As a Chinese I consider myself quite knowledgeable about Chinese history, yet I always learn something from your video about them.

mosques and temples with golden ginkgo leaves, best combination of the season, especially in Xi'an.

That's a great introduction! If you didn't say it's a mosque, I would've mistaken it for an ancient Chinese Buddhist temple. Splendid yet intriguing at the same time!

Hi Nick, another brilliant piece of footage of Muslim China and its historical link to explain how the beginning of the faith in China. My hometown in Malaysia, the historical town of Malacca had the minarets for the call to prayer, Azaan, with Chinese pagoda features as its cornices. The famous Admiral Cheng Ho, who is both a Muslim and eunuch, travelled the high seas with flotilla as large as 400 ships and they indeed rule the waves. You should make a trip to his birthplace in Yunnan and also where he was buried. He was of the vintage when China was the most powerful nation in the world. Yet he at no stage wanted to subjugate and conquer land to make them China's colonies. So the current West has no fear of its expansion desire and stop feigning the evilness of China, Huawei or not.

Thanks for your video. Can not agree more with you: the Great Mosque is my favorite place in Xi'An. I grew up in Xi'An, now I am in USA. The funny thing is I never visited the Great Mosque until I went back to China visiting my parents. When I was kid, I always passed it on the street at the back of the main prayer hall(that street was the main commercial street 20 years or 25 years ago) without even trying to visit once. The first time I was in the Great Mosque, I was thrilled. It is heaven after you eat 羊肉泡馍 and walked through the markets, then sat in the Great Mosque, feel the history, beauty, peacefulness. It is pure heaven. Thanks again.

wow, you are truely understand Chinese.

In the local Muslim quarter , there's a guy who sells , chicken gyros, in a pita. That dude is my friend, he speaks Chinese Arabic and some Spanish. Used to hook me up with free candy and drinks haha.

Thank you. As someone from Xian. I have learnt quite a bit from you.

This mosque was built in 742 AD but in India a mosque was built in 1528AD called Babari mosque was demolished in 1992 AD by Hindu fundamentalists because of it was the place where Lord Ram was born ..now a big Ram temple is being constructed .

You are doing very well, will have many many more subscriber coming.

Very interesting mosque and history of ancient China .Thank you

It reminds me of another relic in Xi’An, the Xi’an Stele 大秦景教流行中国碑, which documented the early Christianity in China. Also a Tang Dynasty relic.

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When I arrived in Xi'an, I immediately felt the long history of Xi'an, and the feeling was so strong that it brought me mush pressure. At night, i walked in the street, noticed the darkness and a rather few lights in the inner city, that feelings are completely different from the any modern city.

Thx u so much for sharing ur experiences from Xian ...I'm been waiting for years to have a chance to travel to China 🇨🇳 & never got the chance yet...this is impressive & educational 🌸💗🕊🐉💗🌸

Enjoy watching your video, thanks for sharing!

安禄山 was a Sogdian man. The pronunciation of his name in old Chinese is "Loksan An". His real name was Roxan, which was the male version of a common Indo-European name Roxana.

I also went here on my trip to Xi'an 8 years ago! It was really nice and well preserved.

It's so beautiful mosque thank you brother from india 👍👍👍👍👍

What a tranquil and holy place, tks for sharing this history.

I like the walkabouts and little tidbits of information you throw about in the video. Keep them coming!

I missed this when I was in xian oh well I suppose it's an excuse to go back 👍

I really enjoy the historic back ground of how the Chinese Muslims came to be in Xian. History is so fascinating. Thanks for your hard work. 👍✌

Amazing video! And only a quiet and peaceful person can do such a profound study and research. greeting from Itay.

it is amazing how time can do to those old structures. years ago (at least 10 years) i visited this mosque, it just had maintenance a few years back. back then all looks were pretty nice, paints and trees. now i think mosque admin needs to spend money to have another maintenance.

Excellent as always, most impressed by your knowledge of Tang period, thanks from London

Have been to this Mosque.. really beautiful and historical. Had coffee at a Hui Muslim Cafe right outside the mosque.. and Chinese Muslims there were exactly the same as Muslims in any other part of the world. The food in the Muslims quarter was just tooooooooooo delicious! makes my mouth water even thinking about that Halal Xi'an food..

A nice video, a tranquil time, and an underrated channel.

Great tour and story!

Very interesting, you really see the ancient times dripping off the walls. You really succeed in finding the "hidden treasures" off the beaten path.

Mmmm....interesting history.

Very informative. Really enjoyed your short video about the mosque. DOUBLE KUDOS 👍

Thanks 4 the information!

Another great video! Thx.

Thanks for a very impressive production which contains cultural and historical references. This is my first encounter of your clip, I have just subscribed to your program as a result of this beautifully produced video. Please carry on with your good work!

Very interesting. Hope to see more of this type of video.

Perfect fusion of styles. if observing closely, one can still see subtle differences in architecture

Really like this video. Thanks for all the history background you share. You certainly did a lot of research. Really appreciate that.

Thank you sooooo much for this video!!! 👍😊I miss xian a lot...😌

Great content as usual Nick..I could say your knowledges about China cultures and histories are unbelievable..just curious..beside of becoming content creator..what job are you doing now in China Nick ?

Good job Nick. Like!

great video！ thank you

The history of this area was well explained. Cheers mate👍👍👍.

I bought an awesome 'totally real' Northface backpack round the corner from there! Your video is fantastically informative. I love it!! Thanks!

i absolutely want to go here, great video

Enlightening video for me .. Thank you

Very good informative video . Thanks lot .

thank you for that information...

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Interesting video! Thank you!

What's amazing ancient Mosque in Xi'an,I have been Xi'an before just for 3 days, but I missed that place because I don't know. Thanks Nick to provide this video.

Muslim ☪️ empires I've helped always the oppressed...in 🇨🇳China, Korea 🇰🇷, Mongolia 🇲🇳...my history not all that great...but watching ur video sure teach us new legends never heard of before...awesomeness thx u for this

Thank you for the history lessons. If this was a 1hr documentary, I'd watch. need more info on the ancient steele, architecture etc. Have you visited the Wuling Mountain temple?

When you said they have TV's in the mosque, it shocked me, not because mosques can't have TV's, but because I forgot you are shooting this video in the 21st century... It looked so ancient and peaceful for a good 8 minutes, to the point I thought for a moment that you are reporting from the Tang dynasty...

Thanks for the video! I couldnt find the mosque the last time I was in Xian

Cute toque 😄

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It is interesting that soldiers who fought for An Lushan were mostly Han Chinese, although An himself was Sogdian. Soldiers fought against An were mostly ethnic minorities. It was Uyghurs who helped Tang reclaim Xi’an. As an award, they were tacitly allowed to loot Xi’an for three days. Uyghurs enjoyed certain privileges in Xi’an such as property ownership. Sogdians were discriminated and even persecuted after Ann’s rebellion, so they often posed themselves as Uyghurs.

i will visit this xian masjid one day - i like chinese architecture

That An Lushan portrait looks a wee bit like you.

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西安现在好冷的样子啊

واو احلا شيء شفته اليوم ابي اروح ازوره) :

You look like An Lu Shan at 4:15

Oh thanks for the awesome video and also the history , I really enjoy those parts , didnt know about the mercenaries coming over. Thanks for the knowledge. I miss the huiminjie, the local part of course , I'm so sick of the tourist street side hahaha. Take care bud.

I've been to the Muslim quarter several times, and failed to find the great Mosque!

Take note that ancient china doesn't prosecute any Christians or Muslims but in fact they allow them to live in china since the ancient dynasty.

Khanpurdhadda sandukdi....bsti...mongolia...oldest chinese mosque..

This is a wonderful tour and historical explanation of the earliest mosque in China. Very educational. It shows that the Tang dynasty Muslims are very adaptable to Chinese culture. As for the mosque itself, it is a successful blending of the Islamic requirements with traditional Chinese architecture style. But I start to wonder: how similar or different are the Muslims around 700 C.E. to the Muslims these days? May be they are a lot less orthodox, sectarian and "fundamentalist"?

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Nick, pls make a video on xinjang, tell the true story to the west... I wonder how the west would manage the xinjang? Bombs, guns?

Quite interesting. The Mosque in Xian looks like a Buddhist temple.

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Western vloggers have taught me how Great China really is.

我发现你对中国古代历史很有兴趣啊，我也对历史文化和建筑非常感兴趣。但是可能我是中国人吧，我反而对其他国家的古代历史感兴趣，尤其是法国意大利的古代历史，所以我很喜欢刺客信条这个游戏。希望我努力工作攒钱有机会想去那里生活一段时间。

Chinese are very good hearty people in protect the past monuments . Whether they are having faith in God or not but they have given very great respect for History and Historical evidences .

Хуэймин (huei, huihui, huiczu) см. кит.трад. яз. - это один из трех основных титульных наций Современного Китая, живущие на центральном и западном части страны, древний народ Хуэй приняли ислам во времена правления Халифа Харуна -Ар рашида в 680годах н.э. На территории Российской империи этот народ называется - Дунгане.

Probably you can check out some Qadiriyya mosque in 甘肃/青海，they have a very interesting combination of Islam n Taoism.

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Kindly could the resources you used?

Jeddah tower..

不错，你还会了解中国的历史唐朝，

I just learned something new about my country from you :) shame on me. It'd be intereting if you could discuss some of the books u read during these vlogs.

Jeddag tower..

The Chinese Muslims who built this beautiful Masjid centuries ago, have been granted Glorious vision, ever lasting devotion & faith by Allah Almighty Who has created this vast universe and His other beautiful creations for guidance of all humanity to search His true path for this world and hereafter through His Messengers/Prophets i.e. third last Holy Prophet Moses/Musa, second last Holy Prophet Jesus/ Essa and last Holy Prophets Muhammad (peace be upon him). Although all human being must be shown the right path at least once in his/her life by Allah Almighty but remember he/she is free to choice right path for his/her own benefit for this world and hereafter. But also remember no other creatures of Allah Almighty goes against His any command even for a second. If you want to see then judge regular habits of other birds, animal, sun, moon, etc. They always obey the command of Allah Almighty Who is also Most Beneficent, Most Merciful & Most Powerful. ....................... Salam to all brothers & sisters............. Islamabad-Pakistan

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古人的审美和艺术造诣好高啊, 太美了! 现在的中式建筑审美混乱又土又丑.

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This is another great video just to show the world in China so many religions what’s the vet up a centrist centrist years ago they all have freedom to preach but do not interfere with the politics just look at Europe every religious interfere with the politics always a disaster thanks for let the Word know about China’s policy to all different religion they’re free to preach but not preach dangerous idea against the government which is true for the rest of the world which every country did that

Your slight resemblance to An Lushan is uncanny. Reincarnated to visit former ChangAn ( Xian ) ! Unsolved mystery. Haha.

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Chinese old mosque istana ul ramul...chinese old mosque...

Where I grew up is close to a few temples you have shown us in your videos. It’s a absolutely shame! 😓 Regarding visiting this temple, as a non-Muslim woman, should I wear hijab in order to visit? or did you see any non-Muslim women there? I am curious about the dressing code and policy in the temple.

Oldest mosque in china..

Mongolia...

kind of BBC 有BBC内味了。

Kandahaar.. pashtushtaan....mongolia...

Kandahaar paranja uzbekistaan chinas mosque...

看来西安和宁夏差不多 已经冷出翔了