Great Tang All Day Mall

Great Tang All Day Mall, Xi'an Attractions

Overview

As one of four ancient capitals in China, Xi'an is rich in Chinese history and culture. Xi'an served as the capital city of Tang Dynasty, known as "The city of Chang'an" in Tang Dynasty, which is one of the most developed dynasties in ancient China. The Great Tang Dynasty All Day Mall is a place to reproduce the grand Tang Dynasty culture by Xi'an local government.

The Great Tang All Day Mall is reportedly the 'largest and longest pedestrian street of tourist landscape and cultural mall in Asia'. Great Tang All Day Mall is a comprehensive culture center and shopping mall with sight featuring the style of the Tang Dynasty as well as shopping, food and recreation facilities. The large area makes it impossible to visit everything here without half day. It's all a tribute to the Great Tang Dynasty culture and icludes the architectural style of that era including sculptures. It has devotions to great leaders, monks, artists, writers, poets, scientists and mathematicians of the Tang Dynasty. Seeing this area at night is totally different than during the day as the lighting is marvelous yet tastefully done.

Great Tang All Day Mall covers an area of 650,000 square meters from the South Square of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, across the Zhenguan Culture Square and Kaiyuan Ceremony Square, and finally reaches the Tang City Wall Relics Park as its southern end, it's around 1500 meters in lengh, 480 in width. The Great Tang All Day Mall is a one-stop comsumers' paradise, here people can experience different way of shopping. Because of the lights, the night of Great Tang All Day Mall is much more attractive than day time.

The large statuary landscape avenue on the axis combines nine groups of theme statuaries with modernized waterscape system and light system. The statuaries depict the Tang emperors, famous historical figures, historical heroes, classical art articles etc, showing the dominant achievements of the Tang Dynasty in religion, literature, art and technology. Zhenguan (the reign title of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty) Monument is the typical and symbolized building in the Great Tang All Day Mall. It is composed of a main statue of Emperor Taizong with a height of 5.95 meters (19.5 feet) on top of the tall monument and a group of statuaries of his attendants, including 12 buglers, 12 standard-bearers, 2 drummers and 6 court officials. 

On both sides of the avenue, there are six blocks built in the Tang Dynasty style, among which the Xi'an Concert Hall, Xi'an Grand Theater, Qujiang Cinema and Shaanxi Artists Gallery are the most attractive. A number of statues describing the locals' life in the Tang Dynasty are set along the streets, including the scenes of the birthday party, the shadow play, the clinic and doctor, the music show on the streets, the wrestling competition, etc.

Travel Guide

Address: Yanta South Road, Yanta District, Xi'an
Opening Hours: 24 Hours
Admission Fee: free
Recommend Time for Visit: 2-3 hours

How to get to Great Tang All Day Mall

1. Metro route: Take metro line 3 and get off Dayanta (Big Wild Goose Pagoda )Station and get out from exit B or C

2. Bus route: Take bus 5, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 30, 34, 41, 44, 224, 242, 271, 307, 400, 401, 408, 500, 521, 526, 527, 601, 606, 609, 701, Qujiang Tourist Bus, Huan Shan Tour Bus 1 & 2. Bus route: Tourist Bus Line 6 & 8 & 9 and get off at Dayanta Station.

3. From Xi'an railway train station, you can take taxi to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and you can walk to there, it cost around CNY 30