Night Activities in Xian

Tang Dynasty Music and Dance Show
Tang Paradise is the largest cultural theme park in the north-west region. And it is also the first large royal cultural theme park with garden style, which fully exhibits the heritage of the Tang Dynasty.  Established in 1988, the Tang Dynasty Palace has cooperated with the Shaanxi Provincial Song & Dance Troupe and has staged the Tang Dynasty Music and Dance Show, which has proved to be a great success and is welcomed by numerous audiences, especially foreign visitors.
 

Chinese Shadow Show
Chinese shadow show, also called leather silhouette play, is a type of drama with its roots in China. With a long history, shadow show usually used wooden puppets in the past while today’s shadow show uses leather puppets. Nowadays, artists always use the leather of ass or cattle to make the puppets, mainly the puppets of human figures.Shadow show consists of leather puppets, scene and other properties. It always uses a piece of silk fabric as screen, and oil lamp as lighting fixture. When performing, artists hold the control stick in hands, hiding behind the screen. The shadow of the leather puppet is cast on the screen, singing and dancing with the music. It shows the odors of folk.

Xian Music Fountain
The Music Fountain lies in the north square of big wild goose pagoda and the north square of big wild goose pagoda is located at the root of the big wild goose pagoda. Musical fountain has 22 kinds of water types. The big laser water screen, about sixty-meter wide and twenty-meter high, is peculiarly magnificent. Four sets of fire spring spurt out from the water and blossom out at six-meter high air. Generally, the fountain contains 1360 sets pumps, 1124 sets of transducers, 3300 sets of lampion and more than 2,000 sets of nozzles in all. Besides, it equips with high technological lighting system and professional audio systems. What is most amazing is that the sound, the light, the water and the color of the fountain are harmoniously combined. As a consequence, millions of local people and tourists are attracted there to enjoy the splendid views.

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