Xi'an Time Travel Guide: Terracotta Warriors, Mutton Soup Buns and the Tang Dynasty City That Never Sleeps

——Alex's Time and Space Folding Guide

07:00 Qin Dynasty Awakening Ceremony

One hour before the Terracotta Warriors Museum opens, you will find staff members cleaning pottery fragments with special bamboo sticks - this is the daily "worship ceremony" of the restorers. Secretly tell you: the kneeling archer figurines in the third row of Pit 1 have the signature Easter eggs of the restorers hidden in the folds of their clothes.

10:30 Tang Dynasty Tea Ceremony

The "Tang Teahouse" under the Big Wild Goose Pagoda provides a time travel experience: when drinking Fu tea with a three-color camel cup, the tea artist will teach you to tap the table three times with your index finger - this is the court code to thank the tea pourer during the Xuanzong period. "Guifei Su" must be ordered with tea, and the filling contains pomegranates grown with the hot spring water of Huaqing Palace.

12:00 Password for Pao Mo Jianghu

At "Laomijia" deep in Huimin Street, you need to give a secret code: "Water surrounds the city, a mouthful of soup" - this means that you want to eat the steamed bun with wide soup and chewy texture. The boss will sigh when he sees that the steamed bun is too big for tourists, and handing over scissors at this time is a local etiquette to make up for it.

15:00 Time-Space Tunnel of the City Wall

After climbing the city from Yongning Gate, ride west and stop at the glass plank road of the "Hanguang Gate Ruins Museum". Through the 7-meter-deep Tang Dynasty roadbed under your feet, you can see Kaiyuan Tongbao embedded in the wheel tracks - that is the "parking fee" left by the West Market Caravan a thousand years ago.

19:30 Pass Certificate of the City That Never Sleeps

Get the "Twelve Hours in China Tour Package Chang'an" mission card at the Tang Dynasty Never Sleeps Service Center: Find 3 NPCs wearing round-collared robes to recite poems, and you can exchange them for "Bad People Waist Card" (actually a mutton stir-fry exchange voucher). Hidden benefit: If you cross your hands to the parading golden armored warriors, you will be given a ginkgo leaf bookmark.

22:00 Morse code for supper

The Sajinqiao Night Market uses the color of the light string to distinguish the spiciness: red light string = devilish spicy, yellow light string = Shaanxi spicy, green light string = tourist spicy. Asking the grilled tendon owner "I want more cumin" will trigger the hidden menu: the "A Tale of Two Cities" flavor specially blended with Qianxian pepper and Hancheng pepper.