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Xi'an, China
5 customs and traditions in Xi'an — what they are, and how to take part without causing offence.
Court performance reconstructed from Tang records, staged nightly with dinner.
A Shaanxi tradition with translucent leather figures and sung narration.
Folk paper-cut design, still made for windows and festivals in the villages around the city.
Xi'an was Chang'an, the eastern terminus, and the Hui community is the living evidence.
A museum of 3,000 inscribed stone tablets, and a working reference for calligraphers.
