[2025 Xi'an ] Travel Guide for Forest of Stone Steles (Updated Apr)

📍Address: No. 2, South Street, Beilin District, Xi'an 🚗Transportation: 1. Subway: Line 2 to Yongningmen Station, Exit D. 2. Bus: Tour 7, 40. 🕙Opening hours: 08:00–22:00 💰Ticket price: CNY 54/person 🌟Highlights - Hanfu photo shoot: Don't miss the chance to take a beautiful photo in Hanfu under the ancient city wall! 👍Recommended Hanfu stores: ✅Shangxiu Hanfu & Makeup (South Gate) Address: Near Hongxin Garden, outside the South Gate. Features: New and clean Hanfu styles, washed after each use. ✅Shiyiju: Address: No. 33, Defu Lane, near the Bell Tower. Features: High makeup skills. ✅Chang'an Xu Guofeng Image Studio: Address: Under Kui Xing Lou, Wenchang Gate. Features: Fairy makeup is the specialty of this store, and the cosmetics are all top brands. ✅Qingyajian Hanfu Experience Hall: Address: Building 2, Hongxin International Garden. Features: High cost performance, with food and barbershops nearby, convenient for resting between shoots. ✅Yijin Chang'an Hanfu Experience Hall: Address: Yiyangtang B1, Yanta South Road. Features: Hundreds of Hanfu, one price for all. The price is not cheap, but the quality is good. 🌟Best photo spots: Yongning Gate, corner tower, city wall trail. 👍Recommended props: Round fan, carp lantern, oil-paper umbrella, ancient book.

🌟Highlights: The Xi'an Beilin Museum is located in the Beilin District of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. It was built in 1087 during the Northern Song Dynasty to preserve the Tang Dynasty's "Kaicheng Stone Classics" and "Shitai Xiaojing" as well as the famous calligraphy steles of Yan Zhenqing, Liu Zongyuan, and others. ❤Recommended reason: The "Shitai Xiaojing" displayed in the stele pavilion was carved in 745 during the Tang Dynasty. It was annotated by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Longji, and is known as the "First Stele to Welcome Guests." It is one of the earliest collections moved into the Beilin Museum.

A cave hotel near the Bell Tower in Xi'an! It's so beautiful! Please push this article to all the sisters who want to come to Xi'an! ✅️Cave design✅️Transparent bathtub✅️Near Bell Tower subway station. I would be sad if any sister comes to Xi'an and doesn't know about this hotel. 🌳Surrounding facilities and transportation 1⃣Turn right 100m from the apartment gate to reach the East Road of Xi'an Gymnasium, a food and bar street on Wukang Road 2⃣5-minute walk to Yongningmen (South Gate) subway station & SKP Mall & Zhongmao Plaza 3⃣10-minute walk to the bar street and Liuyuan 4⃣10-minute drive to Beilin Museum, Xiaozhai, and Muslim Street 🌿The cave design is so beautiful! Every corner is photogenic, and the atmosphere is perfect at night. The room is fully equipped! Giant screen projection, hair dryer, smart toilet, floating bathtub, staying here is so comfortable! The window view is the cityscape. Overall, it's cost-effective and a top choice for travel. I'll come again next time!

Xi’an’s favorite 🍀Treasure Hotel My sister and I stumbled upon a treasure B&B painting! Taking photos and checking in is really awesome! There are many types of rooms, the decoration and layout are very high-end, and the atmosphere can be easily grasped. Tatami projection➕couples bathtub➕double subway station➕5-minute clock tower 📍Location The location of the B&B is convenient, with two subway stations downstairs. Take a taxi to Xi'an Station in 17 minutes Both Muslim Street and Drum Tower can be reached on foot🚶🏻‍♀️ You can reach the clock tower in 5 minutes by bike🚴🏻‍♀️ 12 minutes to Xi’an City Wall and Forest of Steles Museum Serve The room I booked this time has a bathtub🛁It also comes with free disposable bath bags and bubble balls. It's nice to have a small compartment where you can eat and drink. The store service is very considerate and the staff will help carry your luggage. 📍Jichang Lane, Shuyuanmen, Beilin District, Xi'an

"Museums allow us to temporarily escape from our daily lives and immerse ourselves in a certain period of history. For example, at the Forest of Stone Steles Museum in Xi'an, looking at the wall of epitaphs, it's as if you've traveled through time and space, seeing the vivid lives of ordinary people. This is a unique and profound cultural experience that only museums can provide." I've been to many places, some for study, some for work, and some just for travel, but no matter where I go, I always visit the local museums. This habit, which I've maintained since college, has given me a different understanding of history and life.

The Beilin Museum is really worth a look. We stayed near the Beilin Museum while playing in Xi'an, so after arriving and dropping off our luggage, we went straight there without needing a reservation. Initially, I thought that since I don't understand the characters, a quick glance would suffice. However, upon entering, I found the environment to be wonderful, with so much to see. In Xi'an, where museums are everywhere, it's easy to feel like you've traveled back in time, and it's the same at the Beilin Museum, where you can have a dialogue with the ancients. I also saw a guy standing still in front of a stele, completely entranced, staring at a single character without blinking, as if he had entered a state of meditation. At that moment, I felt that he must have connected with the spirit of some great person from the past. Picture 1 is a creatively designed ice cream, very pretty~ The Beilin Museum is worth revisiting~

Having traveled through so many places, Xi'an is my white moonlight. Poets from the south, generals from the north, the loess of Shaanxi buries emperors; as the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, Xi'an's profound history has fulfilled all my expectations. The first stop—The Stele Forest. As I approached the entrance of the Stele Forest, my heart settled. The first stele to greet visitors is Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's 'Filial Piety Classic on Stone Platform,' whose grand clerical script embodies the spirit of the Tang emperor. The 'Kaicheng Stone Classics' gave me the greatest shock, with over six hundred and fifty thousand characters, each square character seems like a sage stepping out of the history books, narrating the splendid and brilliant Chinese civilization. The 'Six Steeds of Zhaoling' allowed me to have such a profound emotional connection with cultural relics for the first time; two of the paintings have been lost overseas, but one day, they will return to the Stele Forest! I hope I can witness that day. Xi'an Stele Forest Museum, due to partial construction and renovation, has reduced its ticket price from 50 to 10 yuan per person. The Stele Forest was established on the foundation of the Song Dynasty Confucian temple, known for its forest of steles and gathering of famous calligraphers' works, hence the name Stele Forest. The words 'Xi'an Stele Forest' were written by Lin Zexu. Due to the construction, the open area is quite limited, mainly displaying rubbings of steles. It is recommended to hire a guide for a better understanding of the stories of famous calligraphers. The guide we hired cost 30 yuan per person and took about 30-40 minutes. The second stop—The Terracotta Army. Respect to my bro Ying Zheng! The solemn and majestic Terracotta Army vividly displays the iron-blooded Qin Dynasty's conquests and territorial expansions, laying the foundation for China's eternal legacy. In my opinion, the greatest emperor of all time is none other than Qin Shi Huang. On the way there, the Didi driver said it's the 'off-season' now, with about 40-50 thousand visitors a day, not too many. Only after entering did I realize that Pit No.1 might be the place with the highest population density in China, with about 5-6 layers of people in front of the railing... I had to queue up several times before I finally 'squeezed' to the front. It was truly shocking; each warrior's face is different, not the kind that is mass-produced from a uniform mold, but each a completely independent 'person,' from facial expressions to clothing, all unique and lifelike. The other two pits mainly provide supplementary details and displays for Pit No.1. Originally, Pit No.2 had a well-preserved colored terracotta warrior (the colors would oxidize if not protected within 30 minutes of excavation), but unfortunately, it is no longer on display, which is a bit regrettable. Xi'an's attractions are quite scattered, so it's convenient to join a local day tour group. Food to try: mutton stew with bread, roujiamo (meat sandwich), and belt noodles—it's a carb paradise. Xi'an is great, I'll come again. Xi'an·Shaanxi