Xi'an City Wall Lantern Festival: Hidden Gems You Didn't Know About!

🎉 The 2025 Xi'an City Wall Lantern Festival is finally here! Today, we're bringing you a super detailed guide to the lantern festival. Bring your friends and family to check it out! 👭👫 ⏰ Lighting time: From January 22 (Little New Year's Eve) to March 9, the lights will be turned on at 18:00 every day. Remember to plan your time so you don't miss this gorgeous night view! Lantern festival area: Mainly concentrated in the Wenchang Gate–Wumu Gate section and Yongning Gate area. Each lantern here carries a rich cultural heritage, making you feel like you've traveled back to the Tang Dynasty. 🎟️ Ticket guide: Lantern festival area adult ticket: 100💰 Half-price ticket: 50💰 (for those aged 6–18, full-time undergraduate students, etc.) Outside the event area adult ticket: 45💰 Student ticket: 27💰 🚗 Transportation guide: Subway: Take Line 2 to Yongningmen Station, exit from Exit D2, and walk to Yongningmen Square. Bus: Take bus 6, 11, 12, or 16 to Nanmenwai Station or Nanmen Station, and walk to the destination. 🚶‍♀️ Recommended tour route: Enter from Yongning Gate, walk clockwise along the city wall, and pass through Wenchang Gate, Heping Gate, Jianguo Gate, etc. This route allows you to fully appreciate the five themed lanterns in the Wenchang Gate–Wumu Gate section and Yongning Gate area! 🏮 Recommended lantern groups: 🐍 Golden Snake Dance: Kettledrums, pipa, and other musical instruments are intertwined with golden snakes and lanterns, creating a super shocking scene! 🧚🏻‍♀️ Shadow Puppets in Chang'an Celebrate the New Year: Shadow puppet lanterns and Journey to the West collide, recreating the legendary journey to the west to obtain the Buddhist scriptures. 🍶 Eight Immortals Drinking: Recreates the scene of eight poets drinking and having fun in the Tang Dynasty. The characters are vivid and lifelike, as if taking visitors back to that era of poetry and wine. 🐉 Twelve Divine Beasts Celebrate the New Year: The twelve zodiac signs are presented in a new, lively, and cute way, inheriting the cultural meaning of thousands of years and integrating the innovative beauty of modern art. ⚠️ Travel tips: There are many visitors during the lantern festival, so take care of your personal belongings, especially in crowded places. 👛👟 The wind is strong on the city wall, so be careful when taking photos to hold your phone or camera steady to avoid dropping it. 📱📷 Standing on the stairs on the west side of Yongning Gate, you can take a photo of the cute full view of the Golden Snake Dance lantern group. 📸 Use the gates of the city wall as the foreground to take silhouette photos of people and lanterns, creating a great atmosphere! 🏞️ Come to the Xi'an City Wall Lantern Festival and experience the lively and festive atmosphere! 🎊 🎈 Remember to wear warm clothes, as the wind at night can be a bit chilly. 🧣