oh, my British children: Xi'an is also famous for being mispronounced. There's no "sh" sound. It's not She-an. Just say an "s" with a slight exhale before the "s." It should be transliterated as Hsi-an. Try it, it's easy. You can do it! Just "hs," not "sh," not "hsh".....just "Hsi-an."
I am so jealous. You guys are having so much fun in China. I want to do that ancient dress up too. @Libby, I like your hair do. You look fabulous in that red outfit.
Fun facts : There are overwhelmingly more Mosques in China than the whole of US & Europe combined. China has 39135 mosques compared with Europe's 7838 & US 2700. Hi from S'pore 👋
My hometown is in a province next to Xi'an Shanxi, many Muslims live here for thousand years. We have more than one mosque and most local restaurant in my city is run by Muslims, it just part of our life. So it's totally shocked when we heard that western media said China baned Muslims...now we finally understand they said that because they just can not understand people have different religions can be friends or family, but it is normal in China since ancient times. Thank you for showing people the diversity in this country.
They understand China is diverse to a certain extend but they cannot do it in their own country hence they are assuming China is lying and brainwashing the citizens with propaganda.
Religious freedom means you have the freedom to believe in any religion, and also the freedom not to believe. It's about your free will rather than your family and community making decisions for you.
Absolutely, shunning practice or punishment by any religious community or religious organisations because someone no longer believes or converts to other beliefs should be illegal.
As you know, Xi'an was the capital of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was one of the most powerful countries in the world at that time, and many foreigners would come to Xi'an to do business or travel. They would also wear the clothes of the time and visit the streets of Xi'an. After you put on the costumes of the Tang Dynasty, it is basically equivalent to following the ancient Westerners over a thousand years ago, traveling back to the prosperous Tang Dynasty and exploring the city of Xi'an. I think this is a very dreamy feeling
You mentioned that if you turn your head too fast, the thing will hit your face. You got it right！ That's exactly why it is there, court ladies were supposed to move slowly and gracefully.
Well, don't be surprised. Have you ever thought about, why Islam countries never blame China about its policy to Chinese Islam, but the countries like US, England, who don't like Islam, always blame China on its policy to Chinese Islam?🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣
just a side note here. these traditional towers and flying curved roofs were built without a single nail! they were all interlocked by wood dowels and dovetails!
@@richies7977 In fact, the roofs in Japan are different from those in China. Upon careful observation, Chinese roofs have curves, while Japanese roofs do not, because Japanese people have not learned this technology.
Fun fact: The oldest mosque in China is the Abi Waqqas Mosque in Guangzhou, on China’s east coast. It was built in 627 AD by one of the envoys (and uncle) of Muhammad himself. He traveled to China across the Indian Ocean instead of over land via the Silk Road, that’s why his mosque is on the east coast of China. China has had a history with Islam since pretty much Day 1.
I did a one year course at Beijing Film Academy and noticed that they have halal options in the school canteen. I asked around and was told that they have this in every university in China. Also, during filming productions they will always have a halal option for the cast and crew. Some even pretend to be Muslim because they said the food was better
No, all schools with Muslims have halal restaurants, even kindergartens, primary schools and secondary schools, not just universities. You don't need to pretend you are a Muslim, everyone can go to a Muslim restaurant to buy food.
you know what, as the war is going on, everything is getting more and more expensive, unemployment etc. life is stressful, your vlog always bring the best view of life with sunny smile. That makes me stay strong.thank u
@@sunkissedbucketlist xian city wall is not largest in china, it is only 12 km long, while the nanjing city wall is largest in not just china, but all around world, it originally was 37 km long 600 years ago, and now it has 27 km of original city wall, while pretty much all of xian city wall were rebuilt in 1983 , not original
Thanks for hard working, great video and you guys look AMAZING in those Hanfu, I can imagine how exhausting it was to wear those huge hair decorations 😂
@@sunkissedbucketlist I’m sure you deserve more than that, it’s too bad that we don’t have many RU-vid users in China. You two are getting really famous and popular on Bilibili though😁The Mi Xue Couple
China negara paling hebat di dunia Baik dari insfrastruktur nya, budaya, pendidikan, kecerdasanya, kegigihanya, mentalitasnya, militernya, alam nya yg begitu indah, dan banyak lagi keunggulan china di bandingakan negara lain, bagi saya china adalah negara ter unik di dunia
刚好主播是从成都到西安，科普一个有意思的小故事，成都到西安或是西安到成都的火车票价格是263元（不论是动车还是高铁），因为历史上，三国时期，蜀汉的灭亡时间是公元263年，蜀汉的丞相诸葛亮，曾经给君主写过一份建议书《出师表》，其中有一句：兴复汉室，还于旧都，这里的旧都值得就是成都，所以我们的票价就是为了纪念蜀汉的历史，这是专属于中国人的历史浪漫~Coincidentally, the anchor is traveling from Chengdu to Xi'an, and there is an interesting little story to popularize science. The train ticket price from Chengdu to Xi'an or from Xi'an to Chengdu is 263 yuan (whether it is a high-speed train or a high-speed train), because in history, during the Three Kingdoms period, the downfall of Shu Han occurred in 263 AD. The Prime Minister of Shu Han, Zhuge Liang, once wrote a proposal to the monarch titled "Departure from the Imperial Academy", which includes a sentence: "Revitalizing the Han Dynasty, returning to the old capital, Chengdu So our ticket prices are to commemorate the history of Shu Han is worth mentioning as a romantic historical site exclusively for the Chinese people."~
Lovely, historic Xi'an. 😍 Chinese walled cities featured drum and bell towers. Chinese temples also feature drum and bell towers. Korean and Japanese temples also follow this architectural tradition.
The Xi'an Muslim community is mostly made up of ethnically Han Chinese called Hui who have practiced Islam for centuries. Hui communities are spread throughout China and number around 10 million souls. Thank you for sharing China's diversity.
Are you sure they are Han Chinese? I think they are descendants of merchants from Middle East from the Silk Road. Some of them look very much Caucasian
Bro, there are a few mistakes here. The Hui people are not Han people. The Hui are a minority ethnic group in China. The origins of the Hui people can be traced back to Central Asian groups(and Arabs) who came to China during the Tang Dynasty . After several centuries, they merged with the local Chinese population to form a new ethnic group. The ancestors of the Hui people believed in Islam, while the Hui people themselves follow various branches of Islam, including Sufism, Hamediyya, and Zenbiyya. Although they all believe in Islam, the Hui have more diverse religious practices and customs.
@@WanderingStreet I'm not going to argue with you. Your opinion is fine. Do the genetic testing. Yes, Hui are recognized as a separate minority group in China but it's based more on history and religion not genetics.
@@deanzaZZR 68/5000 I'm not trying to argue, I'm just stating some of the correct sources of information. And,that is right, the Chinese concept of ethnicity is not a simple concept of genetics, but a synthesis of sociology and genetics, which is why it is so diverse
It is quite impressive to see that with so many people and so many street food stalls on the pedestrian street the street is still clean as you hardly see any litter lying around.
Such an immersive experience to dress in traditional clothing and walk the same paths as those from so many previous generations. Great job guys! 10/10!
Highly recommend you guys come to JiangSu province & ZheJiang province as well, especially HangZhou, YangZhou and SuZhou. You won't regret it😊 We have some iconic ‘Jiangnan' scenery here which is very different from the cities you have visited. There is a famous saying 'JUST AS THERE IS PARADISE IN HEAVEN, THERE ARE SUZHOU AND HANGZHOU ON EARTH.' So please consider visiting these places at any given chance❤
Because Taz did call it Roger Moore. The "Roger Moore" name for Rou Jia Mo was started by another British RU-vidr name Jason Lightfoot in his channel "Living in China" who is living in Guizhou with his Guizhou wife and kid. Then "Roger Moore" spreaded over the Chinese social medias and YT.
The bell tower and drum tower are sister tower that used to signal time and mark important events in ancient time. So bells are rung in the morning and drum are beaten at dusk. The bell also are rung every couple of hours to tell time since there were no clocks or watches.
Xi'an is the throne of the China's First Emperor Qin Shi Huang and hence the capital of the Qin Dynasty. What is more amazing is that if you look at a map Xi'an sits directly in the center of the country and hence the "Middle Kingdom" before airplanes and satellites they were able to determine this over 2000+ years ago ! The Terra Cotta Warriors is simply only a small part of the First Emperor's necropolis. The main tomb has still not been excavated yet as the necropolis stretches over 20sq kilometers.
It's quite normal to pay 500-1000 yuan deposit for one piece of the Hanfu dress, it depends on the materal and the way of making it, for example some hand-made Hanfu dresses could be very expensive, some could worth more than ten thousand of American dollars, but again it depens on the material and the way of making. So I guess they just requested you pay minimum deposit, two pieces of Hanfu for 1000 deposit, maybe they just trust in you won't damage their clothes.
II just got an answer why muslim praying time in Indonesia using drum (different with middle east culture) probably this is influence from Ming Dynasti of China becauze Chinese muslim also came to Indonesia thousand years ago (some ancient muslim preachers in Indonesia married with muslim chinese princess)
Interesting facts about Xi'an: Construction of shopping malls and subways in Xi'an was often forced to stop because it was a prosperous city in ancient times and there were tombs of royals or nobles everywhere underground.
the halal in chinese is very elegant, i don;t know halal in its meaning by arabic. but in chinese it can be translated in to two characters: clear or clean or pure and true.
you visited only Urumuqi in Xinjiang? you should at least go to kashigar as well. The vibe is very different , more uighur culture preserved, and it is more interesting for tourists..
I almost always order 杨枝甘露 'Mango Pomelo Sago' every time I go to Mixue. I highly recommend that you try it too. By the way, having fun in China! In fact, every major city has its own character, and Xi'an's is a confidence in its culture. There have been news reports in recent years saying that building a subway in Xi'an is a troublesome affair, because construction often uncovers burial sites that are thousands of years old. Whenever this happens, the subway construction team has to pause and let museum staff take over their work. The people of Xi'an have a strong love for their city's culture, which in fact is a microcosm of the Chinese people.
It should be around end of Feb.,nearby the "Lantern Festival" (a traditional festival in China)，that's why there were various kind of lanterns on the city wall.
Have you been to Datang Everbright City that chinese name is "da tang bu yeah cheng "? Please do visit it in the evening. It's really beautiful and colorful.I was blown away the first time I went
The first and oldest mosque in China was the Huaisheng Mosque in Guangzhou, built during the Tang dynasty in 627 CE. The Great Mosque of Xian, is one of the four largest mosques in China as well as the largest in Xi’an. Id Kah Mosque in Xinjiang, the largest in that province, was built much later in the 1400s.
Xi'an City, formerly known as Chang'an or Haojing. Xi'an is the "World Historic City" determined by UNESCO in 1981, one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization and the Chinese nation, the starting point of the Silk Road, a world-famous historical city, as well as the world famous ancient cities such as Rome, Athens, Cairo, etc. It is one of the six ancient capitals in China with the longest history. In history, there have been 13 dynasties' capitals, and two six heritage sites have been included in the The World Heritage List, namely, the the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and the Terra Cotta Warriors, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the Little Wild Goose Pagoda, the Daming Palace Site of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, the Weiyang Palace Site of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty, and the Xingjiao Temple Tower. There are also attractions such as Xi'an City Wall, Bell and Drum Tower, Huaqing Pool, Zhongnan Mountain, Datang Furong Garden, Shaanxi History Museum, and Beilin.
Great video ❤. Your knowledge and understanding of Islamic history - Halal - Mosque, Tapestry - but also that of the Great Silk Road journeys is really refreshing. Good luck on your travels.
Well as a chinese im shocked that western countries are saying we are discriminate Muslim🤔. The biggest reason is that every university in china has two kinds of restaurant. One is normal and one is muslimism, and in city if a restaurant is muslimism then it will not be checked on food hygiene, which even made a funny and popular slang in china: first-class citizen is foreigner, second-class citizen is muslim, third-class citizen is han🤣. Its true actually in some way. like me, Im not a muslim but a minority ---- dong nationality, i can get extra more 10 point in every entrance exam，just because im minority, if i were in tibet/xinjiang/ningxia/guangxi and other ethnic enclaves, i could get extra 20 point by doing nothing, but my han classmates can get nothing extra. although i have to use vpn to see youtube, twitter and you know ... PORNS🤣, and after Xi came into power, the speech control does get more serious. i think china is good. i love china, so i know the real shortcomings of china. Well pros and cons. i dont want all you guys like china, but i think its neccessary that you guys should know the REAL china. in chinese internet, therei s a slang as "黑都黑不到点上" means "shame that you cant even disparage someone on the right point". i think its the situation in which the western medias are.
I'm Chinese.I believe that it's a good policy to have the great firewall, because there are too much fake news and spiteful misleading information on western Internet(e.g. XinJiang lies), which are deliberately created by western medias and agencies like CIA so as to sabotage the development of China. They conspiratorially create those pieces of spiteful misleading information with the intention of creating conflicts among Chinese people and between Chinese people and Chinese government, and distract Chinese people from building our country. As China is not a hegemony of propaganda, we have to build a firewall to protect us. Actually, using VPNs is tacitly allowed in China, which is also a clever policy, because those who can't master the skills of using VPNs are more likely to lack good education and lack the ability of distinguishing fake information.
Your video is so great!!by the way, you can set the video frame rate to 29.97 or 59.94 (not an integer like 30, 60, etc.) to avoid the problem of flickering lights in the video
dari dinasti Ming, salah satu selirnya beragama Islam dan untuk menunjukkan rasa cintanya kaisar membuatkan tempat tinggal di kota terlarang, tapi aku menyayangkan tempat selir berornamen Islam tidak terawat di dalam kawasan kota terlarang.
Thank you guys. I left my hometown Xian for over 10 years. Through your camera, I recall tons of cherished memories. bell tower, drum tower, Huimin street(food street), and city wall, all of these are really fantastic. Highly recommend to taste the iconic food pita bread soaked in lamb soup (羊yang 肉rou 泡pao 馍mo), and explore Giant Wild Goose Pagoda area. Welcome to Xi’an, enjoy it!
@@sunkissedbucketlist No, nearly everything inside the city wall remains the same as it did 30 years ago, except it is busier now. By contrast, the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda area, redeveloped around 2010, is now one of the hottest sights in China. It can transport you back to the Tang Dynasty, offering a real dreamland experience, especially in the evening.
@@sunkissedbucketlist BTY, besides Xian and Chengdu, there are many cities I really like and recommend to you, where you can see multiple aspects of China, like Kashgar (Ka Shi in Chinese) in southwest Xinjiang, Dali in Yunnan and Lhasa.
Please, can you go to my hometown Baoji to see it? It's right next to Xi'an and takes about 10 minutes by high-speed rail. I haven't gone back for several years and I want to see the changes in my hometown. Thank you. There are many fun places in Baoji, including the Yan Emperor Mausoleum and the Zhou Gong Temple, which are worth your visit
