Huaqing Pool

30km (18.6 miles) east of Xi’an and beside the Terracotta Army, Huaqing Palace features the Imperial Pools of the Tang Dynasty (618 – 907), Pear Garden, Frost Flying Hall, Nine-Dragon Lake, Five-Room Building and Mount Li. Huaqing Pool is famous for the romantic love story of Tang Emperor Xuanzong and his concubine Yang Yuhuan.

As a former royal city, Xi’an witnessed the rises and falls of 13 dynasties in Chinese history. Unlike its equivalent Beijing majorly served later dynasties of Yuan, Ming, and Qing after the 13th century, Xi’an’s climax run through the one-thousand-year period from Qin Dynasty (BC 221 – 207), Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) to Tang Dynasty(618 – 907 AD).