Daming Palace National Heritage Park
Sweeping earthen platform marking a Tang-dynasty throne hall that once received Silk Road envoys from across Asia.
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This guide to Daming Palace National Heritage Park in Xi'an starts in the year 904, when soldiers working for the warlord Zhu Wen tore apart the buildings of Chang'an and floated the timber downriver toward a rival capital, ending more than two hundred forty years and seventeen emperors' worth of history on this ground. It then goes back to Hanyuan Hall in its prime, the throne hall whose base alone rose about fifteen meters, where emperors received Silk Road ambassadors from Japan, Korea, Persia and Central Asia every New Year's Day. Picture that platform ahead of you filled with silk robes and drumbeats rather than the open grass it holds now.
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