Where is the Big Wild Goose Pagoda?

Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located in Ji 'an, Yanta District, Xi City, Shaanxi Province.

The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located in Jinchangfang (now southwest of Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province) in Chang 'an in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "Ci 'en Temple Pagoda". In the third year of Tang Yonghui (652), Xuanzang presided over the construction of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to preserve the scroll Buddha statues brought back to Chang 'an by Tianzhu via the Silk Road. There were five floors at first, then nine floors were built, and then the floors and heights were changed several times. Finally, it was fixed as a seven-story pagoda with a total height of 64.517m and a bottom length of 25.5m..

The Big Wild Goose Pagoda, as the earliest and largest existing quadrangle-style brick pagoda in the Tang Dynasty, is a typical material evidence that the ancient Indian Buddhist temples were introduced into the Central Plains with Buddhism and merged into China culture, and it is a landmark building that embodies the wisdom of the working people in ancient China.

Xi 'an special food

Chinese hamburger, one of the top ten snacks in China, is a famous food in Shaanxi, and it is also the soul symbol of Shaanxi cuisine. It is a famous specialty snack in Shaanxi, especially the "Chinese hamburger" of xi 'an Baijimo. Cucurbit chicken is a traditional dish of Han nationality in Xi, Shaanxi Province. Started in the Tang Dynasty, it is called "Chang 'an's first sight". It is characterized by golden red color, crisp skin and tender meat, and fragrant and rotten taste. It is a famous specialty in Shaanxi Province.

Beef and mutton steamed buns are well made, with thick and mellow ingredients, thick carrion soup, fat but not greasy, overflowing aroma, attractive appetite and endless aftertaste after eating. Su Shi, a famous poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem, "There is bear wax in the dragon, and Qin cooks mutton soup alone." Pant noodle, commonly known as biang biang noodle, is a traditional folk noodle in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province, especially the flour ground by wheat in Guanzhong, and then rolled into wide noodles by hand, so it is named after the sound of biáng in the production process.

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