhausted I am. I stayed in bed for most of the morning and ventured out briefly to visit a park at Wild Goose Pagoda and the Xi’an Museum. It ended up being way too hot and crowded and the museum itself was kind of underwhelming, I’m not much of a museum person to begin with and since I couldn’t read any of the signs and don’t know much about the local history it didn’t mean much to me although I’m sure if I knew more it would be really interesting.

I sat on the ground in the museum lobby for 45 minutes to recover from the heat and crowds and went back to my hotel until the evening. I wanted to end my time in China on a positive note despite how cranky I’ve been lately, I had to tried to book a walking tour but couldn’t because I was only one person and there weren’t any other foreigners signing up for tours. I eventually found a place that was offering dinner and a show at a hotel nearby and signed up for it just to get out a bit.

I didn’t understand anything that was going on in the show but it was showing the life of a famous Empress of the Tang Dynasty that was based in Xi’an and had a lot of traditional dancing and music. Xi’an is well known for its dumplings and I got to try a sampler of a dozen different kinds of dumplings which were really good. I ended up being seated next to the only other foreigner, a guy named Stefano from Italy who had just arrived in China that day. He was equally as confused about everything as I was but it was nice to have someone to talk to. He said that apparently this dinner show thing used to only offer shows for foreigners, then they opened it up for Chinese residents as well and it was about 40% foreigners and 60% Chinese people. Post-covid it is now less than 1% foreigners who attend tourist geared things.

Afterwards since it was cooler out I went and saw the old city wall and walked around in the park for a while, then I went back to Muslim street and got some 肉加缪 (roujiamou) a lamb based Chinese version of a hamburger that is a famous street food in Xi’an. I walked back to my hotel and made it just before a huge lightning storm that caused a power outage. It was literally like lightning multiple times a minute for over an hour, it was wild. I ate my food in the dark and reflected on this wild trip.

China has been fascinating. Traveling China mostly alone post-covid has been another level of travel. It has been at once very humbling and very empowering. While it was very difficult to figure out how things worked and to communicate, China is incredibly safe, well organized, and people are incredibly kind. I never once felt in danger during this trip which says a lot. It’s been a real shock feeling like such an outsider all the time for the last month. I have such a deep newfound respect for anyone who immigrates somewhere completely different from their home country, without knowing anyone and without knowing the language or culture. Being on vacation here has been hard enough as an outsider even with all the privilege I have as a white English speaking American.

Going several days at a time not talking to anyone while simultaneously being constantly surrounded by crowds and being stared and pointed at everywhere I go has been such a strange experience, but very eye opening. I’m glad to have had this experience and even though this entire trip was traveling on “hard mode” I feel sad to be leaving right when I feel like I’m starting to figure things out. China has been unlike anywhere else I’ve been before and despite being here a month I’ve barely scratched the surface. I’ll definitely be back.

I’m doing a quick 2.5 day stop in Seoul before heading home, will update again before leaving.

Until then,

#travel #solo travel #asia #china #xi’an #terracotta warriors

[yubinniu]

I ❤️ Xi’an

#fireworks #Xi’an #Lantern Festival

[highsummonertemptress]

Xi’an BiangBiang Noodle's Handmade traditional pork burger and Hand-pulled Belt noodles with cumin lamb

#Xi’an #biang biang noodles #lamb #food #noodles #cumin lamb #pork burger #Chinese food #London #covent garden #food photography #foodie #handmade

[dindjarindiaries]

Underrated hilarious character is xian tbh. In love with how Natalia tena just 1000% committed to the bit. The scream she lets out when they find out he escaped. The “he didn’t even give us a proper countdown. 🐍!” So fuckin good

Ohhhh yeah, she COMMITTED! Love her lowkey!!!

#the fact her character is hateable means she SUCCEEDED!!!!! #xi’an #the mandalorian #you have spoken

[qianapang]

#night #night view #china #xi’an #lantern #landscapes #photography

[ytcomments-archive]

#panda #youtube comments #brown panda #xi’an #QingLing mountains #magestic creatures