Shaanxi's Spectacular Historical Sites and Relics: A Tour of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units - Part Two

Author: Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics
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Publishing Date: 2003-10-01
Features: To enable people to have a comprehensive understanding of Shaanxi's history, to provide a basis for governments at all levels to formulate social and economic development plans, to better promote Shaanxi and expand its opening-up, and to provide materials for cultural relic management departments at all levels to protect cultural relics. This book was organized and compiled. Through written descriptions, it concisely introduces the situation of each national key cultural relic site in Shaanxi, accompanied by photographs. The 55 national key cultural relic protection units in our province can be roughly divided into several categories: ancient sites, ancient tombs, ancient buildings, ancient grottoes and stone carvings, important modern and contemporary historical sites, representative buildings, and others. They all possess high historical and academic research value. Sites like the Lantian Ape Man Site and the Banpo Prehistoric Settlement Site are internationally renowned important historical sites for studying human origins and primitive social life. Capital city sites and imperial mausoleums are evidence of important stages in the historical development of the Chinese nation. Grottoes and important stone carvings are symbols of the economic and cultural prosperity of various stages of feudal society in China. Shaanxi is not only rich in historical relics but also holds an important position in revolutionary relics nationwide. Revolutionary memorial sites declared as national key cultural relic protection units have all played significant roles in the history of the modern Chinese people's revolutionary struggle. These national key cultural relic protection units fully reflect the profound historical heritage of Shaanxi's ancient land.