Talk:Xi'an

message: To whom collects userboxes in their user page, I just created one: 
--Chenzjun 20:01, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userbox for People from Xi'an 

message: In Architecture section, it is saying that Shaanxi History Museum is an example of New Tang Style. However, should that building be Han-styled instead?
--Chenzjun 18:40, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shaanxi History Museum 

message: There is no need to, and really should not, put corresponding chinese charactors after wikified words or phrases.
--Chenzjun 08:22, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese Charactors after a Wikified Word 

message: Would it not be better, in the historical context of the city's reconstruction and adoption as the capital of the Sui, to translate Daxing (大兴) as Great Reconstruction or Great Beginning rather than Great Excitement? (Ref - the Sui dynasty entry) Tomtom08 13:00, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daxing 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Modern Ark 60.jpg

message: Please add a paragraph about 100 pyramids in the environs of Xi'an. This is a great article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by AverageTurkishJoe (talk • contribs) 07:41, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese Pyramids 

message: Anyone please verify this. I tried to search for more recent authoritative statistics but could not find. I could use a bit of help here.Wei.cs (talk) 14:31, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Xi'an Population Reference not valid

message: Citation: In October, Applied will be opening the world’s largest solar research center — in Xian, China. Gotta go where the customers are. So, if you like importing oil from Saudi Arabia, you’re going to love importing solar panels from China. 
Source: New York Times, article about Applied Materials photovoltaik factories --Pege.founder (talk) 19:48, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  World largest solar center October 2009 

message: Have't mentioned Xi'an as the start of The Silk Road...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.169.194.201 (talk) 14:35, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Xi'an, the history 

message: I don't believe guava flower is the city flower of Xi'an,it should be pomegranate flower. I grew up in Xi'an and pomegranate was a local produce ,not guava which is a fruit that grows in tropical climate. However, I'm not an expert on flowers so i'm not entierly sure.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.151.226.89 (talk) 07:53, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  City flower is possibly incorrect 

message: It would be helpful I think to indicate how the city name is pronounced. 128.111.146.209 (talk) 03:04, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: well unfortunately we do not have a file with the recorded pronunciation and there is no IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) listed. for now on, go to the pinyin article to see some equivalents in English; "Xi" should be similar to English "she". Now with "an"... definitely do NOT interpret it as the English word "an". more like British pronunciation of "and", obviously without the "d". --HXL's Roundtable, and Record 03:38, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Mount Huashan is not a part of Xi'an but the Weinan city.The photo must be delected or corrected.Jiangyu911 (talk) 04:41, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: New image (with the Bell Tower as replacement) uploaded. —HXL's Roundtable and Record 04:48, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This appears to have been reversed? The images now include Huashan and do not include a picture of the Drum Tower; the captions and images are currently mismatched. 2001:B011:1005:56B9:3CB7:5ACD:9EAE:68A7 (talk) 06:33, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mount Hua is not a part of Xi'an

message: What spelling should be used? Sian is the Postal Map spelling, Hsian/Hsi-An (depending on whether or not you drop the hyphen) is the Wade-Giles spelling. Xi'an or Xian is pinyin.
I would recommend Sian for three reasons. 
:1. It is closest to the pronunciation of the word 
:2. It is the name in many historical documents
:3. Postal Map has seniority over pinyin
OttomanJackson User:OttomanJackson  16:36, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: We saw a terracotta warrior docu last night where it was spelled with a Q, I think Qi'an or so. Sian could easily be mispronounced and sound like the old country name Siam. A uniform spelling though is definitely needed. 2001:8003:A928:800:8AD:9243:8588:846C (talk) 02:58, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sian, Hsian, Hsi-An, Xi'an, or Xian 

message: Under the tourism sites section, the sentence "Huaqing Hot Springs (華清池), at the foot of Mt. Lishan..." Since shan in Chinese is mountain, I believe the reference should be Mount Li (骊山).
76wins (talk) 05:33, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course it is redundant, and I have fixed it accordingly.  The Tartanator  16:34, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mt. Lishan redundant? 

message: I am ok when it is said the Mount is of the part of the city.If the statement is Huashan is near the city of not unter its administration,thats ok.Or, there must be a missunderstanding of the location of the mount. Thanks a lot.
华山不在西安市的管辖范围内，而是渭南市，如果提及华山请注明这一点，谢谢。Jiangyu911 (talk) 07:24, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mount Hua 

message: Substituted at 10:58, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: How is it possible that Xi'an defined as having 10 thousand square kilometers (sub-provincial city) yields less than 9 million inhabitants, but when we take into account only 4 thousand sq. km (metropolis) it performs almost 14 million? Isn't that a better idea to focus on the urban area which gives actually 6 million? Propositum (talk) 17:47, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population 

message: This may have a place in the article if it were cleaned up and had some sources:
:Several suggested abbreviations include Feng (, the city's first name when it was founded as the new capital of Zhou, meaning abundance, greatness, and bumper harvest), Hao (, derived from the name of Zhou dynasty's capital Haojing), or Tang (, from the name of the Tang dynasty).
Otherwise, we should just mention what the abbreviation actually is and if/when it changes. — LlywelynII 01:44, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: License plate discussion

message: The general policy is to avoid smooshing text between images if we can help it. I'll leave these here
File:Du Halde - Description de la Chine - Villes de Si ngan fou et Tchouang lan.jpg | Maps of "Si-gnan-fou" and "Tchouang-lan" from Du Halde's 1735 Description of China, based on accounts by Jesuit missionaries
File:Weiyang Palace site.JPG | Site of front hall of Chang'an's Weiyang Palace under the Western Han 
File:Daming Palace Hanyuan Hall Site.jpg | Site of the Hanyuan Hall of Chang'an's Daming Palace under the Tang
File:Xi'anviewpic15.jpg | Statues at the tomb of the Tang emperor Gaozong
File:Xi'an scene.jpg | Xi'an in 1908
File:Street statue of Lady Congsun sword-dance master of the Tang Dynasty.jpg |  Statue of Lady Gongsun, a sword-dance master of the Tang
since the current history section is too short to put them along the side and they don't seem quite interesting enough to put elsewhere in the article. Maybe once the history section or History of Xi'an article are longer, there will be good homes for them? — LlywelynII 02:06, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo gallery

message: shouldn't be bolded here (that's for alt names of Xi'an) and, indeed, don't belong in this article at all. Moved to the Nestorian Stele article. — LlywelynII 16:28, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Nestorian X, Y, Z, Z2, Z3...

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message: Is 经开区 (or 西安经济技术开发区) a new administrative division that we should add to this article? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 04:26, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: New administrative division?

message: Hello, I think it needs to be edited about "Names of past dynasties in Xi'an". WANG XIAOLING995  14:13, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names of past dynasties in Xi'an 

message: To add to this article:  mention of the Xixian New Area (西咸新区). 173.88.246.138 (talk) 16:48, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: To add to article

message: It's correct to have the page here instead of at Xian, but 100% the alt spelling needs to mentioned before Sian in the lead. It's not formally correct under the rules of pinyin, but it is extremely common in English usage regardless and we already have a note explaining the issues in the name section. See  and .
In fact, Ngram clearly shows Xian has been the primary form, is now still a common form, and Sian is now uncommon enough that it can just be mentioned in the Name section. — LlywelynII 14:01, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Xian

message: I noticed that the citation for the population in the lead does not match the actual number, which seems to be only found on a German demographic website. The population down to the person seems very odd for Chinese census results, which are often rounded. Is that number original research from the German website? I can't find it in the Chinese census. Mattximus (talk) 16:46, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The exact population of Xi'an City will be written in the yearbook, and the information published on the internet may be an approximate number. 蓝叶艾伦 (talk) 00:07, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something is fishy about the census population 

message: Shouldn't we mention that the Xixian New District (西咸新区) has been established in Weiyang District? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 02:50, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Xixian New District