The History of China | Chinese Terracotta Army of Qin Shihuang's tomb at Xian, Shaanxi, China.

Shaanxi History Museum, Xi ' an.

Lü Zhi's jade seal, in the Shaanxi History Museum.

Statue of Zhang Qian in Shaanxi History Museum, Xi ' an

The entrance into the Shaanxi History Museum in Xi ' an, China

Shaanxi History Museum was constructed from 1983.

With the completion of the Shaanxi History Museum, it collected over 370, 000 precious relics which were unearthed in Shaanxi Province, including bronze wares, pottery figures, and mural paintings in Tang tombs.

* Shaanxi History Museum website

Category: History of Shaanxi

Category: History of Shaanxi

Category: History of Shaanxi

Shaanxi History Museum, Xi ' an.

Category: History of Shaanxi

Category: History of Shaanxi

The gold-plated incense burner given to Wei Qing by Emperor Wu, in Shaanxi History Museum

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, an Eastern Jin tomb painting from Nanjing, now located in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum.

This includes the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, painted on a brick wall of a tomb located near modern Nanjing and now found in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum.

Image: Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. jpg | Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, an Eastern Jin tomb painting from Nanjing, now located in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum.

* Photography of the Shaanxi Museum

A keen naturalist, he arranged a 1906 expedition to Shaanxi, China to collect zoological specimens for the British Museum during which Arthur de Carle Sowerby discovered a new species of jerboa.

For instance, in 1985, a young worker at a shoe factory put up a poster on the wall of a factory in Xianyang, Shaanxi, which declared that " The Cultural Revolution was Good " and led to achievements such as " the building of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, the creation of hybrid rice crops and the rise of people's consciousness.

During the period immediately following the Long March, Mao and the Chinese Communist Party were headquartered in Yan ' an, which is a prefecture-level city in the Shaanxi province.

The Long March most commonly refers to the transfer of the main group of the First ( or Central ) Red Army, which included the leaders of the Communist Party of China, from Yudu in the province of Jiangxi, to Yan ' an in Shaanxi.

Furthermore, he promoted the theory of gradual climate change over centuries of time once ancient petrified bamboos were found to be preserved underground in the dry, northern climate zone of Yanzhou, which is now modern day Yan ' an, Shaanxi province.

During the Warring States Period ( 475 BC-221 BC ) Chu became the major adversary of the upstart state of Qin to the northwest ( in what is now Shaanxi province ), which began to assert itself by outward expansionism.

A native of modern-day Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, he was part of the powerful Dou clan which dominated court politics during his tenure.

These figurines, which are dated circa 8th century BC, were discovered during a 1980 excavation of a Zhou Dynasty palace in Fufeng County ( Shaanxi Province ).

One example is The East Is Red, a folksong from northern Shaanxi which was adapted into a nationalist hymn.

Its pattern of tone spelling remains in the standard spelling of the Chinese province of Shaanxi ( shǎnxī ), which cannot be distinguished from Shanxi ( shānxī ) when written in pinyin without diacritics.

After Western Xia fell, its territory centered in Ningxia was fragmented by the successive establishments of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai provinces, which increasingly weakened the political and military powers of the Monguor.

the Monguor troops led by their Tusi defended not only their own homeland but also joined the national army to participate in wars that took place as far as in eastern Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Yunnan, Mongolia, and Dunhuang, which progressively weakened their military power.

Yan ' an (), is a prefecture-level city in the Shanbei region of Shaanxi province, People's Republic of China, administering several counties, including Zhidan County ( formerly Bao ' an ), which served as the headquarters of the Chinese Communists before the city of Yan ' an proper took that role.

Arthur had been a student preacher in Wraysbury in the 1880s, after which he spent 35 years as a missionary work in Shaanxi, China.

* Yan ' an, Chinese city in Shaanxi province, which was the Communist Party's capital from 1936 to 1948

The Chimei leaders, while militarily powerful, were however, even less capable at ruling than Emperor Gengshi, and they soon alienated the people of the Guanzhong ( 關中, modern central Shaanxi ) region, which they had taken over when they overthrew Emperor Gengshi.

It was reported that Muslim villages in Henan province, which was next to Shaanxi, were totally unnaffected by the Dungan revolt and relations between Han and Hui continued normally.

Allès wrote in the document " Notes on some joking relationships between Hui and Han villages in Henan " published by French Centre for Research on Contemporary China that " The major Muslim revolts in the middle of the nineteenth century which involved the Hui in Shaanxi, Gansu and Yunnan, as well as the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, do not seem to have had any direct effect on this region of the central plain.

The plan, however, had a fatal flaw — it assumed that Wei forces would siege the border cities, which, instead, Deng Ai and Zhong Hui ignored, and they advanced instead on Yang ' an Pass ( 陽安關 ; in present-day Hanzhong, Shaanxi ), capturing it.

which is a major mountain system of the western Hubei, Shaanxi, Chongqing and Sichuan.

Zhang insisted on turning southward to establish a new base in the regions inhabited by Tibetan and Qiang minorities, which later proved to be a disaster, causing Zhang to lose over 75 % of his force and eventually forced him to return to the communist base in Shaanxi, as Mao correctly pointed out the way it should.

Much dialogue is also carried out in an archaic form of Mandarin Chinese, in which the Zhongyuan Mandarin dialects of Henan and Shaanxi are closest.