An optional destination after visiting Terracotta Army - Huangqing Pool

Huangqing Palace, an optional for China travel deals, has become famous for the love story between Emeperor Xuangzong of Tang Dynasty and his imperial Concubine Yang. In the zone to the east of Huaqing Hot Spring, there is a horizontal tablet with the golden inscription "Huangqing Chi" by Guo Moruo. There are buildings such as Lotus Pavilion, Rosy Cloud Pavilion and Five-Room Hall. The tablet of Eulogy to the Hot Spring carved on the stone cliff has been rated as the masterpiece among the treasured Chinese tablets. The middle zone houses the museum of the imperial hot springs of Huaqing Palace with the bathing pools named repectively as Lotus, Crab Apple, Princ, Retinue and Constellation, and there is also a room displaying the cultural relics. The west zone contains the Nine Dragon Bathing Pool, the Rosy Cloud Palace and the large mural painting titled"Concubine Yang Yuhuan receives the imperial edict at Huaqing Palace".

Every night the show, the large-scale historical play of its kind in China, title Everlasting Regret is performed here with the real mountain and water as background. And with reference to the original location and apperance, the show vividly illustrates the love story about Emperor Xuanzong and his imperial Concubine Yang.

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