Huaqing Pool used to be the hot spring for concubine Yang Guifei bathing. With green mountains and blue water, it won the appreciation of emperors in history. Visiting here, the tourist will introduce you the romantic love story of Emperor Xuanzong (685-762) and his concubine Yang Guifei.
Huaqing Pool
Huaqing Pool is located at the foot of north Lishan Hill in Lintong, 30 kilometers from Xi'an City. With green mountains and blue water, it won the appreciation of emperors in history. The most famous one is the romantic love story of Emperor Xuanzong (685-762) and his concubine Yang Guifei in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Its long history and location among the wonderful landscapes of Xi'an should entice any visitor to visit and bathe in this hot spring.
Huaqing Pool
It is said that King You built a palace here during the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC-711 BC). Additions were subsequently made by the First Emperor Qing (259 BC-210BC) and Emperor Wu during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-24). During his reign, the Emperor Xuanzong spent dizzying amounts of his funds to build a luxurious palace, changing its name to Huaqing Hot Spring or Huaqing Palace. Over the course of 41 years in his days, he visited the palace as many as 36 times. The palace thus has a history of 3,000 years and the hotspring a history of 6,000 years! Ranked among the Hundred Famous Gardens in China, it also has the status as a National Cultural Relic Protection Unit and a National Key Scenic Area.
Every night the show, the largest-scale historical play of its kind in China, titled Everlasting Regret is performed here with the real mountain and water as background. And with reference to the original location and appearance, the show vividly illustrates the love story about Emperor Xuanzong and his imperial Concubine Yang.
Address: Huaqing Road, Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi.
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