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Exploring World Cultural Heritage Sites Part 19_The Flower of the Silk Road, Xi'an - The starting point and end point of the Silk Road that connected the civilizations of the East and the West, Xi'an - The capital of China for 1,100 years from the Qin to the Tang Dynasties - The world's largest international city with a population of 1 million during the Tang Dynasty - The Xi'an City Wall, 13.6 km long and 12 m high, was built over 9 years during the reign of the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty - The Tang Dynasty's great monk Tripitaka also brought Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist statues from India along the Silk Road - The monk stayed at the Daan Pagoda, translated Buddhist scriptures, and left behind 'Journey to the West' - The Muslim Hui people who settled along the Silk Road, their collective village, Hui Street - An Islamic temple following the Chinese architectural style, Qingjindaesa Temple - When the An Lushan Rebellion broke out in the 8th century, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty requested reinforcements from the Western Regions and dispatched Islamic forces - After the rebellion was suppressed, a large number of the dispatched troops remained in Xi'an, forming the first generation of the Hui people - After unifying China, they built the Great Wall Emperor Qin Shi Huang - his tomb was shrouded in mystery for a long time - revealed in 1974 when a farmer discovered a fragment while digging a well - 700,000 people were mobilized to build the 76-meter-long tomb - soldiers made of earth 5 meters deep. Estimated to be around 6,000, only 2,000 have been excavated so far - Terracotta Army Pit, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 - Pit 1, 230m long and 62m wide, 1.5 times the size of a soccer field - Pit 3, where the military command post was located, Pit 2, where the chariot unit was located - Tomb of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, discovered by chance during highway construction in 1990 - The tomb of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, son of Liu Bang, founder of the Han Dynasty, and father of the famous Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and his empress - Cooking utensils and household items that allow us to infer the lives of common people at the time were discovered - Huaqing Pond, famous for the love story between Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Yang Guifei - Yeonhwatang, known as Emperor Xuanzong's private bathhouse, and Dongtangtang, where Yang Guifei is said to have bathed - Xi'an, the world's first international city, the rise and fall of a thousand-year-old capital - The city where the secrets of the tomb of Qin Shi Huang lie dormant, the greatest discovery of this century ■ KBS Walk Around the World PDs-created overseas travel YouTube channel 【Everywhere, K】 ■ The Travels of Nearly Everywhere! 10,000 of HD world travel video clips with English subtitle! (Click on 'subtitles/CC' button) ● Subscribe to YOUTUBE - http://goo.gl/thktbU ● Like us on FACEBOOK - http://goo.gl/UKHX33 ● KBS Walking World website - http://travel.kbs.co.kr