Shaanxi's Magnificent Collection of Cultural Relics and Historical Sites (Part Two: A Tour of Key National Cultural Relics Protection Units)

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 the formulation of social and economic development plans by various levels of government, to better promote Shaanxi and expand its opening-up, and to provide materials for cultural relic protection by various cultural relic management departments, this book was organized and compiled. Through written descriptions, it provides an overview of 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 are generally divided into several categories: ancient sites, ancient tombs, ancient buildings, 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 Village Site are internationally renowned important historical sites for studying human origins and primitive social life. Capital city ruins 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 struggles. These national key cultural relic protection units fully reflect the profound historical heritage of Shaanxi's ancient land.