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Location: Shaanxi History Museum
Location: Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province
Once you enter Chang'an, you can glimpse a thousand years at a glance.

Stepping through the朱红大门 of the Shaanxi History Museum feels like passing through a corridor of time. The sentiment of "Once entering Chang'an, one can glimpse a thousand years at a glance" is vividly illustrated at this moment.

Strolling through the exhibition hall, starting from the Neolithic human-faced fish-patterned colored pottery basin, my fingertips seem to touch the warmth of the ancestors from eight thousand years ago; the taotie pattern on the Shang and Zhou bronze cauldrons speaks of the solemnity of ritual and music under the light; fragments of the Terracotta Warriors from the Qin Dynasty are quietly displayed, and in a daze, one can almost hear the clamor of carriages and horses on the ancient road of Xianyang. The most breathtaking is the Tang Dynasty gilt iron-core bronze dragon, its body winding, with scales and claws prominent, as if the grand spirit of the flourishing Tang Dynasty is frozen within this small space.

In the glass display case, ancient coins reflect the luster of different dynasties, and each terracotta figurine outlines the diverse lives of common people. There is no need to deliberately trace back; the long scroll of time from the Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties to the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties slowly unfolds before the eyes. As I walked out of the exhibition hall, the setting sun of Chang'an was casting a slanted light on the eaves, and the thousand years of time seemed only a brief gaze.