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6/29/2025, 4:20:24 AM
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As someone who's actually been to Xi'an and seen both the city walls and the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, I'm honestly skeptical of these claims.
There's NO way that wall's never been rebuilt, like ever. It's just too polished and perfect, and even contains car-sized gates and stuff.
And if you actually go to the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, they interestingly don't allow pictures inside. For context, the pagoda was commissioned for the monk Xuanzang, who was the IRL basis of the monk from the Monkey King / Journey to the West story. There's this multicolored spherical thing which is supposed to be "Monk Xuanzang's essence" or something like that, but who knows how true that is or how old that is. The pagoda was supposed to house tons of Buddhist scriptures, but I saw no scriptures, or even replicas thereof. Just smooth beige walls, stairs, and that "relic".
It's as "original" as the contemporaneous Badaling section of the Great Wall (Ming dynasty), known for its generous renovation and proximity to Beijing. Nanjing's wall from the same era is a little mossier from the pics, so it might be more authentic, but I've never been.
Still worth visiting IMO, but to say it's truly the OG OG might be a little misleading. IDK though.
(Also check out Datong fyi, I forget which dynasty their wall was from, but it was probably rebuilt during your lifetime.)
As someone who's actually been to Xi'an and seen both the city walls and the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, I'm honestly skeptical of these claims.
There's NO way that wall's never been rebuilt, like ever. It's just too polished and perfect, and even contains car-sized gates and stuff.
And if you actually go to the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, they interestingly don't allow pictures inside. For context, the pagoda was commissioned for the monk Xuanzang, who was the IRL basis of the monk from the Monkey King / Journey to the West story. There's this multicolored spherical thing which is supposed to be "Monk Xuanzang's essence" or something like that, but who knows how true that is or how old that is. The pagoda was supposed to house tons of Buddhist scriptures, but I saw no scriptures, or even replicas thereof. Just smooth beige walls, stairs, and that "relic".
It's as "original" as the contemporaneous Badaling section of the Great Wall (Ming dynasty), known for its generous renovation and proximity to Beijing. Nanjing's wall from the same era is a little mossier from the pics, so it might be more authentic, but I've never been.
Still worth visiting IMO, but to say it's truly the OG OG might be a little misleading. IDK though.
(Also check out Datong fyi, I forget which dynasty their wall was from, but it was probably rebuilt during your lifetime.)
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