Huaqing Hot Springs (or Huaqing Palace) is famous for the romantic love story of Emperor Xuanzong (685-762) and his concubine Yang Guifei in Tang Dynasty (618-907). It also boasts top-class hot springs. Located 30 km (18.6 miles) west Luxury China Tours of Xian, the hot springs have allured many kings and emperors over the past 3,000 years. Destroyed and rebuilt several times, the existing Huaqing Palace was reconstructed in 1959, covering an area of 85,560 sq meters (21.1 acres).
It is said that King You built a palace here during the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC-711 BC). The palace was expanded during the Qin and Han dynasties. In A.D. 747, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty enlarged it further. He built a pool fed China Custom Tour with hot spring water, more palatial halls and a long wall around the palace. Over the course of 41 years in his days, Emperor Xuanzong visited the palace as many as 36 times. He renamed it Huaqing Palace. Because there was a pool of hot spring water it was also called Huaqing Hot Spring or Huaqing Pool. The palace thus has a history of 3,000 years and the hot spring a history of 6,000 years.
Huaqing Hot Spring boasts picturesque scenery with exquisite pavilions and terraces, luxuriant trees, magnificent halls and towers and placid Nine-Dragon Lake. Covering an area of 5,300 square meters (6339 square yards), Nine-Dragon Lake constitutes one of the main enchanting sceneries in the Huaqing Palace, with lotus floating on the water and emitting sweet fragrance. Mirrored in the lake you will see and a surrounding complex of constructions interspersed with willows and rocks, including Frost-Flying Hall, Nine Bend Corridor China Travel and Marble Dragon Boat. The magnificent Frost-Flying Hall used to the bedroom of Emperor Xuanzong and his concubine Yang, with red supporting pillars and fine-patterned carvings.
In history Huqing Hot Spring was acclaimed as “First Imperial Hot Spring” in China. On the Site of Imperial Pool, which is the only one of its kind to be discovered in China, there are five remaining pools, namely Lotus Pool, Crabapple Pool, Shangshi Pool, Star Pool and Prince Pool. The lotus-like Lotus Pool was made for the Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the Crabapple Pool Luxury China Tours 2014 resembling a Chinese Crabapple was intended for Xuanzong’s favorite concubine Yang, the “Star Pool” for Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the Shangshi Pool was designated for officials, and the Prince Pool was for the Princess to use as its name suggested. There is also an exhibition hall with more than 3,000 pieces of cultural relics on display.
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