Religion Xi'an majorly believes in is Buddhism and Taoism, and a small majority of them believed in the new arriving Zoroastrianism, Nestorianism and Manichaeism.

A popular cuisine from Xi'an on the Silk Road was their tradition of eating noodles, where it evolve into other dishes around the world currently. Famous traders like Marco Polo brought noodles from Xi'an to Italy, where after changes, is now known as pasta. There are other dishes from.

The traditional Chinese music from Xi'an grew so popular that foreign orchestra, dancers and singer joined in to create a diverse culture of art on the Silk Road. Musicians from Xi'an also traveled around the Silk Road, spreading their traditions to even more countries.

Paper made the Silk Road a lot more convenient as it makes collecting things or improving one's knowledge easier as they can write it down.

Paper was first discovered in the Han dynasty, and was very popular in the Silk Road, with lots of different places using it.

The silk road is also called a 'friendship canal' as it has connected many places and created relationship between the west and the east, they also make a diverse place for people to share their culture. The Silk Road have lots of different people who stepped foot on it, for example emperors, traders, merchants, prisoners...

As Xi'an opened to other countries through the Silk Road, it's economic and trading improve and Xi'an was one of the biggest trading port as it is close to many rivers making silk production and other goods like tea, gems, paper, gun powder etc. They are also able to trade their knowledge and religion to other places.

If Xi'an during the Han dynasty didn't let Zhang Qian go to the west, the Silk Road would not have existed. And if the Silk Road did not exist, the world may not be a diverse connected and instead a mess with lots of wars, and a not improving world (no modern machines to make life convenient).

So to conclude without the influence of Emperor Wu wanting to open up economics, Xi'an and parts of Asia may not be a part of the Silk Road. And Xi'an going to the west is one of the greatest impacts the world have ever seen

Silk are made by silk worm cocoons, and silk fabric has a shiny and soft look and texture, and usually having patterns of dragons, which can be seen in Buddhism, Taoism and confucianism. Dragons are usually shown as power, good luck and strength in Chinese cultures.

Their background are usually a white colour, with patterns of dragons and Chinese flowers on it, both having deep Chinese culture. Dragons as I mentioned before can be seen in many major religion and represents power and strength, and also believed to bring good luck.

Different colour flowers are different colours, for example two of the most popular coloured flowers arered or pink represents celebrations and happiness, blue means honesty and uniqueness.

At the time ancient China separated into meat eating Buddhist and vegetarian Buddhist, a monk said “I hope that merciful Bodhisattva will give us some meat.” As the monk said hat he saw a bunch of flying goose, and they died in front of the monk. And this is how the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was built and since then Monk stopped eating meat.

The Xi'an city wall are gates that every traders, merchants... has to get through when entering Xi'an. It is also act as a protection to the city, where it is a somewhat "custom" on the silk road, which can stop dangerous people from entering the city.

The Xi'an city wall is one of the most well preserved city wall in the world.

Xi'an developed Buddhism by changing the way monks eats. Monks now are vegetarians due to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

Xi'an also developed loyal monks who are willing to travel a long way to India to get the Indian transcript of Buddhism.

Xi'an is the start of Daoism and chieved divinity by doing Daoist practices.

During the Han dynasty, the emperor made Confucianism an official religion and there are schools that taught Confucianism