华清池 [Huaqing Chi]<BR> [Huaqing Hot Springs]

Xi'an: 临潼县外事办公室 [Lintong xian waishi bangongshi]. (1960s - 1970s). Stock ID #223594

Folding tourist map of Huaqing Hot Springs, delicately illustrated and coloured in orange and blue, 35.4 x 37cm, text in simplified Chinese characters. A little worn with a few closed tears in margins and at central fold repaired with washi, not affecting image. In good condition.

Huaqing Hot Springs is a well known tourist destination located beneath Mount Li, east of Xi'an. Apart from its beautiful location, Huaqing Pool or Hot Springs is notable for two historic events: Emperor Xuanzong's romance with the famous beauty Yang Guifei - which is said to have led to the decline of the Tang Dynasty; and also the 1936 "Xi'an Incident", when the warlord Zhang Xueliang kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek and made him form a United Front with the Chinese Communist Party to oppose the Japanese. On the reverse are details about various beauty spots and buildings in the Mount Li area.

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