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-- Introduction
-- Attractions:
-- Banpo Village Remains
-- Bell Tower
-- Big Wild Goose Pagoda
-- City Wall
-- Daxingshan Temple
-- Drum Tower
-- Forest of Stone Steles Museum
-- Great Mosque
-- Green Dragon Temple (Qinglong Temple)
-- Huaqing Hot Springs
-- Huashan Mountain
-- Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang
-- Mausoleum of Western Han Emperor Liu Qi
-- Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses
-- Shaanxi Provincial History Museum
-- Small Wild Goose Pagoda
-- Straw Hut Temple
-- Tang Dynasty Dinner Show
-- Temple of Flourishing Teaching
-- Western Zhou Chariot Burial Pit
-- Xiangji Temple
-- Around Xian
Xian Hotels

The Western Zhou Chariot Burial Pit was unearthed at Zhangjiapo, Chang'an County in 1955. In the Bronze Age, the war chariot was the pre-eminent symbol of power. "Chariot-and-horse pits" contains funerary objects for deceased slave-owners for the Western Zhou dynasty. The slave buried as sacrificial offering testifies to the slave-owner's reactionary class nature.

This pit is rectangle-shaped with its length of 5.6 meters and depth of 2 meters. Inside the pit there are two chariots, six horses and one slave. One wooden chariot with only one thill is hauled by four horses, which was used to do battle and adorned with bronze. The other one is hauled by two horses, which was used to ride and decorated with seashell.

The unearthed chariots, the remains of horses and their decorations exemplify that the handicraft industry of three thousand years ago such as wood work, leather work, the metal work, especially the bronze production of this period, had reached quite high technical standard.

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