中国唐苑

About this audio guide

This guide to Zhongguo Tang Yuan in Xi'an walks through a garden built on Han-dynasty imperial hunting grounds, where farm tools once used by nameless villagers across the Guanzhong plain have been given a second life as garden features. You'll learn how stone troughs, mortars and hitching posts, carved for hulling grain, tying up mules and paving paths, now stand among the pines and ponds. It traces the site's shift from an emperor's private park to a garden borrowing the name of the dynasty that followed him. Start at the stone trough by the gate and work your way in.